Nov. 2023:
My two PhD students Rituparna Khan and Liting Zhang were both featured in the CS news. Click the link above at each name for more details.
Aug. 2025:
Both Rituparna Khan and Liting Zhang graduated with PhDs. Ritu is working for Amway. Liting is a tenure-track assistant professor in UWF. Congratulations to both!
Aug. 2025:
Both Rituparna Khan and Liting Zhang graduated with their PhDs, and attended their doctoral hooding ceremony on Aug. 1st. Congratulations Ritu and Liting!
Liting will be a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in University of West Florida.
I was awarded an NSF grant (~$290,000) in a collaborative proposal with Dr. Hongmei Chi in FAMU. Thanks to Hongmei, Xiaonan, Weikuan, my parents, my husband and son, and NSF. Praise the Lord (Psalm 23, Psalm 55:22).
Feb. 2025:
Rituparna Khan successfully passed her PhD thesis defense today (Feb. 18th). Congratulations Ritu!
Dec. 2024:
My PhD student Rituparna Khan will go to Amway as a postdoctoral associate. She will work on genomic sequencing analysis for the products that Amway produces.
Nov. 2024:
Tina Tian defended her honors thesis.
Sep. 2024:
My two graduate students Liting Zhang and Rituparna Khan are both graduating in May 2025. Liting is looking for a tenure-track faculty position. Ritu is looking for an industry or teaching position.
June. 2024:
I attended one of NIH's study section as an early career reviewer.
Liting's SCCNAInfer paper was published on Bioinformatics.
May. 2024:
Tina Tian received Helen Louise Lee Undergraduate Research Award which provided her with a $1,000 IDEA grant. Congratulations Tina!
Tian Tian is going to defend her honors thesis the end of this year, with me as her supervisor.
Apr. 2024:
Liting Zhang received Ermine M. Owenby Tarvel Award from FSU College of Arts & Sciences. She will present two posters in RECOMB.
Liting Zhang is awarded Outstanding RA Award.
Andy Gonzalez joined our lab. Welcome Andy!
I will start a collaborative project with Maglab. Krishna Saketh Kamadana will work on the project.
Feb. 2024:
Liting Zhang has two posters accepted by RECOMB'24.
Our collaborative paper with Dr. Xin Maizie Zhou's lab in Vanderbilt University has been accepted by RECOMB-seq: CNVeil enables accurate and robust tumor subclone identification and copy number estimation from single-cell DNA sequencing data. Here is bioRxiv link to the paper. Liting is a co-author in this paper.
Jan. 2024:
Rituparna Khan is featured on this issue of SPECTRUM magacine.
Nov. 2023:
The two journal papers we submitted in Aug. 2022 were both accepted, one by PLoS Computational Biology, the other by Genome Research.
Rituparna Khan received two travel awards (Ermine M. Owenby, Jr. Travel Award from the FSU College of Arts & Sciences, and FSU Congress of Graduate students) for presenting her work in ASHG 2023.
Oct. 2023:
Shrey Choksi joined my lab as a PhD student. Welcome Shrey!
Tina Tian, Teja Potu and Bhavya Shivakumaraiah joined my lab to do research with me. Welcome Tina, Teja and Bhavya!
Aug. 2023:
I started collaborating Dr. Weikuan Yu on a metagenomics project. We are co-advising Joydhriti Choudhury.
Apr. 2023:
I was awarded 2022 Oustanding Graduate Teaching Award in CS department at FSU.
Feb. 2023:
I was awarded CTSI Precision Health Pilot @ UF. ($50,000 for 2023-2024, co-PI).
Aug. 2022:
We submitted two journal papers: "Assessing the Performance of Methods for Cell Clustering from Single-cell DNA Sequencing Data" and "SCsnvcna: Integrating SNVs and CNAs on a phylogenetic tree from single-cell DNA sequencing data".
July. 2022:
I was awarded Small Grant @ FSU. ($3,000 for 2022)
Apr. 2022:
Our single cell simulator paper was pusblished in Bioinformatics.
I gave a talk to Scientific Computing Colloquium @ FSU.
May 2021:
Welcome three graduate students Liting Zhang, Gyanendra Shrestha and Rituparna Khan join the lab.
Mar. 2021:
Our paper "Theoretical Analysis Reveals Cost and Benefit of Proofreading in Coronavirus Genome Replication" has been published on the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations, my beloved husband!
Feb. 2021:
I am awarded the Multidisciplinary Support Grant (co-PI) together with Dr. Yue Wang @ FSU. (total $25,000 for one year).
I am awarded the First Year Assistant Professor Grant (FYAP) @ FSU. ($20,000 for summer, 2021)
We invited Dr. Mohammad El-Kebir from UIUC for a talk at the CS Colloquium @ FSU.
Dec. 2020:
I am awarded the Planning Grant @ FSU. ($25,000 for 2021)
Nov. 2020:
I gave a talk to the CS Colloquium @ FSU. The topic is "Cancer phylogenetics: where computer science attacks cancer".
Sep. 2020:
We invited Dr. Mark Chaisson from USC for a talk at the CS Colloquium @ FSU.
Aug. 2020:
I gave a talk to the Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series @ FSU. The topic is "Using single-cell sequencing technologies to understand heterogenetiy in cancer".
Mar. 2020:
I accepted the offer from CS@FSU. Will join the lovely team in Fall, 2020.
Nov. 2019:
Present the single-cell benchmark poster on MBI workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer, Columbus, Ohio.
Oct. 2019:
Present the single-cell benchmark poster on 29th Annual Keck Research Conference (Oct. 11th), 2019 Rice Data Science Conference (Oct. 14-15th) and ASHG (Oct. 15-19th). All are in Houston, TX.
Awarded travel fellowship by MBI workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer.
Aug. 2019:
Selected as the Rising Stars in EECS hosted by UIUC, 2019.
Selected to be part of the Rice CS news.
Jul. 2019:
Our single-cell benchmark abstract is accepted by ASHG 2019, 29th Annual Keck Research Conference, 2019 Rice Data Science Conference and MBI workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer.
May 2019:
I am excited to mentor my first (summer) undergraduate student Rufino Oregon in Texas A&M University.
Nov. 2018:
Awarded the Computational Cancer Biology Trainee Program, 2019-2020