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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.2.2">Jekyll</generator><link href="http://localhost:4000/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="http://localhost:4000/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-02-22T14:15:47+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/feed.xml</id><entry><title type="html">Three Years</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/3years.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Three Years" /><published>2022-12-03T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2022-12-03T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/threeyears</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/3years.html"><![CDATA[<p>In October, Chen finished his training in the lab and started a new journey as 
a data scientist in the industry (Illumina Singapore). We are very lucky to 
have him as the first lab member and worked on multiple cool things. We will 
miss him and wish him to keep enjoying the exploration of research and wild nature.</p>

<p>This month, we also welcome our new member Lu joining us as a research assistant. 
Together with her, we are starting to explore a new area of image analysis, 
where we anticipate exciting medical applications and strengthen our 
machine-learning expertise.</p>

<p>Also, it’s been three years since our lab was established this month. If using 
a single word to summarise, it would be “growth”.</p>

<ul>
  <li>It is a growth of lab size. I feel blessed to have a group of amazing people 
around who love science and support each other.</li>
  <li>It is a growth of courage to face failures, for both myself and lab members. 
Research is of high failures (maybe that’s why it’s called research), and we 
are adapting our attitudes from hating failures to enjoying proposing new ideas.</li>
  <li>It is a growth of feedback in the research management paradigm, primarily to 
myself but also to the trainees. I like the philosophy of minimal management 
or a self-organised system but still accumulating data to assess its 
generalisability in maximising both happiness and success for trainees.</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[In October, Chen finished his training in the lab and started a new journey as a data scientist in the industry (Illumina Singapore). We are very lucky to have him as the first lab member and worked on multiple cool things. We will miss him and wish him to keep enjoying the exploration of research and wild nature.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">End of summer</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/summer2022.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="End of summer" /><published>2022-09-17T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2022-09-17T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/summer</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/summer2022.html"><![CDATA[<p>This summer it was a lot of fun to host undergraduates Jinhui, Amy, Kevin, Grace and Alva in the lab for their internships. They are in different academic years (Y1 to Y4) but worked as a team supporting each other to implement beta-binomial regression models from scratch in Python and apply them to different contexts.</p>

<p>Following the pre-training,  Grace and Kevin will further conduct their Final Year Projects in the lab. Now, both of them are playing with neural network models to capture patterns in single-cell genomics and transcriptomics.</p>

<p>As the new semester starts, we are also very pleased to see Fangxin formally starts her PhD in our lab with generous support from HKPF. She is exploring gene regulations in the cell differentiation processes, from a computational perspective and in conjunction with advances in single-cell multi-omics technology.</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This summer it was a lot of fun to host undergraduates Jinhui, Amy, Kevin, Grace and Alva in the lab for their internships. They are in different academic years (Y1 to Y4) but worked as a team supporting each other to implement beta-binomial regression models from scratch in Python and apply them to different contexts.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Workshop on Single-Cell Data Science</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/workshop.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Workshop on Single-Cell Data Science" /><published>2022-04-10T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2022-04-10T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/workshop</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/workshop.html"><![CDATA[<p>Together with Joshua, Xi and Zhixiang, we are excited to host the <a href="https://singlecell2022.hku.hk">NSFC/RGC Workshop on Single-Cell Data Science</a> on 
1-2 June 2022.</p>

<p>We much look forward to catching up with regional and global researchers for their recent works in this field, and making new friends!</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Together with Joshua, Xi and Zhixiang, we are excited to host the NSFC/RGC Workshop on Single-Cell Data Science on 1-2 June 2022.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Lab expanding towards mature</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/labgrow.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Lab expanding towards mature" /><published>2021-10-25T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2021-10-25T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/grow</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/labgrow.html"><![CDATA[<p>We are excited to see the further expansion of our lab by welcoming Ruiyan and 
Chen C as our newest lab members in the new semester.</p>

<p>Ruiyan is trained in biology in Shanxi Normal Univ and CAS Institute of Zoology,
and gradually found her interest in leveraging computational skills to tickle 
biological challenges at a large scale. In her PhD study, she has a focus on 
the analysis of cell heterogeneity on alternative splicing between cell states 
or disease conditions.</p>

<p>Chen C is trained in biology at Zhejiang Univ and has good exposure to 
statistical modelling. As an MPhil student, he is currently working on 
predicting CRISPR editing outcomes from sequences as a machine learning task.</p>

<p>Now, we are expanding towards the size of a start-up lab with members all
having strong interests in biomedical data science and from mixed backgrounds 
and skill sets: biological knowledge and interpretation, statistical modelling, 
software development, applied data science, etc. We learn from and support 
each other, and we believe the interdisciplinary team does better 
interdisciplinary research!</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We are excited to see the further expansion of our lab by welcoming Ruiyan and Chen C as our newest lab members in the new semester.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Welcome Mingze</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/welcome2101.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome Mingze" /><published>2021-01-14T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2021-01-14T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/jan</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/welcome2101.html"><![CDATA[<p>We welcome Mingze joined us as new PhD student. Mingze is the third member in the lab trained in Automation during undergraduate (at Xi’an JTU), and found the path to biomedical data science (at Imperial). He is now working on Bayesian modelling of single-cell transcriptomics and RNA splicing dynamics.</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We welcome Mingze joined us as new PhD student. Mingze is the third member in the lab trained in Automation during undergraduate (at Xi’an JTU), and found the path to biomedical data science (at Imperial). He is now working on Bayesian modelling of single-cell transcriptomics and RNA splicing dynamics.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">New semester</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/semester20.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="New semester" /><published>2020-09-21T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2020-09-21T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/semester</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/semester20.html"><![CDATA[<p>As a new semester &amp; academic year starts from September, we very warmly welcome 
our new lab members. Rongting starts her new life in Hong Kong as our first PhD
student, and is stretching statistical machine learning into cancer genomics. 
As a joint PhD student, Weizhong is broadening our interests in phylogenetics. 
Jerry and Julia join us through their final year projects by tasting biomedical 
research from computational view. Their joining excites us a lot, particularly 
in this difficult year.</p>

<p>During the summer, we had the chance to host three bright biomedical interns 
on a few fun projects: Kevin on modelling the mutations on SARS-CoV-2 genome, 
Mona on analysing splicing fidelity and alternative, and Jerry on studying B 
cell receptor repertoire in a network way. We say goodbye to them and hope they 
will keep enjoying science in future.</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[As a new semester &amp; academic year starts from September, we very warmly welcome our new lab members. Rongting starts her new life in Hong Kong as our first PhD student, and is stretching statistical machine learning into cancer genomics. As a joint PhD student, Weizhong is broadening our interests in phylogenetics. Jerry and Julia join us through their final year projects by tasting biomedical research from computational view. Their joining excites us a lot, particularly in this difficult year.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Welcome new members</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/june.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Welcome new members" /><published>2020-06-30T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2020-06-30T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/june</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/june.html"><![CDATA[<p>We welcome Dr. Chen Qiao joined us as a postdoctoral fellow, and 
Mr. Xianjie Huang joined us as an Research assistant in June.</p>

<p>Chen earned his PhD in data science in education and expertise in graph neural 
network and statistical machine learning, which are seamlessly transferred into 
biomedical data science.</p>

<p>Xianjie has a background in molecular biology but enjoys programming in C/Python
and software development. He is further stepping into analysis of cellular
genetics.</p>

<p>These two braves are respected for joining a brand new lab and being quarantined
for two weeks before arrival due to COVID-19.</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We welcome Dr. Chen Qiao joined us as a postdoctoral fellow, and Mr. Xianjie Huang joined us as an Research assistant in June.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">New journey starts</title><link href="http://localhost:4000/news/start.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="New journey starts" /><published>2019-12-20T00:00:00+08:00</published><updated>2019-12-20T00:00:00+08:00</updated><id>http://localhost:4000/news/start</id><content type="html" xml:base="http://localhost:4000/news/start.html"><![CDATA[<p>The Huang lab starts at HKU jointly between the School of Biomedical Sciences 
and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. 
We look for motivated people to join us and welcome collaborations.</p>]]></content><author><name>Yuanhua Huang</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Huang lab starts at HKU jointly between the School of Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. We look for motivated people to join us and welcome collaborations.]]></summary></entry></feed>