I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, advised by Dr. Bingxin Zhao. I received my Ph.D in Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), advised by Dr. Yun Li and Dr. Didong Li. My research focuses on statistical genetics/genomics and machine learning, particularly on spatial omics and Gaussian Process.
Research Interests
- AI4Science
- Spatial statistics
- Gaussian process
- Dimension reduction
- Statistical genetics/genomics
News
- Apr 2026Jiawen received the Barry H. Margolin dissertation award.
- Mar 2026Our StarTrail paper on spatial gradients for spatial transcriptomics is accepted by JASA. Check out our GitHub here.
- Sep 2025Caiwei's review paper on clustering methods for multi-slice spatial transcriptomics methods is accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics.
- Nov 2024Wancen and Jiawen's GPlag paper is accepted by Biometrics.
- Sep 2024Our dataset STimage-1K4M is accepted by NeurIPS2024.
- May 2024Our dataset STimage-1K4M is publicly available now! Access it at HuggingFace.
Earlier news
- Mar 2024Jiawen won the MCBIOS Young Scientist Excellence Award.
- Sep 2023Our paper "On the identifiability and interpretability of Gaussian process parameters" accepted by NeurIPS2023.
- Mar 2023Our spatial transcriptomics deconvolution method POLARIS published by Science Advances.
- Jun 2022Our spatial transcriptomics deconvolution review paper published by Briefings in Bioinformatics.