Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics (March 2023 -- present); Academic Editor, PLOS Computational Biology (September 2024 -- present); Associate Editor, Genetics (January 2025 -- present). Recent Lab News: Xianghong Hu's AJHG paper selected as Best of AJHG 2024; Tianhao Chen and Xin Xu's GPAS paper accepted at NeurlPS 2025; Fan Zhang published a paper in Nature Communications, August 2025; Zhiyuan Yu passed his PhD Defense in August 2025; Jingsi Ming, Jia Zhao, Gefei Wang contributed to the mouse lemur project; Fa Zhang passed his PhD Defense in July 2025; Zhiwei Wang passed his PhD defense in June 2025; Xin Xu published LLM for undergraduate Physics in ICML 2025; Xin Xu published LLM for math papers in ICLR 2025; Yuheng Chen published UCS paper in Small methods.
Research Experience
Professor at the Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Director of BDBI (Big Data Bio-Intelligence Lab) at HKUST; Project Coordinator of X-GPU supported by the RGC Collaborative Research Fund; Faculty member at State Key lab at HKUST: AI/omics analysis; Faculty member at Big Data Institute at HKUST; Faculty member at Financial Technology at HKUST; Affiliated faculty for the Risk Management and Business Intelligence program.
Education
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Background
Research Interests: Statistical Machine Learning for Data Science, Empirical Bayes for Computer Age Statistical Inference, Scalable AI Algorithms, Statistical Genetics and Genomics. Professional fields include Big Data Analysis, Bio-Intelligence, etc.