New life update! 🎆 🎓 This Fall, I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (@JHUCompSci) as an Assistant Professor, with an affiliation at the new Data Science and AI Institute (@HopkinsDSAI).

an elegant and extremely efficient (method-of-moments) test for epistasis in human traits congrats Boyang, Ali et al!! super excited to see this work published 🙂

Using a new deep learning algorithm, researchers at @Princeton have designed an approach to map the cellular organization of tissues by modeling spatial patterns in molecular data. https://t.co/899N66Lmtr

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to welcome 9 new tenure-track faculty to its ranks this academic year! Featuring @anand_bhattad, @uthsavc, @zihyunchiu, @krisgligoric, @murat_kocaoglu_, @_ziyang_, @tizianopiccardi, @yaxingyao, & @zakynthinou: https://t.co/yPOQpGI3ua

Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs) in RNA-seq are supposed to be… unique. But what if they don’t have to be? In our new preprint w/ Dylan Agyemang + @rafalab, we show that UMIs can be shorter—if you use the right estimator. 1/12

TissueMosaic is a super cool method for contrastive ST analysis with lots of rigorous benchmarking -- congrats @SandeepKambham2 et al!!

#HopkinsDSAI welcomes 22 new faculty members, who join more than 150 DSAI faculty members across @JohnsHopkins in advancing the study of data science, machine learning, and #AI and translation to a range of critical and emerging fields. https://t.co/tAauSzRFWD

Should you take an SVD before or after integrating your data? Our new preprint derives some surprising insights using tools from Random Matrix Theory. With @PhillipNicol, @rafalab, and Rong Ma. https://t.co/X7x9nnxGa7 (1/n)

@JHUCompSci @JessikaBaral pointed out to me that this was my last talk as a trainee :')

Presenting at #ISMBECCB2025 tomorrow! GASTON-Mix, a unified model of spatial gradients and domains in spatial 'omics data. 11:20am UK time at RegSys Also recruiting students for my new lab at @JHUCompSci, feel free to reach out if you want to chat

Congrats to Ben Langmead on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational & life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access & use DNA sequencing data. 🧬

1/6 Excited to share our latest preprint: "MORPH Predicts the Single-Cell Outcome of Genetic Perturbations Across Conditions and Data Modalities". 🔗 https://t.co/4D82u5d6w0 🧵 👇 Here is what MORPH is in a nutshell!

Congrats to @gillianychu et al!!

I am so deeply grateful for the support of many mentors and role models throughout the application process — there are too many to tag here, but thank you all 🙏 (Also grateful for the @HDSIUCSD Rising Stars in Data Science workshop which pushed me to apply this cycle!)

The Chitra Lab will build the next generation of machine learning and AI algorithms for addressing fundamental problems in biology. I am actively recruiting students — please visit our website for more details! https://t.co/8TK7BJcszt

The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot https://t.co/F3PHSlqRuV

🎉Congrats! 🥇@uthsavc: Mapping the topography of spatial gene expression with interpretable deep learning 🥈Anurendra Kumar: CellWHISPER: Inference of contact-mediated cell-sell signaling 🥉@xinhez: An AI-Cyborg System for Adaptive Intelligent Modulation of Organoid Maturation

Congrats Youn! and team, @lab_berger @HultgrenLab @broadinstitute @mit @GeorgKGerber1 @BrighamWomens @MGBResearchNews @harvardmed @AshleeMEarl

Excited to share our latest preprint, introducing the hierarchical cross-entropy (HCE) loss — a simple change that consistently improves performance in atlas-scale cell type annotation models. https://t.co/uX6paEG8k6

I met @uthsavc at RECOMB '22. We got lunch and talked science. His GASTON work (RECOMB '24), with its isodepth, was the missing piece for applying our DAG Granger Causality (RECOMB '23) to spatial settings. And thus GLACIER got going, led by Prannav Shankar and @hliang74!