Congratulations to Associate Professor Jiwei Zhao for being named a 2026 Fellow of the American Statistical Association! This honor recognizes sustained and significant contributions to statistical sciences. The ASA Fellows Committee may name only ⅓ …
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Wang Lab contributes to major Down syndrome paper
The Wang Lab, in collaboration with Waisman Center researchers, published an important paper titled Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefontal cortex in the journal Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549 Dr. Wang, post …
Newton Contributes to Huntington’s Disease Research
Professor and Chair, Michael Newton, was featured in an article on Huntington’s Disease research in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences newsletter. Newton collaborated with Professor Jane Paulsen of the Department of Neurology …
AI News: Christina Kendziorski’s lab reports new multi-agent LLM for cell annotation
BMI Professor Christina Kendziorski and her lab report CASSIA, a new multi-agent large language model for automated and interpretable cell annotation in Nature Communications. Large-language models have potential to improve cell annotation, but face challenges, …
D. Wang and T. Lu – New Algorithm to Advance Neurodevelopmental Research
Drs. Daifeng Wang and Tianyuan Lu, and their students, along with Wang Lab alumnus Jerome Choi, PhD, developed a new machine learning algorithm called COSIME, which was published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The manuscript is …
Sushmita Roy Helping Understand Genomes Fit into a Cell Nucleus
Professor Sushmita Roy and Da-Inn Lee developed a computational method called Tree-Guided Integrated Factorization (TGIF), a new mathematical model of DNA folding. Learn more about it: https://research.wisc.edu/uncategorized/2025/09/04/research-news-roundup-2/
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Andreas Velten named to 2025 class of Optica Fellows.
Congratulations to Andreas Velten for being selected as one of 121 fellows of the Optica 2025 Fellows Class. The 2025 Optica Fellows Class represents 27 different countries, who will be honored at Optica conferences and …
Qilin Hong wins ASA 2025 Early Career Award
Congratulations to graduate student Qilin Hong, mentored by Associate Professor Zhengzheng Tang, for winning the 2025 Early Career Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association. Qilin received the award …
Jingqi Duan wins the 2025 ENAR Distinguised Student Paper award.
Congratulations to Jingqi Duan for winning the 2025 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper award. Jingqi is mentored by Professor Sunduz Keles and Professor Hyunseung Kang. The winning paper is titled “Causal mediation analysis of perturbations with …