Dr. Shibiao Wan (traditional Chinese: 萬時彪，simplified Chinese: 万时彪) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Co-Director for the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) PhD Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC. With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in prestigious journals like Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals like Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, Discover Oncology, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals like Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Oncology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes. He is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >70 prestigious journals including Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, Cancer Research, Genome Biology, and Genome Medicine. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025 by Springer Nature, the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.

Before joining UNMC, Dr. Wan was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, one of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in US. In St. Jude, Dr. Wan is mainly responsible for developing machine learning based methods for single cell analysis, multi-omics analysis, all kinds of transcriptomics analysis and proteomics analysis. Meanwhile, Dr. Wan has established extensive collaborations with principal investigators and scientists in various biomedical backgrounds including hematology, cancer biology, genomics, developmental neurobiology, immunology, pathology, pharmaceutical sciences, etc, by providing bioinformatics analysis for treating childhood cancers and other catastrophic pediatric diseases. Before joining St. Jude, Dr. Wan was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Genetics and Institute of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) during 2017-2019. In UPenn, Dr. Wan was mainly working in bioinformatics, computational biology and machine learning, especially in single-cell analysis and algorithm development, genomics/epigenomics, genetics/epigenetics, gene regulation and proteomics. Before joining UPenn, Dr. Wan was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University during 2016-2017. In Princeton, he was mainly working in machine learning, bioinformatics, genomic privacy and compressive privacy. Dr. Wan got his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014 and B.Eng. from Wuhan University in 2010.  Before joining Princeton University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Wan was a visiting scholar to The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Virginia Tech in 2013.


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