Professor & Vice Chair for Research and Division Chief of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
Director of the Center for AI & Bioinformatics Immuno-Oncology (CATION) at the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology (PIIO) and OSUCCC
Research focuses on developing cutting-edge deep learning methods for single-cell and spatial omics data
Aims to uncover biological mechanisms such as gene regulation, cell-cell interactions, and cellular senescence
Integrates machine learning and graph representation learning (e.g., GNNs, graph transformers, graph Fourier transform) into bioinformatics