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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am also a part of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology, the Personalized Nutrition Initiative, and the Microbial Systems Initiative at UIUC. Previously, I was a postdoc researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and my B.S. in Mathematics from Zhejiang University. 

Our lab studies how to extract scientifically meaningful structure from complex data by developing modern statistical and machine learning methods, with a recent emphasis on self-supervised learning. We pursue these questions in biomedical applications, including multi-omics, imaging, and virtual cell systems based on whole-cell models. 

Email: shuleiw at illinois dot edu