Congratulations to Chenxin who has been selected as the recipient of the Palevsky Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic school year. This award recognizes her exceptional accomplishments and contributions.
Chenxin and Changhu’s perspective paper Beyond differential expression: Differential variability as an underappreciated axis in transcriptomics, was published in Cell Systems. Congrats to them!
Chenxin received UCLA Department of Statistics’ Donald Ylvisaker Award for the Best Practice of Statistics. Congratulations to them!
Congratulations to Changhu on receiving the Chen Hu Endowed Trainee Travel Fund Award, which supports trainee participation in scientific conferences and professional development opportunities.
Congratulations to Jessica on being named 2026 Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). The ASA Fellow designation is one of the association’s highest honors, recognizing outstanding professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to advancing statistical science. Read the official announcement here
Jessica has been named to the 2026 Class of ISCB Fellows by the International Society for Computational Biology. This prestigious honor recognizes her exceptional contributions to biostatistics and computational biology, specifically her groundbreaking leadership in developing statistical frameworks for single-cell and spatial omics data. The 2026 Class will be officially recognized this July at the […]
Jessica has received a four-year, $2.4M NIH R01 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop statistical methods for generating in-silico controls and pseudo-replicates for single-cell and spatial omics studies. The project will offer a practical way to assess result robustness when true biological replicates cannot be obtained and will provide an […]
At the 2025 American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jessica delivered the Spiegelman Award Lecture and was recognized with the Mortimer Spiegelman Award. The award is presented annually by the APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics Section to a statistician under the age of 40 who has made significant contributions to the […]