Guan’ao received the Dissertation Year Fellowship
Congratulations to Guan’ao Yan for receiving the the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
Jessica’s work on generalized Pearson correlation squares was finally published in JASA
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!
Christy’s scDEED paper was published in Nature Communications
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’s scReadSim paper was published in Nature Communications
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!
Xinzhou was a nominee of the 2023 UCLA Postdoctoral Scholars Award
Congratulations to Xinzhou! https://grad.ucla.edu/life-at-ucla/events/2023-postdoctoral-scholars-mentors-awards-ceremony/
Guan’ao won the JXTX + CSHL 2023 Genome Informatics Scholarship
The JXTX Foundation and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced the 2023 Genome Informatics Scholarship. JXTX and CSHL will provide travel support to outstanding graduate students to attend the 2023 CSHL Genome Informatics Conference. Congratulations Guan’ao!
Kexin and Heather received their Ph.D. in Summer 2023
Congratulations to Kexin and Heather!
Dongyuan received the Dissertation Year Fellowship; Guanao received the inaugural Don Ylvisaker Award for the Best Practice of Statistics; Kexin received the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award; Christy received the ISMB Travel Fellowship
Our group members won multiple awards. Congratulations to all! Dongyuan received the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship. Guan’ao received UCLA Department of Statistics’ inaugural Don Ylvisaker Award for the Best Practice of Statistics. Kexin received UCLA Department of Statistics’ Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award. Christy received the ISCB Travel Fellowship to attend ISMB/ECCB 2023.
Dongyuan’s scDesign3 paper was published in Nature Biotechnology
Dongyuan developed scDesign3, the latest version of our simulator for single-cell and spatial omics data. The work was published in Nature Biotechnology. Here is the UCLA News. Congratulations!
Qingyang received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Qingyang Wang was selected to receive the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship will provide Qingyang with three years of financial support as well as access to opportunities for professional development available to NSF-supported graduate students. Congratulations to Qingyang!