Lab News
Awards and Achievements
- Feb. 20, 2026
Congratulations to Can Luo for receiving the prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, one of three recipients selected across the entire university. - Dec. 17, 2025
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu for receiving the prestigious Graduate School Endowed Awards - Edward Ferguson Jr. Graduate Award (for students demonstrating excellence in research, select 1-3 students per year in the entire university). - Dec. 17, 2025
Congratulations to Can Luo for receiving the prestigious Graduate School Endowed Awards - Lai Sulin Scholarship (for remarkable contribution in cancer research, select 1 student per year in the entire university). - Nov. 6, 2025
Congratulations to Maizie on receiving the Provost’s Faculty Grant for Immersion Vanderbilt to support Immersion Vanderbilt Cohort Project: Integrative AI Methods for Cell Type Transfer in Spatial Biology. - May. 30, 2025
Congratulations to Maizie on being selected as an awardee for Global Engagement Travel Grants. - May. 6, 2025
Congratulations to Yichen Liu, Can Luo, and Maizie for receiving the VUSE Best Paper Award/Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper (select 1 paper per year in the entire engineering school). - Mar. 12, 2025
Congratulations to Yuqi Lei for receiving the 2025 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Mar. 6, 2025
Congratulations to Can Luo for receiving the prestigious 2025 Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award. - Mar. 6, 2025
Congratulations to Keyi Tang & Miao Deng on being selected for the 2025 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (VUSRP) Awardees. They will each receive a $6000 award stipend. - Jul. 3, 2024
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu for receiving the 2024 VADD Travel Funds. - Apr. 14, 2024
Congratulations to Can Luo for receiving the 2024 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Mar. 20, 2024
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu for receiving the 2024 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Mar. 18, 2024
Congratulations to Weiman Yuan for receiving the 2024 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Mar. 20, 2023
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Dec. 12, 2022
Congratulations to Can Luo for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant. - Dec. 15, 2021
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu for receiving the student travel award from IEEE BIBM.
Milestones
- Mar. 23, 2026
Haoran (Hunter) Qin successfully defended his CS Master’s thesis today. Congratulations~ - Jan. 21, 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Can Luo, she successfully passed her PhD defense today! 🎉 - Nov. 10, 2025
Congratulations to Zhenhan Lin, she passed her prelim exam today! - Apr. 11, 2025
Congratulations to Weiman Yuan, he passed her qualifying exam today! - Apr. 08, 2025
Congratulations to Yichen (Henry) Liu, he passed his qualifying exam today! - Mar. 27, 2025
Congratulations to Yunfei Hu, he passed his qualifying exam today! - Mar. 19, 2024
Congratulations to Can Luo, she passed her qualifying exam today! - Nov. 16, 2022
Yunfei Hu and Yichen Liu pass their CS Ph.D. prelim exams. - May. 4, 2022
Parth Datar successfully defended his CS Master’s thesis in April 22~
Grants
- Mar. 27, 2025
We received the CCSB Accelerator Fund in collaboration with Dr. Meltzer’s lab. - Dec. 19, 2024
Our proposal for spatial transcriptomics research has been selected as an awardee for the Seeding Success - Fall 2024 cycle. - Aug. 2, 2023
Our R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) supplement proposal was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! Many thanks for the support! - Feb. 9, 2023
We received the TIPs Award for Novel Ideas in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt Brain Institute! - Dec. 16, 2022
We received funding support from Complete Genomics for stLFR research! - Sep. 20, 2022
Our R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) proposal was funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The grant will support our work on algorithm design for structural variant detection through different high-throughput sequencing data. We are so excited!
Invited Talk (External Conference/Seminar)
- Mar. 14, 2026
Maizie was invited to give a talk titled “Domain identification, integration, and 3D reconstruction with spatial transcriptomics data” on Saturday, March 28, 2026, The 22nd Annual Meeting of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) at Tampa, Florida. - Aug. 19, 2025
Maizie was invited to give a talk titled “Integrative and 3D spatial transcriptomics: interpretable embeddings, interpolation, and cell–cell communication” at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston in August 2026. - Oct. 20, 2025
Maizie was invited to give a colloquium talk titled “Domain identification, integration, and 3D reconstruction with spatial transcriptomics data” on Thursday, March 19, 2026, at the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University. - Mar. 27, 2025
Maizie was invited to give a seminar talk titled “Domain identification, integration, and 3D reconstruction with spatial transcriptomics data” on Friday, May 02, 2025, at the Department of Computer Science of Hong Kong Baptist University. - Dec. 12, 2022
Maizie was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Spatial Biology Congress in June 2023, presenting a talk titled “Autoencoder with differentially expressed genes and imputation for robust spatial transcriptomics clustering and integration”. - Nov. 14, 2022
Maizie was invited to give a data science talk titled “Big genomic data: algorithm design and applications” on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at the Department of Computer Science of Tennessee State University. - Aug. 28, 2022
Maizie was invited to give a colloquium talk titled “Methods for characterizing structural variants with high-throughput sequencing data” on Friday, November 18, 2022, at the Department of Computer Science of Florida State University. - Apr. 18, 2022
Maizie was invited to give a talk on April 22 at the 6th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS), sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Informatics Institute and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, titled “Methods for characterizing structural variants with high-throughput sequencing data”. - Jan. 25, 2022
Maizie was invited to present a research seminar at the Bioengineering Department of the University of Toledo on Friday, April 1, 2022, titled “Methods for characterizing structural variants with high-throughput sequencing data”. - Dec. 13, 2021
Maizie was invited to present a virtual research seminar at the University of Arkansas Department of Biomedical Engineering on Friday, March 18, 2022, titled “Methods for characterizing structural variants with high-throughput sequencing data”.
