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• May 2025, humbled for being selected to the MIT Technology Review, Innovators Under 35 (TR35) China, 2024. Thanks to the recognition on the works from our group in the recent three years!
• Mar 2025, thanks to Nature, Science, and MIT Technology Review for highlighting our works! RhoFold+ and RhoDesign are featured by Nature technology features and Science Expert Voices. MIT Technology Review reported the works from our group. Humble to be listed as Asia-Pacific Leaders Under 30 during APEC-2024.
• Nov 2024, thanks to Nature Biotechnology and Nature Methods for highlighting our works! DHR is featured by Research Briefing in Nature Biotechnology and Research Highlights in Nature Methods. RhoFold+ is featured by Research Briefing in Nature Methods.
• Nov 2024, RhoFold+ & RNA-FM is published in Nature Methods. And RhoDesign is published in Nature Computational Science. They can perform RNA 3D structure modeling and reverse design. Congratulations to all the collaborators!
• Aug 2024, DHR is published in Nature Biotechnology. Congratulations to all the collaborators! Of note, initially, Liang did the project as his undergraduate final year project in our group. With our joint efforts and overcoming lots of obstacles, we eventually made it to Nature Biotechnology. It was also sent out for peer review in Nature during the process. Tons of stories behind this work.
• Summer 2024, invited to visit Prof. James Collins group at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Wyss Institute at Harvard as a Visiting Scholar, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as an Associated Scientist.
• Jun 2024, humble to receive the Department Exemplary Teaching Awards-2024, CSE, CUHK. Congratulate Yimin Fan, a Ph.D. student in our group, for obtaining the ECCB-24 student travel fellowship.
• Feb 2024, congratulate Dr. Tiantian Zhu, a postdoc in our group, for joining in Shenzhen University as an Assistant Professor! Congratulate Yimin Fan, a Ph.D. student in our group, for obtaining the RECOMB-24 student travel fellowship.
• Nov 2023, USPNet is accepted by Nature Computational Science. Congratulations, Junbo, Qinze and Shawn! Of note, Junbo started working on the project when he was Year-2 for Undergraduate Summer Research Project in 2022. The work is accepted when he is Year-4 UG. What an achievement!
• May 2023, our joint work with AGIS, KAUST, and UChicago on [modeling human complex diseases using EHRs] has been published in Nature Computational Science.
• Summer 2023, invited to visit Prof. James Collins group at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Wyss Institute at Harvard as a Visiting Scholar, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as an Associated Scientist.
• Dec 2022, our joint teams with Zelixir, AICHEMY_RNA and AICHEMY_RNA2, won the Championship in the CASP15-RNA 3D structure prediction competition!
• Oct 2022, TAPE is accepted by Nature Communications. Congratulations, Yanshuo and Yixuan! They started working on this project when they were Year-3 undergraduates. And the work is accepted 16 months after that. What an achievement! Here is the story behind the work (in Chinese) .
• May 2022, humbled for being selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list – Class of 2022.
• Summer 2022, visit Prof. James Collins group at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Wyss Institute at Harvard as a Visiting Scholar, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as an Associated Scientist.
• Jan 2022, two undergraduate students, Tingyang Yu and Jiuming Wang, get the Professor Charles K. Kao Research Exchange Scholarship-2022 Summer, which is highly prestigious and competitive. Congratulations to them!
• Dec 2021, CLMB is accepted by RECOMB-22. Congratulations, Pengfei, Zhengyuan, and Yixuan! Pengfei did the project as his Bachelor Thesis under my supervision. Glad to see it accepted by the RECOMB, which only let in around 45 oral presentations every year. See you in San Diego in May 2022!
• Nov 2021, our survey on the protein-RNA interaction prediction with deep learning methods is accepted by Briefing in Bioinformatics (IF=11.620). Congratulations, Junkang, Siyuan, and Licheng!
• Sep 2021, Tingyang YU's work is selected to receive the Best Project Award in Summer Research Project-2021 of CUHK. She was working on single-cell multi-omics integration with me. Congratulations, Tingyang!
• May 2021, Siyuan's work has been accepted by Applied Energy (IF=9.746). He did the work with me during summer in 2020. Congratulations, Siyuan!
• Jan 2021, HMD-ARG accepted by Microbiome (IF=14.650). Thanks to all the collaborators for their great work!
• Dec 2020, invited to give a talk in Tencent.
• Dec 2020, invited to give a talk in CUHK(SZ).
• 2020, join CUHK as an assistant professor by the end of 2020.
• July 2020, defended Ph.D. successfully! Ph.D. thesis: Towards Structured Prediction in Bioinformatics with Deep Learning, Defense slides.
• July 2020, gave a highlight talk in ISMB-20, discussing E2Efold [bilibili,YouTube].
• May 2020, invited to give a talk in CityU Hong Kong.
• May 2020, invited to give a talk in CUHK.