Weixiong has a paper accepted to AAAI-2026, titled “MUG: Meta-path-aware Universal Heterogeneous Graph Pre-Training”
Welcome Diao Xin to the lab as Postdoc
Yan Zhu’s work on a language model for PM2.5 and human health has been accepted to Environmental Science & Technology (a top journal in environmental science)
Weixiong Zhang will give a talk on Noncanonical circular RNAs as cancer diagnostic biomarkers at the 1st Asia Pacific Precision Oncology Conference on 01/11/25
Weixiong Zhang will give a keynote talk at The 10th Big Data Forum for Life and Health Sciences on 15/10/25
Chunyu’s paper, Adaptive control of dynamic networks, has been accepted to IEEE Trans on Network Science and Engineering
Tan Yejun, an RA in the lab, received both Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS) and PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship (PPPFS)
Weixiong has a paper accepted to ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. The title is ‘Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks using Self-supervised Reciprocally Contrastive Learning’
Welcome Huang Yin to the Lab as Research Fellow and Pan Chunyu as Postdoc!
Welcome Chen Junyi to the Lab as RAP!
Shulan has been promoted to Principal Research Fellow, the highest rank in the research track. Congratulations, Shulan!
We built our first foundation model on genomics, called dnaGrinder. A preprint of the manuscript on dnaGrinder is available at arXiv
Welcome Edao Abebe, Li Yixin, Han Nan, Wang Zhenqian, Wang Yuchuan and Zhang Jie to the Lab as PhD students!
Weixiong has been appointed to the position of Associate Director of PolyU Academy of Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR)
Welcome Zhang Chi to the Lab as PhD student!
Edao Abebe received Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS)
Weixiong has a paper accepted to IJCAI-24. The title of the paper: Generalized taxonomy-guided graph neural networks
Weixiong published a paper with IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. The title of the paper: Analyzing heterogeneous networks with missing attributes by unsupervised contrastive learning
Welcome Tu Yue to the Lab as Postdoc!
Welcome Fu Qinghui and Ma Ke to the Lab as PhD students!
Wang Zhenqian, a new coming student, received PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship
Weixiong was selected into the list of “Top 2% of Global Scientists”
Our paper on A neuroimaging-based precision medicine framework for depression was published online with Asian J Psychiatry
Ma Ke, a new coming student, received PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship
Wang Xin, a new coming postdoc, received PolyU Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
Our paper on Total network controllability analysis discovers explainable drugs for Covid-19 treatment was published in Biology Direct
Shulan was promoted to Senior Research Fellow and took the position of STEM Lab manager
Our paper on cancer-keeper genes as therapeutic targets published online with iScience, a Cell Press journal
Weixiong, as project PC, received RGC Strategic Target Grant (STG) funding (five years and $37 million) to develop AI, genomic and biomedical technologies for developing genetic and neuroimaging markers and integrative approaches for objective diagnosis and personalized therapy of major psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder
Weixiong was interviewed on NOW NEWS, a Hong Kong TV news station, to discuss the newly funded RGC Strategic Target Grant (STG) funding on developing AI/genomic technologies to diagnose and treat major psychiatric disorders
Dr. Qiu Shulan joined the lab as Research Fellow
This is a joint work with Professors Jin Di and He Dongxiao’s groups at Tianjin University. The title of the paper: Constructive learning meets homophily: Two birds with one stone
This is a joint work with Professors Jin Di and He Dongxiao’s groups at Tianjin University. The title of the paper: A survey of community detection approaches: From statistical modeling to deep learning
Weixiong received Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF, three years and $1.4 million) to study schizophrenia using systems biology approaches