Ma Lab News

2025

• 2025-Oct Our SHICEDO paper is is accepted by Bioinformatics! Congratulations, Jingong, Rui, Michael, Yangyang, and Tiantian!

• 2025-Jun John and Harley joined the group to work on their summer REU project, modeling transcriptomic age acceleration in Alzheimer's disease. Welcome!

• 2025-Jun Jinli completed her Computer Science MS degree. Congratulations, Jinli!

• 2025-Mar Jinli passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!

2024

• 2024-Dec Our collaboration paper on KDM6A's role in initiating X inactivation is accepted by Biology of Sex Differences. Congratulations to Jinli, Li, and Rui!

• 2024-Nov Our mini-review paper of single-cell Hi-C embedding methods is accepted by Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Congrats, Rui and Jingong!

• 2024-Oct Jinli is awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award. Congrats, Jinli!

• 2024-Oct Jingjing and Xunyang from Statistics joined the group. Welcome!

• 2024-Jun Claire, Jake, and Paimon joined the lab to work on their DS-PATH project, integrating single-cell Hi-C and single-cell RNA-seq data. Welcome!

• 2024-Jun Jordan, Kya, and Sweta joined the lab to work on their summer REU project, studying survival analysis using TCGA data with the aid of ChatGPT. Welcome!

• 2024-Jun Rui completed her Computer Science MS degree. Congratulations, Rui!

• 2024-May Rui passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Ma!

2023

• 2023-Oct Our DiffGR paper is accepted by Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics. Congratulations, Huiling!

• 2023-Sep Our scHiCDiff paper is accepted by Bioinformatics. Congratulations, Huiling!

• 2023-Sep Yusen from CSE joined the group. Welcome!

• 2023-Sep Jingong passed his PhD oral qualifying exam. Congratulations!

• 2023-Jun Saul joined the lab to work on his summer REU project, focusing on single-cell Hi-C data analysis. Welcome!

• 2023-Mar Rui is awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship. Congratulations, Rui!

• 2023-Mar Our HiCube paper is accepted by Bioinformatics. Congratulations, Tiantian, Yangyang, and Sydney!

• 2023-Mar Our collaboration paper on Babesia Duncani genome assembly is accepted by Nature Microbiology. Congratulations to Eleonora and Yangyang!

2022

• 2022-Sep Michael from CSE joined the group. Welcome!

• 2022-Sep Yudi passed her PhD written qualifying exam. Congratulations!

• 2022-Sep Rui received the 2021 Garber Award for her best performance in the Statistics Ph.D. qualifying exam and courses. Congratulation!

• 2022-Sep Rui passed her PhD oral qualifying exam. Congratulations!

• 2022-Jul Our collaboration paper on KDM6A regulating sex-biased and allele-specific gene expression is accepted by Biology of Sex Differences.

2021

• 2021-Dec Jinli passed her PhD oral qualifying exam. Congratulations, Jinli!

• 2021-Dec Yangyang passed his PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Hu!

• 2021-Sep Guoyao and Jingong from CSE joined the group. Welcome!

• 2021-Sep Wenxiu gave a talk at the 30th ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium.

• 2021-Aug Our ASHIC paper is selected as a highlight talk at RECOMB 2021. Congratulations, Tiantian!

• 2021-Jun Wenxiu gave a talk at the 4th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSat 2021).

• 2021-Jun Huiling passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Liu!

• 2021-May Wenxiu is promoted to Associate Professor, effectively July 1st.

• 2021-May Wenxiu gave a talk at the Women In Data Science (WiDS) Riverside event.

• 2021-Apr Our EnHiC paper is accepted to ISMB/ECCB 2021. Congratulations, Yangyang!

• 2021-Mar Jimmy completed his Computer Science MS degree. Congratulations, Jimmy!

2020

• 2020-Dec Biswanath Chowdhury joined the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Biswanath!

• 2020-Dec Tiantian completed her Computer Science MS degree. Congratulations, Tiantian!

• 2020-Nov Tiantian passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Ye!

• 2020-Oct We welcome Sydney Pun and Piyush Mundhra who joined the group as undergraduate researchers!

• 2020-Sep Our ASHIC paper is accepted by Nucleic Acids Research. Congratulations, Tiantian!

• 2020-Jun Li Ma joined the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Li!

• 2020-Apr Jimmy Ni from CSE joined the group. Welcome Jimmy!

• 2020-Mar Jinli Zhang from GGB joined the lab after her rotation project. Welcome Jinli!

2019

• 2019-Dec Wenxiu gave a talk at the 11th ICSA International Conference on Innovation with Statistics and Data Science at Hangzhou, China.

• 2019-Nov Wenxiu gave a talk at the Special Session on Data Science of the AMS Fall Western Sectional Meeting at UCR.

• 2019-Aug We moved to the new Multidisciplinary Research Building 1 (MRB1).

• 2019-Aug Fangjie passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Xie!

• 2019-Aug We received a 5-year NIH MIRA/R35 Award to develop computational and statistical methods to study spatial genome organization and gene regulation. [Inside UCR]

• 2019-Jan Wenxiu gave a talk at the Statistical Genomics Workshop at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference XXVII at San Diego, CA.

2018

• 2018-Jun We received a 5-year gift grant from the Center for Advancing Women in Technology to develop a new undergraduate Data Science program (PI: Vassilis Tsotras, Co-PIs: Daniel Jeske, Wenxiu Ma, and Shuheng Zhou, Evangelos Papalexakis, and Christian Shelton). [UCR Today]

• 2018-Jun Huiling and Yangyang passed their PhD qualifying exams. Congratulations to both of them!

• 2018-May We received a 1-year UCR Collaborative Seed Grant to study spatial genome reorganization by plant light signaling (PI: Meng Chen, Co-PI: Wenxiu Ma).

• 2018-Apr Wenxiu gave a talk at the 2018 NSF Project / Bioinformatics Workshop organized by Noble Research Institute, Michigan Technology University, and UCR.

• 2018-Mar Wenxiu gave a talk at the Computational and Statistical Interface to Big Data Conference at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

• 2018-Mar We received a 5-year NSF CAREER Award to develop computational and statistical methods to study allele-specific chromatin structures. [Project Webpage] [UCR Today]

• 2018-Jan Wenxiu gave a talk at the Data Science seminar at UCR.

2017

• 2017-Nov Luke passed his PhD oral qualifying exam. Congratulations, Luke!

• 2017-Aug Eleonora Khabirova joined the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Eleonora!

• 2017-Jul Wenxiu received the Regents Faculty Fellowship and Omnibus Travel grant from the Academic Senate at UCR.

• 2017-Jun Jingfei received her MS degree in Statistics and graduated from UCR. Congratulations, Jingfei!

• 2017-Mar Tiantian passed her PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations, Tiantian!

• 2017-Feb Wenxiu gave a talk at Department of Economics at UCR.

2016

• 2016-Dec Wenxiu gave a talk at the 10th ICSA International Conference on Global Growth of Modern Statistics in the 21st Century at Shanghai, China.

• 2016-Nov Wenxiu gave a talk at the Statistics Seminar at San Diego State University.

• 2016-Sep Wenxiu became a member of Center for Infectious Disease Vector Research (CIDVR) at UCR.

• 2016-Sep Yangyang Hu from CSE joined the lab. Welcome, Yangyang!

• 2016-Sep We received a 5-year collaborative grant (NIH/NIGMS R01, PI: Meng Chen, Co-I: Wenxiu Ma) to study the function of photobodies in plant light signaling.

• 2016-Jul Wenxiu gave a talk at the ICSA Conference on Data Science at Dali, China.

• 2016-Jun Wenxiu gave a talk at the 25th ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium at Atlanta, GA.

• 2016-Jun Wenxiu gave a talk at the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology seminar at UCSD.

• 2016-May We received a 1-year UCR Collaborative Seed Grant to study accelerated aging in geriatric HIV+ subjects (PI: Ilhem Messaoudi, Co-PIs: Brandon Brown, James Borneman, and Wenxiu Ma).

• 2016-May We moved to the multidisciplinary Genomics building.

• 2016-Apr Wenxiu became a member of Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB) and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) at UCR.

• 2016-Apr Wenxiu gave a talk at the MCBL/GGB/CMDB joint seminar at UCR.

• 2016-Apr We received a 4-year subaward from the University of Washington (NIH/NIGMS R01, PI: Christine Disteche) to study sex chromosome aneuploidy.

• 2016-Jan Wenxiu gave a talk at the 6th Annual Southern California Systems Biology Conference at UC Irvine.

2015

• 2015-Dec We welcome our very first graduate students: Tiantian Ye from GGB and Luke Klein from Statistics.

• 2015-Nov Wenxiu gave a talk at the Computer Science & Engineering colloquium at UCR.

• 2015-Oct Wenxiu became a cooperative faculty member of both the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics (GGB) Program.

• 2015-Sep Dr. Wenxiu Ma's lab officially started in the Statistics department at the University of California, Riverside.