11/10/2024 - Academic Editor of Plos Computational Biology

Dr. Hu was invited to act as one of Academic Editors of the prestigious Plos Computational Biology. Congratulations!

11/07/2024 - Cover on Plos Computational Biology

Congratulations to our PhD student Lianghong Chen for his work on a novel diffusion model for generating synthetic medical images for radiogenomics analysis, which has been selected as a cover article in PLOS Computational Biology. (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/issue) ! 

11/03/2024 - Platform presentation at IGES 2024 Annual Meeting

Dr. Hu was invited to give a platform presentation on foundation model-driven spatial transcriptomics data prediction from histology image in the 2024 International Genetic Epidemiology Society Annual Meeting at Denver, USA.  Congratulations!

10/30/2024 - Halloween Pumpkin Contest

The Hu Lab's "Biochem CompSci team" has won the second place in Halloween Pumpkin Contest in the Department of Biochemistry. Congratulations!

10/25/2024 - Welcome Aoqi Xie, Victoria Truong and  Emmett Peng to join the lab

Aoqi, Victoria and Emmett are graduate students in biostatistics in the University of Toronto. Welcome!

10/07/2024 - Publication on Plos Computational Biology

Congratulation on our PhD student Lianghong Chen's work on a novel diffusion model for generating synthetic medical images for radiogenomics analysis published on the prestigious journal Plos Computational Biology! 

09/12/2024 -   DRI EDIA Champions Pilot Program Award 

Our PhD student Kaitlyn Wade won  DRI EDIA Champions Pilot Program Award from  Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Congratulations!  DRI: Digital Research Infrastructure;   EDIA: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility.  

09/03/2024 -  Welcome new lab members

Our lab welcomes new members including three new PhD students, Kaitlyn Emily Wade  and Lianghong Chen in the Department of Computer Science and Alfredo Varela Vega in the Department of Biochemistry,  two MSc students Zihao Jing and Ganlin (Kathy) Feng in the Department of Computer Science. Welcome!

08/17/2024 - Publication on Cell Reports

Congratulation to our PhD student Wasif Khan's work on dental plaque microbiome in early childhood carie published on the prestigious journal Cell Reports! 

08/16/2024 - Cross-appointments in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, Western University  

Dr. Hu was cross-appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences. Congratulation!

08/09/2024 -  Joint Statistical Meeting 

Leann, Yu and Pingzhao attended this year's Joint Statistical Meeting at Portland, USA and our group presented 3 papers on scRNA-seq, domain adaptation and synthetic MRI data generation in the largest statistical meeting. 

08/01/2024 - AI4PH Trainee Scholarship

Yu Shi, PhD student at the University of Toronto received the prestigious AI4PH Trainee Scholarship from the Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) Health Research Training Platform (HRTP), CIHR. Congratulations!

07/31/2024 - Publication on Bioinformatics Advances

Congratulation on our PhD student Kaitlyn Wade's work on Alignment-Free Machine Learning Methods for HIV-1 Subtype Classification published on Bioinformatics Advances. Congratulations! 

07/29/2024 -  Translational Breast Cancer Research Traineeship  

Congratulation on our PhD student Lianghong Chen received the prestigious Translational Breast Cancer Research Traineeship supported by Breast Cancer Canada!

07/05/2024 - Publication on iScience

Congratulation to our PhD student Wasif Khan's work on novel pipeline for integrating multiple microbiome studies published on the prestigious journal iScience!

​06/28/2024 -  Mindel Rady Olenick Fellowship in Human Genetics
Our PhD student Wasif Khan received  Mindel Rady Olenick Fellowship in Human Genetics. . Congratulation!

06/27/2024 - Publication on Plos Computational Biology

Congratulation on our former Mitacs student Youcheng Li's work on novel algorithm for spatial transcriptomics published on the prestigious journal Plos Computational Biology.! 

​06/26/2024 -Awards at  MSHRF poster competition 2024
Our PhD student M Wasif Khan won two awards (Manitoba Medical Services Foundation Award

and Dr. Ed Kroeger Travel Award) at the 2024 Manitoba Student Health Research Forum (MSHF) poster competition. Congratulation!

06/11/2024 -  Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Our MSc student, Zihuai Huang in the Department of Biochemistry, received the prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Congratulation!

06/06/2024 -  Four presentations at the Annual Conference of the Statistical Society of Canada

Our lab did four presentations about domain adaptation (Yu Shi), large language model (Yutong Lu), Copula-driven graph neural network (Shijie Min) and spatial transcriptomics (Pingzhao Hu) at the Annual Conference of the Statistical Society of Canada.

06/06/2024 -   1st Prize in the Case Study Two Competition at the SSC Annual Meeting

The graduate student team directed by Dr. Hu won the 1st prize in the Case Study Two Competition at the Annual Conference of  the Statistical Society of Canada. Congratulation!

06/06/2024 -   1st Prize in Poster Competition at Canada Statistics Student Conference

Our MSc student Yutong Lu won the 1st Prize in Poster Competition at Canada Statistics Student Conference. Congratulation!

05/31/2024 -   University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award 

Our former PhD student  Qian Liu won the 2024  University of Manitoba Distinguished Dissertation Award. Congratulation!

05/31/2024 -  Machine Learning for Drug Discovery Summer School

Our PhD students Yan Sun and Lianghong Chen are selected to attend .the 2024 Machine Learning for Drug Discovery Summer School in Montreal. Congratulation!

05/31/2024 -  CIHR Strategic Master’s Award

Our MSc student Kaitlyn Wade won CIHR Strategic Master's Award. Congratulation!

05/30/2024 -  Research Manitoba PhD Studentship

Our PhD student Leann Lac won Research Manitoba PhD Studentship. Congratulation!

05/16/2024 -  Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Our PhD student, Morgan He in the Department of Computer Science, received the prestigious Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Congratulation!

05/13/2024 - AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee
Dr. Pingzhao Hu was honored to be selected as one of the AMIA ( American Medical Informatics Association ) 2024 Annual Symposium Scientific Program Committee Members (here). Congratulation!

​05/10/2024 - Poster Competition at the BMG Research Day
Our PhD student M Wasif Khan received the 2nd prize at the BMG Research Day. Congratulation!​

05/10/2024 - AI4PH Summer Institute
Our Ph.D. student Kaitlyn Wade was accepted and funded to attend the 2024 AI4PH Summer Institute. Congratulation!

05/02/2024 -  CANSTAT Fellowship

Our MSc student Yutong Lu won Canadian Network for Statistical Training in Trials (CANSTAT) fellowship, which is funded by CIHR. Congratulation! 

05/01/2024 -  Welcome new lab members

Our lab welcomes new members including two new PhD students, Morgan He and Yuxi Long, in the Department of Computer Science and a first-year medical student, Fahad Rasool Butt, at Schulich. Welcome!

04/15/2024 -   2024 Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School  

Congratulation on our PhD student Sugitha Janarthanan and MSc students Lianghong Chen, Zihuai Huang and Kaitlyn Emily Wade  are accepted into the 2024 Deep Learning + Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) Summer School organized by CIFAR and the Vector Institute in Toronto.

04/15/2024 -  Mohd Wasif Khan won Gold Award in ICAM 

Congratulation on our PhD student Mohd Wasif Khan won Gold Award in ICAM (International Congress on Academic Medicine) Health Research Poster Competition.. 

04/02/2024 -   Kaitlyn Wade received NSERC CGS-M Scholarship

Our MSc student Kaitlyn received the prestigious NSERC CGS-M Scholarship. Congratulations! 

03/28/2024 -   Kaitlyn Wade received the 2024 GLBIO Conference Travel Award

Our MSc student Kaitlyn received a travel award to attend the 2024 GLBIO conference in  Pittsburgh , USA. Congratulations! 

03/25/2024 - PhD student Leann Lac's new publication on Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Our PhD student Leann Lac published a Review on Computational frameworks integrating deep learning and statistical models in mining multimodal omics data on Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Congratulation!

03/01/2024 -  Erin Lou received a  NSERC USRA Award

Erin, a medical science undergraduate student at Schulich, won the prestigious NSERC USRA Award for 2024 summer research. Congratulations! 

02/28/2024 -  the 16th Great Lakes Bioinformatics (GLBIO) conference 

MSc student  Kaitlyn Emily Wade et al 's full paper is accepted by GLBIO to give an oral presentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Congratulations! 

02/22/2024 - MSc student Zihuai Huang's new publication on Journal of Translational Medicine

Our MSc student Zihuai Huang published his research work on Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Driven Radiomic Prediction of Mutation Status Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Breast Cancer on the prestigious Journal of Translational Medicine.  Congratulations! 

02/14/2024 - PhD student Yan Sun's new publication on Bioinformatics

Our PhD student Yan Sun's thesis work on prediction of drug - target interaction with interpretable nested graph neural network and pretrained molecule models is accepted by the prestigious Journal - Bioinformatics. Congratulations! 

02/08/2024 - T-CAIREM (Temerty Centre for AI in Medicine) Trainee Rounds presentation at the University of Toronto  

Congratulation to our CS MSc student Lianghong Chen at Western University on being selected to give T-CAIREM Trainee Rounds presentation at the University of Toronto. Congratulation!

02/08/2024 - Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award
Our lab received the second 2024 Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award to support one international research intern  Vedant Gawande in the summer of 2024. Congratulation!

02/08/2024 - 22nd Annual Workshop  on Computational Paradigms in Molecular Biology Revisited

Dr. Hu was invited to give a talk at 22nd Annual Workshop  on Computational Paradigms in Molecular Biology Revisited, Barbados. 

02/06/2024 -  Science Meets Parliament Delegate
Dr. Hu is one of the selected scientists to attend the 2024  Science Meets Parliament by 

Canadian Science Policy Centre and the office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada. Congratulation!  .

12/30/2023 - Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award
Our lab received one Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award to support one international research intern Yuemin Yu from the University of Hong Kong in the summer of 2024..

12/19/2023 -   Hamid Hadipour successfully defended his MSc thesis

Our MSc student Hamid Hadipour in the Department of Computer Science successfully defended his MSc thesis.. Congratulation!!! 

11/27/2023 -  Ignite Innovation Grant from Arthritis Society Canada .

Our lab has been awarded an Ignite Innovation Grant from Arthritis Society Canada for developing an online tool for Joint Detection and Sharp-van Der Heijde Score Prediction in Hand Radiographs from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Congratulation!

11/20/2023 -   Keynote speaker at Semi-annual Health and Research Conference, Friends of MSF (Doctors Without Borders) chapter at Western University .

Dr. Hu was invited to give a keynote presentation on Artificial Intelligence empowered Health Research at Semi-annual Health and Research Conference, Friends of MSF (Doctors Without Borders) chapter at Western University. Congratulation!

11/17/2023 -  Judah Zammit landed a Data Analyst position at Strive Business Solutions.

Our lab's MSc student Judah Zammit has landed a Data Analyst position at Strive Business Solutions in Winnipeg. Congratulation!

11/12/2023 - ACR (American College of Rheumatology) Convergence 2023,  San Diego, USA.

Our work about deep learning for  Joint Detection and Sharp-van Der Heijde Score Prediction in Hand Radiographs from Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis is highlighted by ACR Convergence 2023. Please see the Press Release. Dr. Hu is the lead PI of the project. 

11/05/2023 - Platform presentation at IGES 2023 Annual Meeting

Dr. Hu was invited to give a presentation on "Conditional generative adversarial network-driven radiomic prediction of gene mutation status using magnetic resonance images of breast cancer" in the 2023 International Genetic Epidemiology Society Annual Meeting at Nashville, USA.  Congratulation!

09/25/2023 - Promoted to Associate Professor (Status-Only) at the University of Toronto

Dr. Hu was promoted to Associate Professor (Status-Only) in Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Congratulation!

09/20/2023 -  Welcome new lab members

Our lab welcomes new members:  Gen Zhou (PhD student), David Weng (Undergraduate Student)!

08/29/2023 -  Canada Research Chair Award

Dr. Hu was awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Computational Approaches to Health Researches. Congratulation!

08/25/2023 -  Welcome new lab members

Our lab welcomes new members:  Sugitha Janarthanan (PhD student), Kaitlyn Emily Wade  (MSc student), Chutong (Alana) Deng (MSc student), Lianghong Chen (MSc student), 

Zihuai (Matthew) Huang (MSc student),Julia Sawicka (Undergraduate student), Erin Lou (Undergraduate Student).

08/22/2023 -  Saqib and Judah successfully defended their MSc thesis

Our MSc students  Saqib AI Islam and  Judah Zammit  in the Department of Computer Science successfully defended their MSc thesis.. Congratulation!!! 

08/16/2023 -   Platform Oral Presentation at the 2023 International Genetic Epidemiology Society Meeting

Our MSc student Zihuai (Matthew) Huang's work on synthetic MRIs for genetic mutation status prediction was accepted as a Platform Oral presentation at the 2023 International Genetic Epidemiology Society Meeting to be held at  Nashville, Tennessee, USA.. Congratulation!

08/10/2023 -  Joint Statistical Meeting 

Leann, Qian, Jasper and Pingzhao attended this year's Joint Statistical Meeting at Toronto and our group presented 4 papers on disease subtyping, scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics and omics data integration in the largest statistical meeting. 

07/28/2023 -  Translational Breast Cancer Research Traineeship  

Congratulation on our MSc student Zi Huai Huang received the prestigious Translational Breast Cancer Research Traineeship supported by Breast Cancer Canada.. 

07/25/2023 -  CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant

Our lab received a 5 year CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant, which develops new AI methods for inflammatory bowel disease  drug discoveries . Congratulation!!!

07/08/2023 - Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award 

Welcome Chutong (Alana) Deng to join our lab. Alana is a MSc student in computer science. She received the prestigious Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award! Congratulation! 

06/15/2023 - T-CAIREM (Temerty Centre for AI in Medicine) Trainee Rounds presentation at the University of Toronto  

Congratulation to our CS MSc student Saqib Islam at the University of Manitoba on being selected to give T-CAIREM Trainee Rounds presentation at the University of Toronto   

​05/21/2022 - Publication on Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Our Mitacs student Yongye Su published a transformer-based YOLO segmentation model. Congratulation!

​05/15/2022 - Publication on Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu published a paper on a new framework for radiogenomics analysis in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Congratulation!

04/19/2022 -  Congratulation to Chengyou on his successfully MSc thesis defense
Our MSc student Chengyou Liu successfully passed his thesis defense entitled "Molecular representation modeling with graph neural networks for antibiotic discovery". Congrats!

​​04/11/2022 -  Multiomics-based deep tensor survival model for time-to-event prediction
Our MSc student Zhongyuan Zhang published a deep tensor survival model for time-to-event prediction in Bioinformatics. Congrats!

02/26/2022 -  Deep learning algorithm for prediction of drug mechanism of action

Our MSc student Chengyou Liu published an AI algorithm for predicting drug mechanism of action from large-scale chemical-genetic interaction profiles in the Journal of Cheminformatics. Congrats!

​​02/16/2022 - Martha Donovan Women’s Leadership Development Award
Our PhD student Qian Liu is one of the recipients of the 2021 Martha Donovan Women’s Leadership Development Award
(https://news.umanitoba.ca/awards-support-rady-women-in-meeting-leadership-goals/). Through the award, Qian is enrolled in the Artificial Intelligence Leadership course offered by MIT Management Executive Education. Congratulation!

​​​01/24/2022 - Member of Education Committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
Dr. Hu was selected as a Member of the Education Committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES). Congratulation!

​​01/10/2022 - Polygenic risk and causal inference of psychiatric comorbidity in IBD
Our graduate student Yao Li published a detailed analysis of polygenic risk and causal inference of psychiatric comorbidity in inflammatory bowel disease among patients with European ancestry in the Journal of Translational Medicine. Congratulation!

01/10/2022 - Deep clustering algorithm for small molecules at large-scale
Our graduate students Hamid Hadipour and Chengyou Liu published a deep clustering algorithm for small molecules in BMC Bioinformatics. Congratulation!  

12/23/2021 - Second Place Undergraduate Research Poster Competition Award
Our undergraduate student Madison Reed received the prestigious 2021 University of Manitoba Undergraduate Research Poster Competition award. 

​​12/23/2021 - Computational prediction of the pathogenic status of cancer-specific somatic variants
Our former MSc student Nikta Feizi published an algorithm for the prediction of the pathogenic status of cancer-specific somatic variants in Frontiers in Genetics. Congratulation!

​12/13/2021 - Review for extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu published an elegant review for extendable and explainable deep learning for pan-cancer radiogenomics in leading journal - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. Congratulation!

​11/19/2021 - Breast cancer subtyping algorithm is published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu and other students published a new tensor-factorization-based algorithm for breast cancer subtyping using multi-omics data. Congratulation!

​​10/18/2021 - New algorithm for drug repurposing has been published. 

​10/12/2021 - The Hu Lab has been interviewed by The Manitoban
Dr. Hu and Qian Liu were interviewed by The Manitoban (The Official University of  Manitoba Students' Newspaper) for their work on using AI to advance breast cancer research (https://www.themanitoban.com/2021/10/u-of-m-lab-using-ai-to-advance-breast-cancer-research/46312/). In 2020, Dr. Hu's research was also highlighted by The Manitoban (http://www.themanitoban.com/2020/10/machine-learning-gene-analysis-the-future-of-medicine/40480/). 

​10/10/2021 - Reviewers' Choice Poster award
Our group's poster (Qian Liu, Ph.D.student) was selected as Reviewers' Choice Poster Award at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Virtual Meeting

09/29/2021 - Eric Lin and Boyuan Liu joined the lab
Eric and Boyuan are graduate students in biostatistics at the University of Toronto. Welcome!

09/24/2021 - CANSSI Ontario STAGE HostSeq Fellowship
Qian Liu received the prestigious CANSSI Ontario STAGE (Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology) Host Fellowship.
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09/17/2021 - University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) Teaching Award
Dr. Hu is extremely honored to receive the prestigious  2021 UMGSA Teaching Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize faculty members who have made, in the estimate of their graduate students, a significant contribution to their teaching profession.  It is awarded to only one faculty member in the University of Manitoba each year. 

09/02/2021 - New publication on Frontiers in Public Health

Our lab has published a novel matrix profile-guided attention LSTM model for forecasting COVID-19 cases in USA. Congratulation!

​08/27/2021 - Leann Lac,  Judah Zammit, and Saqib AI Islam have joined our lab
Leann is a new Ph.D. student in the IIS program (Computer Science and Statistics), and Judah and Saqib are new MSc students in computer science. Welcome!

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08/26/2021 - ​Hafsa Moontari Ali defensed her thesis successfully
Hafsa has successfully defensed her Master's thesis. Congratulation!​​​ She will start her Ph.D. study in computer science at Concordia University. Good luck!

​08/09/2021 -Judah Zammit won the Best (1st Place) Research Presentation Award
Computer science undergraduate student Judah won the Best (1st Place) Research Presentation Award at the 2021 CancerCare Manitoba Research (CCMR) Undergraduate Summer Student Symposium. Congratulation!

08/05/2021 - Hafsa Moontari Ali received MICCAI 2021 Student Participation Award
MSc student Hafsa Moontari Ali  received  the MICCAI 2021 Student Participation Award at the 24Th International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), France

​​07/30/2021 - Yong Won Jin defensed his thesis successfully
Yong has successfully defensed his Master's thesis. Congratulation!

07/26/2021 - Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2021 Spring Project Grant Competition
Led by Drs. Robert Schroth, Prashen Chelikani, et al., our CIHR operating grant (1.86M) for oral microbiome is funded for 5 years. An exciting project! Congratulation!

07/17/2021 - COVID-19 CT image segmentation publication 
Our new self-supervised deep learning model for CT  image segmentation has been published in the Journal of Translational Medicine. Congratulation!

07/16/2021 - The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund
Led by Dr. Liam O’Neil, our Winnipeg Foundation Innovation grant (65K) is funded to predict who are at high risk to develop rheumatoid arthritis have differences in their joints that can be detected by thermal imaging (https://news.umanitoba.ca/thermal-imaging-rheumatoid-arthritis/). Congratulation!

06/21/2021 - Ed Kroeger Mentorship Award
Dr. Hu is extremely honored to receive the prestigious  2021 Ed Kroeger Mentorship Award, which recognizes excellence and distinction in mentorship, teaching, and research. It is awarded to only one faculty member in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in each year. Congratulations!
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06/21/2021 - Caroline A. Cope Award for Excellence in Oncology Research
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu received the prestigious 2021 Caroline A. Cope Award for Excellence in Oncology Research. Congratulations!

06/18/2021 - Health Science Centre Foundation (HSCF) grant
We received an HSCF grant ($70K) to develop computational models for detecting early joint damages using radiographs. Congratulations!

06/15/2021 - Publication on Frontiers in Pharmacology

Our student Yun Xu published a new paper on drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease ​​​using scRNA-seq data. Congratulations!

​06/09/2021 - University Research Grants Program (URGP) grant
We received a URGP grant (10K) to explore breast cancer scRNA-seq data analysis. Congratulations!​​​

06/04/2021 - Mitacs grant
We received a Mitacs grant ($90K) to develop computational models for drug design. Congratulations!

​​​06/04/2021 - NSERC grant
We received an NSERC Discovery grant ($210K) to develop computational models for scRNA-seq data analysis. Congratulations!

​​​06/04/2021 -  Leann Lac received NSERC Doctoral Award
Our coming Ph.D. student Leann Lac in the IIS program (Computer Science and Statistics) received a three-year Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D) ($105K). Congratulations!

​​05/19/2021 - Publication on Frontiers in Microbiology
We published an oral microbiome paper on Frontiers in Microbiology. Congratulations!

​​05/13/2021 - Publication on BMC Cancer
Our Ph.D. student Shujun Huang published a new network model for drug response prediction. Congratulation!

​05/07/2021 -  Poster Competition for Students and New Researchers in the First CANSSI-NISS (Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute –National Institute of Statistical Sciences (USA)) Health Data Science Workshop 
Our submission (Ph.D.  student: Qian Liu) was selected as one of the top eight submissions from all students and early researchers in Canada and the USA for a 10-minutes live oral presentation.  

05/2021 - Research Manitoba/CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Master’s Studentship Award
Our MSc student Daryl Fung won the 2021 Research Manitoba/CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Master’s Studentship Award. Congratulation!

05/2021 - Research Manitoba/CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Ph.D.’s Studentship Award
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu won the 2021 Research Manitoba/CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Ph.D. Studentship Award. Congratulation!

05/2021 - University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) – Ph.D. Level 
Our coming Ph.D.student Leann Lac was awarded a 4-year UMGF by the Department of Computer Science. Congratulation!

05/2021 - VADA NSERC CREATE Award
Our coming Ph.D.student Leann Lac was accepted into the NSERC VADA program. Congratulation!

04/2021 -  Special COVID-19 Case Study Competition organized by SSC Biostatistics Section
The report of the team (Qian Liu, Daryl Fung, Leann Lac) from my lab has been selected as one of the top eight teams. The report is honored to be featured on the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) website.

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​04/26/2021 - New publication on Genomics
Our former graduate student Shao Jia published a new algorithm to classify immune cell types from scRNA-seq data. Congratulations! 

04/23/2021 - Summer students
We welcome 4 summer students to join our lab: Katerina (Christiana) Cholakis (funded by CHI), Judah Zammit (Funded by RIOH),
Wentao Xie (Funded by Mitacs) and Yongye Su (Funded by Mitacs)!

03/2021 - Finalist of Most Promising Bioscience Student award 
Our MSc student Yong Won Jin was selected as a finalist of the Most Promising Bioscience Student Award by the Bioscience Association of Manitoba. Congratulation!

02/19/2021 - Women’s Health Research Foundation of Canada Graduate Scholarship
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu won the Women’s Health Research Foundation of Canada Graduate Scholarship! Congratulation!

02/08/2021 - New publication on Genomics

Our group continues making advancements in the genetic analysis of psychiatric comorbidity in IBD. The new research is published in Genomics. 

02/2021 - Associate Editor of Section of Statistical Genetics and Methodology, Frontiers in Genetics journal 
Dr. Hu was invited to act as the Associate Editor of Section of Statistical Genetics and Methodology, Frontiers in Genetics journal 

01/25/2021 - Hamid Hadipour joined our lab

Hamid Hadipour is a new MSc student in computer science. Welcome!

01/21/2021 - Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)
Dr. Hu was accepted as a member of Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)
at Temerty Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto. Congratulation!

01/21/2021 - Jiahui rejoined our lab
Jiahui Zhang. Ph.D. Candidate in Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto rejoined our lab. Welcome!

12/17/2020 - Publication on Scientific Reports
Our graduate students Rasif Ajwad, Qian Liu, and Nikata Feizi published a new approach to identify mutated subnetworks in the breast cancer genome. Congratulation!

11/19/2020 - Publication on Journal of Translational Medicine
Our graduate students Andrew Tran and Chris Walsh published a new machine learning tool to predict muscle diseases by integrating multiple microarray data sets. Congratulation!

11/16/2020 - Daryl Fung will join the lab in January 2021
We welcome our new lab member Daryl Fung, who will join the lab in January 2021 as an MSc student in computer science. Welcome!

11/16/2020 - Publication on IEEE Access
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu published a new algorithm for COVID-19 diagnosis using CT images. Congratulation!

10/18/2020 - Yao Li, Xu Li and, Haiying Zhu joined the lab
Yao, Xu and Haiying are graduate students in biostatistics at the University of Toronto. Welcome!

10/09/2020 - Publication on Cancers
Our MSc students Yong Won Jin and Shuo Jia published a new model for the detection of lymph node metastases in breast cancer patients on Cancers. Congratulation!

10/02/2020 - President’s Graduate Scholarship in Human Genetics
Congratulation on our MSc student Yong Won Jin, won 2020 President’s Graduate Scholarship in Human Genetics!

09/04/2020 - Welcome new Ph.D. student Yan Sun
We welcome our new CS Ph.D. student Yan Sun. Welcome!

09/03/2020 - Terry G. Falconer Memorial Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award (Interdisciplinary Category)
Dr. Hu received the Rh Award in Interdisciplinary Category from The Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation and the University of Manitoba.
This is the most prestigious award for junior faculty members at the University of Manitoba, which is awarded to the one who made Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research in the Interdisciplinary Category in the University of Manitoba. Congratulation!

07/2020 – Associate Editor, Section of Medical Genetics & Genomics, Annals of Medicine
Dr. Hu was invited to act as the Associate Editor of Section of Medical Genetics & Genomics, Annals of Medicine

06/18/2020 - CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Grant
Dr. Hu received an operating grant from CancerCare Manitoba Foundation to apply computational models to analyze breast cancer medical imaging data. Congratulation!

05/15/2020 - Manitoba Medical Services Foundation Allen Rouse Basic Science Career Scientist
Dr. Meaghan Jones Dr. Pingzhao Hu were named the recipients of the Manitoba Medical Service Foundation Allen Rouse Basic Science Career Development Award. Congratulation!

04/26/2020 - Publication on Bioinformatics

Our Mitacs student Zexuan Sun published a paper on a new algorithm called deep tensor factorization to identify anticancer drug combinations on Bioinformatics. Congratulation!

04/24/2020 - Welcome lab new members Hafsa Moontari Ali, Judah Zammit and Daryl Fung
We welcome our new CS MSc students Hafsa Moontari Ali, Judah Zammit, and Daryl Fung. Welcome!

04/24/2020 - Shuo Jia defensed his thesis successfully
Shuo has successfully defensed his Master's thesis. Congratulation!

04/24/2020 - Publication on Cancers
Our MSc student Yong Won Jin published a paper on tumor-infiltrating CD8 T cells predicting clinical outcome of breast cancer in young women on Cancers. Congratulation!

04/16/2020 - Welcome lab new members Yolanda Ding
We welcome our new undergraduate student Yolanda Ding. Welcome!

04/16/2020 - CIHR 2019 Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered) Grant Competition
Led by Dr. Claudia dos Santos and funded by CIHR and NSERC partnered, we are in an interdisciplinary team to develop an epigentic-based PowerBlade tool for clinically diagnosing human sepsis. An exciting project!

02/24/2020 - Mindel Rady Olenick Fellowship in Human Genetics
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu received the University of Manitoba's “Mindel Rady Olenick Fellowship in Human Genetics". Congratulation!

02/09/2020 - Publication on Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Our Mitacs student Peiran Jiang published a paper on the identification of anticancer drug combinations in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Congratulation!

02/05/2020 - Drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease grant is approved

Our grant entitled "Computational drug repurposing for Alzheimer's disease" is funded by the University Collaborative Research Program (UCRP), University of Manitoba. Congratulation!

02/03/2020 - Microbiome publication
Our paper using computational approaches for microbiome analysis has been accepted by the Journal of Dental Research. Congratulation!

01/29/2020 - Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2019 Fall Project Grant Competition
Led by Dr. Siliva Cardona and collaborated with Dr. Rebecca Davis, our CIHR operating grant is funded for 5 years. An exciting project! Congratulation!

01/23/2020 - Shuo Jia landed a job as a Software Engineer in Toronto
Our BMG MSc graduate student Shuo Jia has successfully landed a job as a software engineer in Toronto. Congratulation!

12/21/2019 - The 11th International Chinese Statistical Association Conference
Dr. Hu attended and co-organized the invited session “Statistical advancements in emerging challenges in health data science” in
The 11th ICSA (International Chinese Statistical Association) International Conference, Hangzhou, China

12/20/2019 -CIHR Team Grant
Led by Dr. Hani El-GABALAWY, our CIHR Team grant: human immunology Initiative is funded for 4 years, which will integrate multiomics data to predict risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Congratulation!

12/18/2019 - Rady Innovation Grant
Led by Dr. Lisa Lix, our Rady Innovation Grant from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is funded to predict disease risks and estimate genetic heritability using electronic health records. Congratulation!

11/15/2019 - Dean's Travel Award
Our Ph.D. student Qian Liu received the Faculty of Health Sciences “Dean’s Travel Award". Congratulation!

10/30/2019 - NSERC Engage Grant
Our NSERC Engage grant for drug repurposing is funded. Congratulation!

10/18/2019 - Zhongyuan Zhang and Andrew Tran, Bowen Cheng joined the lab
Zhongyuan, Bowen, and Andrew are MSc candidates in biostatistics at the University of Toronto. Welcome!

09/16/2019 - Nikta Feizi landed a biostatistician job at Amaris, Toronto
Nikta has successfully landed a job as a biostatistician in Amaris, Toronto. Congratulation!

08/30/2019 - Dr. Md Altaf Amin from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST, Japan) visited Dr. Hu Lab
Dr. Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin from NAIST has visited Dr. Hu Lab to collaborate on algorithms for identifying IBD-associated miRNAs from miRNA-mRNA interaction networks. 

08/28/2019 - Qian Liu's paper accepted by Cells
Qian's paper on cancer cell counting was accepted by Cells. Congratulation!

08/28/2019 - Welcome lab new members Chengyou Liu, Qian Liu and Mohd Wasif Khan
We welcome our new MSc student Chengyou Liu, Mohd Wasif Khan and Ph.D. student Qian Liu. Welcome!

08/20/2019 - Qian Liu defensed her thesis successfully
Qian has successfully defensed her Master's thesis. Congratulation!

08/14/2019 - Lab Summer Celebration
Dr. Hu lab has a summer party to celebrate all trainees' achievements.

08/14/2019 - Nikta Feizi defensed her thesis successfully
Nikta has successfully defensed her Master's thesis. Congratulation!

08/13/2019 - Peiran Jiang won the Best Basic Research Presentation
Mitacs student Peiran won the Best Basic Research Presentation at 2019 CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute Summer Student Symposium. Congratulation!

07/26/2019 - Rayhan Shikder defensed his thesis successfully
Rahyhan has successfully defensed his Master's thesis. Congratulation!

07/24/2019 - Rayhan Shikder landed a job in Toronto
Rahyhan has successfully landed a job as a software engineer in Toronto. Congratulation!

07/21/2019 - Xinyu got acceptance into PhD Engineering Science Program in the University of Oxford
Our former Mitacs Globalink Internship student Xinyu Hou got acceptance into PhD Engineering Science Program in the University of Oxford, UK. Congratulation!

07/10/2019 - Prostate Cancer Canada

Dr. Hu was selected and invited to attend the planning meeting in September for “Movember Translation Acceleration Grant to improve patient outcomes and treatment planning with advanced imaging” organized by Prostate Cancer Canada.

07/10/2019- Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2019 Spring Project Grant Competition
Led by Dr. Claudia dos Santos and funded by CIHR, we are in an international and interdisciplinary team to perform large-scale epigenome -wide profiling of human sepsis to identify epigenetic marks to build AI models for predicting human sepsis. An exciting project!

06/26/2019 - Svetlana Frenkel published on Data in Brief
Our former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Svetlana Frenkel published her CNV data in patients with inflammatory bowel disease on Data in Brief. Congratulation!

06/18/2019 - 8th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting
Our MSc student Nikta Feizi attended and was selected to make an oral presentation in the 8th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting in Fairmont le Château Montebello, Québec.

06/17/2019 - Canada-Korea Conference on Science and Technology
Our MSc student Yong Won Jin attended and was invited to present at Canada-Korea Conference on Science and Technology in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

06/13/2019 - Data Science Bootcamp
Our Master's student Qian Liu was selected to attend a two-week's Data Science Bootcamp at the University of Saskatchewan. Congratulation!

06/12/2019 - Research Manitoba - Master's Studentship Award
Our Master's student Yong Won Jin was awared a Research Manitoba - Master's Studentship Award. Congratulation!

06/03/2019 - Christiana, Peiran and Zexuan joined the lab
Our Mitacs funded undergraduate students (Peiran Jiang and Zexuan Sun) from China and Christiana Cholakis (a undergraduate student from USA) joined the lab for summer research in bioinformatics. Welcome!

05/31/2019 - Rayhan Shikder attended and presented in Canada AI 2019
Rayhan presented his work on computational integration of multiple omics data sets in 2019 Canada Artificial Intelligence Conference in Kingston. Great job!

05/27/2019 - 2019 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
Dr. Hu organized and chaired the  Case Studies in Data Analysis Competition in 2019 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Calgary. It was very successful!

05/21/2019 - Svetlana Frenkel published on Plos One
Our former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Svetlana Frenkel published her work on examining rare CNV in patients with inflammatory bowel disease on Plos One. Congratulation!

05/17/2019 - Svetlana Frenkel published on Genomics
Our former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Svetlana Frenkel published her work on examining the CNV association with psychiatric comorbidity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease on Genomics. Congratulation!

05/17/2019 - Qian Liu is accepted into VADA program and IIS PhD program
Our MSc student Qian Liu is accepted into VADA program and University of Manitoba Individual Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) PhD
program (Department of Computer Science and Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics). Congratulation!

04/04/2019 - Qian Liu is selected to give an oral presentation in CCMB Research Day
Our MSc student Qian Liu is selected to give an oral presentation in CancerCare Manitoba Research Day. Congratulation!

04/03/2019 - Publication on BMC Research Notes
Our MSc student Rayhan Shikder published on BMC Research Notes. Congratulation!

04/03/2019 - Publications on Cancers
Our trainees Qian Liu and Shujun Huang published on Cancers. Congratulation!

03/22/2019- Best Oral Presentation Award
Our MSc student Qian Liu won the Best Oral Presentation Award in 2019 IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference. Congratulation!

03/01/2019 - Cystic Fibrosis Canada - Basic and Clinical Research Grant was funded
Our operating grant aiming to use computational approaches for antibiotics discovery has been funded by Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Exciting news!

02/25/2019 - Jiahui Zhang was admitted into the Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto
Jiahui was admitted into the Biostatistics Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto. Congratulation!

02/23/2019 - Best Presentation Award
Our former Mitacs student Xinyu Hou presented her work on drug-drug interaction network prediction and won the Best Presentation Award in 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing. Zhuhai, China. Congratulation!

02/01/2019 - The Interstellar Initiative
Dr. Hu attended the second workshop of The Interstellar Initiative held in New York, USA. Teaming up with Dr. Kazuhiro Murakami from Japan, Dr. Anna Junker from Germany and Dr Pingzhao Hu from Canada, we presented computational approaches-guided development of multiscale imaging probes for colorectal cancer and breast cancer.

01/15/2019 - Dr. Pingzhao Hu presented at APBC 2019.
Dr. Hu presented our group's work on drug-target interaction network prediction led by Jiaying You in APBC 2019 in Wuhan, China.

01/10/2019 - Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award
Our lab received two Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Awards to support two international research interns in the summer of 2019.

01/05/2019 - Publication on 2019 IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Our MSc student Qian Liu published a new algorithm for cell counting from medical imaging. Congratulation!

01/03/2019 - Publication on Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Our undergraduate student Liam Grenier published a paper on drug repurposing using genetic information in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. Congratulation!

12/13/2018 - Rayhan Shikder was highlighted at UM Today
Our MSc student Rayhan Shikder was highlighted at UM today (http://news.umanitoba.ca/vada-program-offers-valuable-skills-in-disease-prevention/) on his internship in Toronto and his experience in VADA program. Congratulation!

12/12/2018 - Publication on Frontiers in Oncology
Our MSc student Jiahui Zhang published a paper on modeling of gene-environment interaction in Frontiers in Oncology. Congratulation!

12/05/2018 - Presentation at College of Pharmacy
Dr. Hu was invited to give a talk on drug discovery in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba.

12/03/2018 - Christmas Party
Our lab held a pizza Christmas party to celebrate our hard work and achievements and also congratulate on Jiaying's new position.

11/27/2018 - Jiaying was offered a Data Scientist position in InVivo AI, Montreal
Our former lab member Jiaying You got a Data Scientist job in InVivo AI in Montreal. Congratulation!

11/06/2018 - Appointed as an Adjunct Scientist
Dr. Hu was invited to become an Adjunct Scientist to the Research Institute in Oncology and Hematology at CancerCare Manitoba. Congratulation!

10/30/2018 - Dr. Linglong Kong visited the University of Manitoba
Dr. Hu invited Dr. Kong from the University of Alberta to visit The University of Manitoba from October 30 to November 1.  He gave stimulating presentations on genetic imaging analysis and new machine learning algorithms. Thanks, Dr. Kong!

10/19/2018 - Visiting Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Hu was invited to visit Nara Institute of Science and Technology from October 19 to October 26, Japan.

10/18/2018 - Mitacs student Xinyu Hou's work was accepted by ICMLC 2019
Our 2018 Mitacs student Xinyu Hou's  research work has been accepted by 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing. Congratulation!

10/12/2018 - Breast Cancer Research Group Presentation
Dr. Hu was invited to present at Breast Cancer Research Group, Research Institute in Oncology and Hematology, Manitoba.

10/11/2018 - Game Changer - Manitoba's Idea Competition
At the Event of “Meet the Expert”, Game Changer – Manitoba’s Idea Competition, Dr. Hu was invited to give a talk.

10/01/2018 - Fei Zuo joined the lab
Fei Zuo is a MSc candidate in biostatistics in the University of Toronto. Welcome!

09/25/2018 - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), USA
Collaborating with investigators from microbiology and chemistry, our proposal for antibiotic discovery was funded by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, USA. Congratulation!

09/18/2018 - Jiaying's thesis work was accepted by APBC 2019.
Our work on drug-target interaction network prediction lead by Jiaying You was accepted by APBC 2019. Congratulation!

09/10/2018 - Linfan Zhang published her research in Frontiers in Genetics
Our former Mitacs student Linfan Zhang published her research in Frontiers in Genetics. Congratulation!

09/10/2018 - Jiaying You defensed her thesis successfully
Jiaying You has successfully defensed her Master's thesis. Congratulation!

09/04/2018 - Welcome lab new member Yong Won Jin
We welcome our new MSc student Yong Won Jin. Welcome!

08/30/2018 - Lab Summer Celebration
Dr. Hu lab has a summer party to celebrate all trainees' achievements.

08/08/2018 - Chair of Case Studies Committee, Statistical Society of Canada
Dr. Hu has been appointed as the Chair of the Case Studies Committee of Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) by the President of SSC.

07/29/2018 - 2018 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM)
Dr. Hu chaired an invited session on epigenomic data analysis and presented a paper on using 3D compound structure information for gene activity in Statistics and Data Science Session of 2018 JSM, Vancouver.

07/10/2018- Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2018 Spring Project Grant Competition
Led by Drs. Prashen Chelikani and Robert Schroth and funded by CIHR, the interdisciplinary team will be using a combined experimental, clinical and bioinformatical approach to examine the role of taste signaling and host-microbial interactions on caries risk in young children. An exciting project!

07/09/2018 - Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Summer School
Xinyu, Rayhan, Nikta and Yong Won from our lab attended 2018 VADA summer school and big data challenge!

07/03/2018 - Xinyu Hou and Yong Won Jin joined the lab
Xinyu is a Mitacs funded undergraduate student from China and Yong Won is a new MSc student in bioinformatics. Welcome!

06/25/2018 - Research Computing Summer School
Qian and Shuo from our lab attended 2018 Westgrid Research Computing Summer School!

06/22/2018 - The Interstellar Initiative
Funded by Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JAMRD) and New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and mentored by Dr. Katherine Andriole from Harvard University,  Dr. Kazuhiro Murakami from Japan, Dr. Anna Junker from Germany and Dr. Pingzhao Hu from Canada are teaming up for Computational approaches-guided development of multiscale imaging probes for colorectal cancer. An exciting project! Thanks for Dr. Andriole and JAMRD and NYAS!

06/04/2018 - 2018 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
Dr. Hu organized an invited session “Statistical Association Analysis of Imaging and Genomic Data: Opportunities and Challenges” at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Montreal.

05/29/2018 - CancerCare Manitoba Research Day
Qian Liu, Jiaying You and Nikita Feizi presented in CancerCare Manitoba Research Day on developing and applying computational algorithms for imaging analysis, drug discovery and driver gene discovery.  Excellent work!

05/29/2018 - Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Foundation Funding
We received a grant from Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Foundation to develop computational algorithms for multimodal cancer data. Congratulations!

05/25/2018 - The Interstellar Initiative Award
Dr. Hu was selected by New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development for The Interstellar Initiative. The award recognizes “the world's most promising Early Career Investigators in the fields of cancer, neuroscience and artificial intelligence”. Congratulations!

05/07/2018 - Computer Science PhD Entrance Award
Mohaiminul's received Computer Science PhD Entrance Award from the Department of Computer Science. Congratulations!

05/07/2018 - Jiaying You attended and presented in Canada AI 2018
Jiaying presented his work on using computational algorithms for drug discovery in the 2018 Canada Artificial Intelligence Conference in Toronto. Great job!

05/07/2018 - Rayhan Shikder started his internship in Toronto
Rayhan will do an internship in Dr. Hui Jiang's lab in Toronto.

04/26/2018 - IMED 7280- Medical Computational Biology Graduate Course
The bioinformatics (Health Data Science) course led by our lab was first-time offered in Faculty of Sciences and was very successful. 13 graduate students from 5 departments and 2 faculties took the course. Thank for all the instructors!

04/25/2018 - Shuo Jia and Lourens Jacobs joined the lab
Shuo is a MSc student in bioinformatics and Lourens is a BSc Medicine student. Welcome!

04/05/2018 - Epigenome-wide methylation analysis of prostate cancer
Yan's paper on epigenome-wide methylation analysis of prostate cancer has been published on clinical epigeneitcs. Congratulation!

04/01/2018 - Undergraduate Summer Studentship Award
Liam Grenier received Undergraduate Summer Studentship Award from The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.Congratulations!

02/14/2018 - Drug-target interaction network for drug repurposing
Jiaying's machine learning-based drug-target interaction network prediction has been accepted by Canada AI 18. Congratulation!

02/01/2018 - Presentations on Complex Data in Health Research Workshop
Jiaying, Svetlana and Nikta made poster presentations on Complex Data in Health Research Workshop, Winnipeg. Great jobs!

01/29/2018 - CNAs in young women with breast cancer
Selina's paper on copy number alterations in young women with beast cancer has been published on Oncotarget. Congratulation!

01/30/2018 - Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award
Our lab received Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Award to support one international research interns in the summer of 2018.

12/04/2017 - Md. Mohaiminul Islam defensed his thesis successfully
Md. Mohaiminul Islam has successfully defensed his Master's thesis. Congratulation!

11/28/2017 - Selina was offered an Analyst  position in the Department of Agriculture, Manitoba
Our former lab member Selina (Chen) Chi got an analyst job in the Department of Agriculture, Manitoba. Congratulation!

11/27/2017 - Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program
As a part of VADA program, our VADA graduate training program funded by NSERC has formally been announced
http://news.umanitoba.ca/new-program-will-help-us-manage-and-prevent-chronic-and-infectious-diseases/ . Congratulation!

10/24/2017 - Jiahui Zhang joined the lab
Jiahui is a MSc candidate in biostatistics in the University of Toronto. Welcome!

10/12/2017 - Rasif was offered a Software Engineer position in Winnipeg City Hall (City of Winnipeg) 
Our former lab member Rasif Ajwad got a job in Winnipeg City Hall. Congratulation!

10/10/2017 - Liam Grenier joined the lab
Liam is a undergraduate student in science in the University of Manitoba. Welcome!

09/28/2017 - Wenxin was offered an  Analyst position in Canadian Institute for Health Information
Our former lab member Wenxin Jiang got a job in Canadian Institute for Health Information, Toronto. Congratulation!

09/26/2017 - Adjunct Professor of Computer Science in the University of Manitoba
Dr. Hu was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Manitoba.

09/17/2017 - Terry Fox Run
Chen Chi and Jiaying You from our lab attended Terry Fox Run held in Winnipeg. Thank you!

09/13/2017 - Rasif Ajwad defensed his thesis successfully
Rasif Ajwad has successfully defensed his Master's thesis. Congratulation!

09/05/2017 - Nikta Feizi joined the 

lab
Nikta is a MSc candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics of University of Manitoba.  Welcome!

09/01/2017 - Collaborative Project Seed Funding
Collaborating with investigators from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Alberta and the University of Manitoba, we received a collaborative project seed funding from The Western Canadian Universities to advance big health data analysis. Congratulation!

08/30/2017 - Rayhan Shikder joined the lab
Rayhan is a MSc candidate in the Department of Computer Science of University of Manitoba. He will be developing algorithms for visual analytics. Welcome!

08/17/2017 - Farewell party
We had a farewell party for Dr. Yan Cheng,Nikho Hizon and Rasif Ajwad. Wish all your best!

07/17/2017 - 2016-2017 BGEN Seminar Winner
Chen Chi was awarded 2016-2017 BGEN Seminar Winner (3rd place). Congratulation!

06/16/2017 - Chen Chi defensed her thesis successfully
Chen Chi has successfully defensed her Master's thesis. Congratulation!

06/12/2017 - The 45th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
Dr. Hu, Md. Mohaiminul Islam and Jiaying You attended and presented in the the 45th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Winnipeg.

06/05/2017 - Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Operating Grant
We received a grant from Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba to examine the association between host genetics and microbiome of Crohn's disease.

05/19/2017 - 30th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Md. Mohaiminul Islam attended and presented in the 30th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton.

05/09/2017 - Poster of Distinction at Digestive Disease Week (DDW)
Svetlana won the “Poster of Distinction” award at American Gastroenterological Association’s (AGA) Digestive Disease Week (May 6-9), Chicago for her research "Rare copy number variations associated with inflammatory bowel disease". This poster was rated in the top 10% of all AGA abstracts selected for poster presentation at DDW. Congratulations!

04/25/2017 - 6th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting
Chen Chi and Dr. Yan Cheng attended and presented in the 6th Annual Canadian Human and Statistical Genetics Meeting.

04/12/2017 - Qian Liu joined the lab
Qian is a MSc candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics of University of Manitoba. She will be developing algorithms for imaging genetic data analysis. Welcome!

04/07/2017 - NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program
Our NSERC CREATE Program entitled "Visual and Automated Disease Analytics" has been funded by NSERC for 6 years. Exciting news!

04/04/2017 - Visiting University of Toronto
Dr. Hu was invited to give a scientific presentation in Division of Biostatistics, University of Toronto from April 4 to April 5.

03/28/2017 - Visiting Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Dr. Hu was invited to visit Nara Institute of Science and Technology from March 28 to March 31, Japan.

03/27/2017 - Bingqing was offered an  Information Management Analyst position in Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Our former lab member Bingqing Shen got a job in Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto. Congratulation!

03/22/2017 - GETS Award

Hu Lab received Graduate Enhancement of Tri-council Stipends (GETS) award from University of Manitoba to support new coming students.

03/12/2017 - Manitoba Statistical and Health Sciences (MB-SAHS) Collaborating Centre

Collaborating with investigators from Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of Statistics, we received seed funding from Canadian Statistical Sciences Institutes to establish MB-SAHS Collaborating Centre.

02/10/2017 - University Collaborative Research Program
As a co-applicant with Drs Silvia Cardona and Rebecca Davis, Our research project has been funded by University Collaborative Research Program (UCRP).

02/01/2017 - University Research Grants Program
Our research project has been funded by University Research Grants Program (URGP).

01/28/2017 - Linfan got acceptance into MSc Biostatistics Program in 

the University of California, Los Angeles
Our former Mitacs Globalink Internship student Linfan Zhang got acceptance into MSc Statistics Program in the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Congratulation!

01/25/2017 - Chen Chi received Nancie J. Mauro Graduate Scholarship in Oncology Research
Chen Chi was awarded Nancie J. Mauro Graduate Scholarship in Oncology Research. Congratulation!

01/20/2017 - Ye Tian received GAW20 Travel Award
Ye Tian received a travel award to attend and present results in Genetic Analysis Workshop 20 to be held in San Diego, CA. 

10/17/2016 - Chen Chi and Dr. Hu attended ASHG 2016 Meeting

Chen Chi was presenting on ASHG 2016 and received 2016 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research – Semifinalist.

10/07/2016 - CIHR Travel Award
Chen Chi received CIHR Travel Award to attend ASHG 2016 Annual Meeting. Congratulation!

10/07/2016 - Algorithm for calling recurrent CNV
Our group published a graph-based algorithm to call recurrent copy number variations.

09/30/2016 - Wenxin Jiang joined the lab
Wenxin is a MSc candidate in biostatistics in the University of Toronto. Welcome!

09/20/2016- Phyllis J. McAlpine Graduate Fellowship
Chen Chi received Phyllis J. McAlpine Graduate Fellowship. Congratulation!

09/20/2016 - 2015-2016 BGEN Seminar Winner
Chen Chi was awarded 2015-2016 BGEN Seminar Winner. Congratulation!

09/16/2016 - Nikho Hizon joined the lab
Nikho is a undergraduate student in genetics in the University of Manitoba. He will work in my lab for his honours degree project. Welcome!

09/09/2016 - Visiting PhD student from Japan
Ryohei Eguchi is a PhD. Candidate from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He will stay in my lab for one week. Welcome!

09/09/2016 - Manitoba Graduate Scholarship
Md. Mohaiminul Islam received Manitoba Graduate Scholarship provided by The Government of Manitoba. Congratulation!

09/02/2016 - Svetlana Frenkel, Ye Tian and Jiaying You joined the lab
Svetlana is a postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics and Ye and Jiaying are Master's students in computer engineering. Welcome!

08/19/2016- Lab Summer Party
Our lab had a party for welcoming our new members: Dr. Yan Cheng, Md. Mohaiminul Islam and Ye Tian and farewelling Kate.

08/16/2016 - Md. Mohaiminul Islam joined the lab
Mohaiminul is a Master's student in computer science in the Department of Computer Science. Welcome!