Publications, research updates, and academic service.
Two Zhang Lab papers accepted to NeurIPS 2026: TargetSage, an interpretable and robust LLM framework for therapeutic-target identification.
sMMC-22M, a context-aware dataset and benchmark for single-cell spatial transcriptomics, accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
MUGO: Differentiable Combinatorial Optimization for Causal Variant Discovery in the Non-coding Genome — KDD 2026.
Central amygdala single-nucleus atlas of human alcohol use disorder published in Nature Communications.
MUSE: A Multi-slice Joint Analysis Method for Spatial Transcriptomics Experiments — CIKM 2025.
MetaVelo / Identifying Combinatorial Regulatory Genes for Cell Fate Decision via Reparameterizable Subset Explanations — KDD 2025.
Single-cell transcriptomic and chromatin dynamics of the human brain in PTSD published in Nature.
PsychENCODE single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains published in Science.