Cracking the Code of Complex Diseases

Tan Yejun, an RA at the lab and a new PhD student, received PolyU Presidential PhD Fellowship.

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!

The title of the paper: Generalized taxonomy-guided graph neural networks.

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.