Lab members
Current Students
Yuheng Chen. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2023 -- present.
Ziyue Tan. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2023 -- present.
Zitong Chao. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2023 -- present.
Yeqin Zeng. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2023 -- present.
Rijiang Zhou. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2023 -- present.
Xinrui Huang. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2022 -- present.
Tianhao Chen. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2022 -- present.
Hongrui Wang. Ph. D. student, Sept. 2022 -- present (jointly supervised with Prof. Yang WANG).
Xin Xu. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2022 -- present.
Zhiwei Wang. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2021 -- present. [Homepage]
Fa Zhang. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2021 -- present.
Zhiyuan YU. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- present.
Current Postdoc
Xianghong HU. Postdoc. Sept. 2019 -- present.
Xiaomeng Wan. Postdoc. Sept 2023 -- present.
Fan ZHANG. Postdoc. Oct 2023 -- present.
Past PhD students
Shunkang ZHANG. Ph.D. student. Sept. 2019 -- April, 2024.
Ph.D. Thesis. "Enhancing Performance and Efficiency in Learned Indexes and Adaptive Gradient Compression with Bandwidth Awareness in Distributed Training".
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Nvidia.
Gefei WANG. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023 (jointly supervised with Prof. Yang WANG). [Homepage]
Ph.D. Thesis "Deep Generative Model Learning and 3D Construction of Spatial Transcriptomics with Deep Neural Networks".
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Yale University.
Jia ZHAO. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023. [Homepage]
Ph.D. Thesis "Computational and Statistical Methods for Data Integration and Causal Inference". [Slides]
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Yale University.
Yueqi QIAN. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023. (jointly supervised with Prof. Wenbo Wang)
Ph.D. Thesis "Flexible and accurate methods for estimation and inference of Gaussian graphical models with applications".
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Volmart, Hong Kong.
Cong ZHENG. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023.
Ph.D. Thesis "Options Dynamic Hedging and Optimal Order Execution with Reinforcement Learning".
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: 4 Alpha, Hong Kong.
Jiafa HE. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023.
Ph.D. Thesis "Integrating Multiple Structured Data with AI for Medical Images and Financial Markets".'
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: 4 Alpha, Hong Kong.
Xiaomeng WAN. Ph.D. student, Sept. 2019 -- August, 2023.
Ph.D. Thesis "A Unified Framework for Integrating Spatial and Single-cell Transcriptomics Data Using Deep Generative Models".
Postdoc at Yanglab HKUST.
Jiashun XIAO, Ph.D. student (Sept 2018 -- August 2022)
Ph.D. Thesis "Improving association mapping and polygenic prediction in trans-ancestry analysis". [pdf]
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Research Scientist (Independent PI), Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data.
Mingxuan CAI, Ph.D. student (Sept 2018 -- June 2022) [Homepage]
Ph.D. Thesis "Scalable Statistical Methods for Cross-population Risk Prediction and Integrative Analysis of Multi-omics Data". [pdf]
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Tenure Tracking Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong.
Jingsi MING. Ph.D. student (Sept 2015 -- August 2018) and Postdoc (Sept. 2018 -- August 2020).
Past MPhil students
Xinyi YU, M.Phil student (Sept 2020 -- June 2022)
MPhil Thesis "A Powerful and Adaptive Latent Model for Prioritizing Risk Variants with Functional Annotations".
First Job after Yanglab@HKUST: Algorithm Engineer, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data.
Alumni
Mingwei DAI. Research Assistant, 2015 -- March, 2019 (Assistant Professor at Statistical centre, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics).
Visiting Students
Jia ZHAO. Visiting UG Student from Beijing Normal University, Dec 2018 -- Feb 2019.
Gefei WANG. Visiting UG Student from Beijing Normal University, Dec 2018 -- Feb 2019.
Xiaomeng WAN. Visiting UG Student from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Feb 2019 -- May 2019.
Shunkang ZHANG. Visiting UG Student from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Sept 2018 -- Dec 2018.
Xu LIAO. Visiting UG Student from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, March 2019 -- May 2019 (Ph.D. student at Duke-NUS, started in Sept. 2019 ).
Yuan GAO. Visiting PG Student from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, July 2018 -- Jan 2019.
Yilun ZHANG. Visiting UG Student from Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Nov 2018 -- Jan 2019.
Chao ZHOU. Visiting PG student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, March 2018 -- August 2018.
Chang SU. Visiting UG student, June 2018 -- July 2018 (Ph.D. student, Yale University, started in Sept 2018).
Hao PENG. Visiting PG student from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, March 2018 -- August 2018.
Group photos
September 4, 2022. Happy Mid-Autumn Day and welcome new members Mr. Tianhao Chen, Ms. Xinrui Huang, Ms. Hongrui Wang and Mr. Xin Xu to our team. We are missing two members Dr. Xianghong HU and Mr. Shunkang Zhang who are not in Hong Kong.
September 21, 2021. Happy Mid-Autumn Day and welcome new members Mr. Zhiwei Wang and Mr. Fa Zhang to our team. We are missing three members Dr. Xianghong HU, Mr. Shunkang Zhang and Mr. Zhiyuan Yu who are not in Hong Kong.
HKUST. Aug., 30, 2019. Welcome new members to our team!
HKUST, Nov. 20, 2018. Congregation. Congratulation to Jingsi for receiving her PhD degree in three years!
HKUST, July 19, 2018. Miss Chang SU (from Sun Yat Sen University, to be a PhD student at Yale University), Miss Di WANG (from Tianjin University), Miss Tian XIE (from Xiamen University), and Miss Jia ZHAO (Beijing Normal University) visited us in summer research program, 2018. Meanwhile, Mr. Yuan GAO (from Xi'an Jiao Tong University), Mr. Chao ZHOU (from Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Mr. Hao PENG (from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) were coming to our group as visiting postgraduate students).
Albert Park, Auckland, New Zealand, Dec, 14, 2017.
Tsinghua University, May, May, 20, 2017.