{"id":821,"date":"2026-08-13T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/?p=821"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:24:29","slug":"sophia-has-successfully-defended-her-dissertation-congratulations-dr-hu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Sophia has successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Hu!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sophia Hu has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, <em>\u201cDecoding Cell State Transitions Through the Lens of the Cell Cycle.\u201d<\/em> During her Ph.D. in the Xing Lab and the Joint CMU\u2013Pitt Computational Biology Program, Sophia developed computational approaches to study cell-state transition dynamics from single-cell data, with a particular focus on how diverse biological processes are coupled with the cell cycle. 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