Dr. Luo, Ruibang

PhD HK
Assistant Professor

Tel: (+852) 2859 2186
Fax: (+852) 2559 8447
Email: rbluo [AT] cs [DOT] hku [DOT] hk
Homepage: https://www.cs.hku.hkhttps://www.cs.hku.hk/~rbluo


Luo received his B.E. degree in bio-engineering, as the top graduate, from the South China University of Technology in 2010 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Hong Kong in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center of Computational Biology, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Luo is a researcher working on 1) bioinformatics algorithm, 2) precision medicine, 3) metagenomics, and 4) literature mining. His research results have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, and Bioinformatics.
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Research Interests

1) bioinformatics algorithm, 2) precision medicine, 3) metagenomics, and 4) literature mining

Selected Publications

Li et al.,Building a Chinese pan-genome of 486 individuals,Communications Biology 2021
Xie et al., The applications and potentials of nanopore sequencing in the (epi)genome and (epi)transcriptome era,The Innovation 2021
Luo et al.,SARS‐CoV‐2 biology and variants: anticipation of viral evolution and what needs to be done,Environmental Microbiology 2021
Su et al.,RENET2: High-Performance Full-text Gene-Disease Relation Extraction with Iterative Training Data Expansion,NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2021
Luo et al., Exploring the limit of using a deep neural network on pileup data for germline variant calling,Nature Machine Intelligence, 2020
Luo et al., A multi-task convolutional deep neural network for variant calling in single molecule sequencing, Nature Communications 2019
Luo et al., 16GT: a fast and sensitive variant caller using a 16-genotype probabilistic model, Oxford GigaScience 2017
Li et al., MEGAHIT: An ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph, Bioinformatics 2015
Cao et al., De novo assembly of a haplotype-resolved human genome, Nature Biotechnology 2015
Xie et al., SOAPdenovo-Trans: de novo transcriptome assembly with short RNA-Seq reads, Bioinformatics 2014
Luo et al., SOAP3-dp: Fast, Accurate and Sensitive GPU-based Short Read Aligner, PLoS ONE 2013
Zhang et al., Oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and shell formation complexity, Nature 2012
Luo et al., SOAPdenovo2: An empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler, Oxford GigaScience 2012
Li et al., Structural variation in two human genomes mapped at single-nucleotide resolution by whole genome de novo assembly, Nature Biotechnology 2011
Li et al. , Building the sequence map of the human pan-genome, Nature Biotechnology 2010

Recent Research Grants

2021, RGC GRF, PI, "Cancer mutation detection using Single Molecule Sequencing"
2021, ITF PRP, Co-PI, "Cardiovascular risk prediction model for patients on lipid modifying drugs"
2021, ITF ITSP Platform Project, Co-PI, "Towards a Fully-Automated Karyotype Analysis for Detecting Chromosomal Abnormality via Intelligent Bioinformatics and Image Analysis"
2021, RGC TRS, Co-PI, "Assess antibiotic resistome flows from pollution hotspots to environments and explore the control strategies"
2019, RGC TRS, Co-I, "Fighting Disease Recurrence and Promoting Tissue Repair after Liver Transplantation: Translating Basic Discoveries to Clinical Excellence"
2018, ITF ITSP Platform Project, Co-I, Advanced 3GS-based bioinformatics algorithms and a complete bioinformatics solution for clinical genetics
2018, RGC ECS, PI, An Artificial Neural Network-based discriminator for validating clinically significant genomic variants