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 …
Qiongshi Lu and team propose a statistical method to guarantee the reliability of AI-assisted GWAS
Associate Professor Qiongshi Lu and colleagues were highlighted in a Nature Genetics article for their work on the perils of relying on AI to predict complex traits and disease risks with genome-wide association study (GWAS) data, …
Guanhua Chen wins PCORI award
PCORI awarded BMI Associate Professor Guanhua Chen a 3-year, $1.05M contract for a study titled “Learning Interpretable and Fair Personalized Treatment Rules.” Dr. Chen will collaborate with Professor Maureen Smith (co-I) and Dr Jared Huling …
Daifeng Wang co-I on $9M NIH award to study Down Syndrome
Associate Professor Daifeng Wang is co-investigator on a newly awarded $9M grant to study Down Syndrome. Sigan Hartley (PI) and the team will conduct an in-depth study of factors driving the risk and severity of …
Miao and Lu – First and Last Author Paper in Nature Genetics
Congratulations to Jiancheng Miao (1st author) and Qiongshi Lu (last author) for a paper published online September 30 in Nature Genetics. The paper, titled “Valid inference for machine learning-assisted genome-wide association studies” offers a robust …
Velten Co-PI on Research Forward Award
Congratulations to associate professor Andreas Velten (co-PI) on receiving a Research Forward award titled “Quanta sensing for next generation quantum computing,” led by professor Mohit Gupta, associate professor of computer sciences and PI on the …