News

  • [03/07/2024] Congratulations to Xin, Ke, Xiang, and Qian for their work on learning LSB functions (conditionally) accepted to ISMB 2024!
  • [03/07/2024] Congratulations to Qian and Qimin for their Aletsch work that assembles multiple RNA-seq samples being (conditionally) accepted to ISMB 2024!
  • [12/22/2023] Congratulations to Tasifa, Qian, and Carl, for having their work on a new assembler for circular RNAs (named TERRACE) accepted to RECOMB 2024!
  • [12/21/2023] Our work on studying the divergence of annotations and its impact on transcript assembly has been published in PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations to Qimin!
  • [07/17/2023] Qimin’s poster about her work on studying different annotations for transcript assembly was accepted to WABI 2023; congratulations!
  • [07/13/2023] Two (short) papers have been accepted to ACM-BCB 2023. Congratulations to Leran, Ke, and Xiang!
  • [06/01/2023] Zhezheng Song, MS student of CSE at Penn State, joined us as a graduate research assistant. Welcome Zhezheng!
  • [05/24/2023] The entire group participated in and helped the organization of the 2023 workshop on emerging methods for sequence analysis. Tasfia gave a great talk about her work on assembling circular RNAs!
  • [04/26/2023] Xiang passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations!
  • [04/11/2023] The SubseqHash work has been accepted at ISMB/ECCB 2023 (conference proceeding). Congratulations to Xiang, Qian, and Ke!
  • [01/09/2023] Sanchal Thakkar, an MS student graduated from Penn State, joined us as a graduate research assistant. Welcome Sanchal!
  • [10/17/2022] Welcome Dr. Chenglin Fan, joining us as a postdoc! Chenglin obtained his PhD from University of Texas, Dallas, followed by one-year postdoc training at Sorbonne University, France.
  • [09/06/2022] Congratulations to Qimin on being one of the winners of the annual CSE outstanding TA award!
  • [09/01/2022] Welcome Dr. Xin Yuan! Xin graduated from Waseda University, Japan, and joined us as a postdoc in CSE and Biology.
  • [06/13/2022] Our work titled locality-sensitive bucketing functions has been accepted to WABI’22. Congratulations, Ke!
  • [05/14/2022] Our Scallop2 work has been accepted for a talk at HitSeq COSI of ISMB’22. Qimin will present this work. Six members of the lab will travel for this conference.
  • [04/26/2022] Carl passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations Carl!
  • [04/21/2022] Congratulations to Austin on being accepted to BG PhD program!
  • [04/14/2022] Qimin passed her comprehensive exam. Congratulations Qimin!
  • [03/14/2022] Mayank successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations Mayank!
  • [02/16/2022] Our Scallop2 paper has been accepted for publication in Nature Computational Science (in press). Congratulations to Qimin and Qian!
  • [02/03/2022] We received the NSF CAREER award for developing allele-specific assembly methods. Grateful to the NSF for the generous support!
  • [09/20/2021] Dr. Ke Chen from U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee has joined our group as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Welcome Ke!
  • [03/01/2021] Xiang successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations Xiang!
  • [02/12/2021] We received an NIH R01 grant for developing efficient algorithm to assemble large-scale RNA-seq data. Grateful to the NIH for the generous support!
  • [01/20/2021] Mayank Murali, from CSE MS program, has joined our group. Welcome Mayank!
  • [12/11/2020] Raj Pandey, from CSE MS program, has joined our group. Welcome Raj!
  • [09/01/2020] Carl (Xiaofei) Zang, from BG PhD program, has joined our group. Welcome Carl!
  • [06/02/2020] We received an NSF grant to develop computational methods to construct regulatory infrastructure using single-cell RNA-seq data. Thanks to the NSF for the generous support!
  • [10/31/2019] Xiang Li, from CSE MS program, has joined our group. Welcome Xiang!
  • [07/30/2019] Qimin Zhang, from CSE PhD program, has joined our group. Welcome Qimin!
  • [11/16/2018] Qian Shi, from CSE PhD program, has joined our group. Welcome Qian!
  • [07/01/2018] Our research group at CSE has started!