Jessica has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowship is one of the most prestigious honors in the U.S., supporting individuals who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship or creative work across the sciences and arts. This year marks the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. Jessica was selected for her pioneering research at the […]
Catherine was supported by the SFI-NSF student mobility programme to visit us for six weeks from early August to mid September. During the visit, she worked on a project on interrogating gene expression patterns in spatial trascriptomics data. It was a pleasure having Catherine with us this summer!
Jessica was recognized as a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar, placing her in the top 0.05% of scholars worldwide in the RNA-Seq field over the past five years. She would like to thank the tremendous work of the group members for this achievement.
Tianyi received his Ph.D. and the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award at the 2024 Department of Statistics and Data Science Commencement. Congratulations!
The Warren Alpert Computational Biology and AI Network Fellowship will support Christy Lee and Pan Liu to attend the Computational Genomics Summer Institute for two years and provide training opportunities. Congratulations to Christy and Pan!
Congratulations to Guan’ao Yan for receiving the the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
In this JASA paper, we generalized the squared Pearson correlation to capture a mixture of linear dependences between two real-valued variables, with or without an index variable that specifies the line memberships. When the index variable is not available, we developed a K-lines clustering algorithm. Thanks Heather for helping develop the gR2 R pakcage!
In collabortion with Dr. Lucy Xia at HKUST, Christy co-developed scDEED for detecting dubious 2D embeddings by non-linear dimension reduction methods (such as t-SNE and UMAP) and optimizing the hyperparameters of these methods. The work was published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
Guan’ao developed scReadSim, a single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq read simulator that allows user-specified ground truths and generates synthetic sequencing reads (in a FASTQ or BAM file) by mimicking real data. The work was published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Xinzhou! https://grad.ucla.edu/life-at-ucla/events/2023-postdoctoral-scholars-mentors-awards-ceremony/