LIN, Zhixiang 林志翔Position Assistant Professor
Email zhixianglin [at] cuhk.edu.hk
Phone Number 3943 7921
Fax Number 2603 5188
Address LSB 118A
Homepage https://www.sta.cuhk.edu.hk/zxlin/


Academic BackgroundB.S. Tsinghua University
M.A. Yale University
Ph.D. Yale University
Research InterestBayesian StatisticsBig DataComputational Biology & BioinformaticsStatistical Machine Learning

Selected Publications(updated on November 8, 2021; see homepage for full up-to-date list; homepage requires access to Google)
In the author list, boldface indicates group members; * represents equal contribution; and???represents?the corresponding author.
Wangwu J,?Sun Z,?Lin Z?:?scAMACE: Model-based approach to the joint analysis of single-cell data on chromatin accessibility, gene expression and methylation.?Bioinformatics?(in press)?[paper link]
Chen S*, Yan G*,?Zhang W, Li J, Jiang R?,?Lin Z?: RA3 is a reference-guided approach for epigenetic characterization of single cells.?Nature Communications?2021, 12:2177.?[paper link]
Zeng P,?Lin Z?:?coupleCoC+: an information-theoretic co-clustering-based transfer learning framework for the integrative analysis of single-cell genomic data.?PLOS Computational Biology?2021, 17(6): e1009064.?[paper link]
Zeng P,?Wangwu J,?Lin Z?:?Coupled Co-clustering-based Unsupervised Transfer Learning for the Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Genomic Data.??Briefings in Bioinformatics?2020,?bbaa347.?[paper link]
Zhang S, Yang L,?Yang J,?Lin Z, Ng KM:?Dimensionality reduction for single cell RNA sequencing data using constrained robust non-negative matrix factorization.?NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics?2020, 2(3): lqaa064.?[paper link]
Lin Z?, Zamanighomi M, Daley T, Ma S and Wong WH?:?Model-based approach to the joint analysis of single-cell data on chromatin accessibility and gene expression.?Statistical?Science?2020, 35(1):2-13.?[paper link]
Zhang W,?Wangwu J?and?Lin Z?:?Weighted?K-means Clustering with Observation Weight for Single-cell Epigenomic Data.?Statistical Modeling in Biomedical Research,?book chapter?p37-64.?[paper link]
Mingfeng Li, …,?BrainSpan Consortium*, …, Nenad Sestan:?Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks.?Science. 2018, 362:6420. BrainSpan Consortium*: Zhixiang Lin is a member of the BrainSpan consortium. In the collaboration with Nenad Sestan, the method AC-PCA is implemented in this paper for novel biological findings.
Daley T?,?Lin Z, Bhate S, Lin X, Liu Y, Wong, WH, and Qi L:?CRISPhieRmix: a hierarchical mixture model for CRISPR pooled screens.?Genome Biology. 2018, 19:159.
Zamanighomi M*,?Lin Z*, Daley T*, Chen Xi , Zhana Duren, Schep A, Greenleaf WJ, and Wong WH?: Unsupervised clustering and epigenetic classification of single cells.?Nature Communications. 2018, 9:2410. [paper link] [software link]
Zamanighomi M,?Lin Z, Wang Y, Jiang R, and Wong WH?: Predicting transcription factor binding motifs from DNA-binding domains, chromatin accessibility, and gene expression data.?Nucleic Acids Research. 2017, 45(10): 5666-5677.?[paper link]
Lin Z,?Wang T, Yang C, and Zhao H?: On joint estimation of Gaussian graphical models for spatial and temporal data.?Biometrics. 2017, 73: 769-779.?[paper link] [software link]
Lin Z, Yang C, Zhu Y, Duchi JC, Fu Y, Wang Y, Jiang B, Zamanighomi M, Xu X, Li M, Sestan N, Zhao H?, and Wong WH?: Simultaneous dimension reduction and adjustment for confounding variation.?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2016, 113 (51): 14662-14667.?[paper link] [software link]
Lin Z, Sanders SJ, Li M, Sestan N, State MW and Zhao H?:?A Markov Random Field-based approach to characterizing human brain developments using spatial-temporal transcriptome data.?Annals of Applied Statistics?2015, 9 (1): 429-451.?[paper link]
Willsey AJ, Sanders SJ, Li M, Tebbenkamp AT, Muhle RA, Reilly SK, Lin Z, Fertuzinhos S, Miller JA, Murtha MT, Bichsel C, Niu W, Cotney J, Gulhan A, Gockley J, Gupta A, Han W, He X, Homan E, Klei L, Lei J, Liu W, Liu L, Lu C, Xu X, Zhu Y, Mane SM, Lein ES, Wei L, Noonan JP, Roeder K, Devlin B?, Sestan N??and State MW?:?Co-expression networks implicate human mid-fetal deep cortical projection neurons in the pathogenesis of autism.?Cell?2013, 155 (5): 997-1007.




Graduate StudentsJiaxuan Wangwu, PhD student, 2018-present
Wenyu Zhang, PhD student, 2019-present
Zheng Zhang, PhD student, 2020-present
Weiwei Xu, MPhil student, 2020-present
Jinzhao Li, PhD student, 2021-present
Past Graduate Students:Jinzhao Li, MPhil student, 2019-2021.?Next position: PhD in Statistics, CUHK

Competitive External Research GrantsRGC-ECS 24301419
awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: A unified framework for jointly modeling and clustering multiple data types in single-cell genomics
2019-2022, Principal Investigator
RGC-GRF 14301120
awarded by the Research Grants Council
Title: Statistical methods for dimension reduction in single-cell genomics leveraging bulk genomic data
2020-2023, Principal Investigator







TeachingSTAT4001 Data Mining and Statistical Learning
STAT4002 Applied Multivariate Analysis

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Honors and AwardsPredoctoral award in basic science, Association of Chinese Geneticists in America,? 2012
(Awarded to my PhD student Jiaxuan Wangwu) Champion in 2021-2022 Science Faculty Postgraduate Research Day’s Best Presentation Award, CUHK
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Professional ServiceInvited Editor, Quantitative Biology (2021-05 to present)?
Membership:?American Statistical Association, International Chinese Statistical Association
Reviewer for Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Applied Statistics,?Bayesian Analysis, Biometrics, Statistica Sinica, Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, PLOS Computational Biology, Cell Systems, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics
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