Congratulations to Haiyi for the acceptance of his paper “Interpretable Factors in scRNA-seq Data with Disentangled Generative Models” to the 20th IEEE BIBE* 2020 conference. The paper describes a new method, Factor Variational Inference (FactorVI), which learns independent data generative factors of single cell RNA-seq data in an unsupervised way. FactorVI learns the …
Our lab moved to the new modern Murdoch building. This move, which affects all “dry labs” in the department, was initially planned for March, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are very excited with the move to the new building, which is brighter and accommodates more …
Congratulations to Daniel Yuan for becoming a T32 Cancer Immunology fellow after competing in a very selective process. His project involves both the development of causal learning algorithms and their application to study cancer immunotherapy.
Vineet’s paper, which was presented last year in the ACM SIGKDD 2019 BioKDD workshop, is now accepted for publication in the special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The paper is entitled “A pipeline for integrated theory and data-driven modeling of genomic and clinical data” and deals …
Congratulations to Haopu Yang, a Tsinghua scholar from our group, for the acceptance of a paper he co-authored by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. This paper, which is a collaboration with George Kitsios, MD, is investigating whether respiratory tract microbiota are associated with host inflammation and clinical outcomes of acute …