News
A chronological record of publications, talks, and milestones. Filter by category below.
Jun 2026
Attended the HuBMAP Final Hurrah and Spatial Biology meetings at the NIH.
Milestone
May 2026
Version of record published in eLife: off-target probe binding in 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels, introducing the Off-target Probe Tracker (OPT) tool.
Publication
2026
Gave a talk, “Understanding Spatial Transcriptomics and Evaluating Probe Accuracy in 10x Genomics Xenium Technology,” at the Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Seminar, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA.
Talk
2026
Gave a talk, “Predicting 3D Molecular Maps from 2D Histology using Deep Learning,” at the Genomics Joint Lab Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Talk
Dec 2025
New bioRxiv preprint, STARIT, characterizing cell states with subcellular molecular heterogeneity in spatial transcriptomics data.
Publication
Sep 2025
New bioRxiv preprint on how molecular and image data quality shapes deep-learning prediction of spatial transcriptomics from histology.
Publication
Aug 2025
spatialMNN published in Bioinformatics — an algorithm for integrating multiple spatial transcriptomics samples and identifying spatial domains (code).
Publication
Apr 2025
PHet published in Nature Communications — a heterogeneity-preserving feature-selection method for disease-specific subtype discovery (co-first author).
Publication
2025
Gave a talk, “Impact of Data Quality on Gene Expression Prediction using Deep Learning on Histopathology Images,” at the Genomics Joint Lab Meeting, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Talk
2025
Presented a poster, “Impact of Data Quality on Deep Learning Prediction of Spatial Transcriptomics from Histology Images,” at the AI in Molecular Biology Keystone Symposia, Santa Fe, NM.
Talk
Jan 2025
Co-authored “Breast Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Modulate the Cytoplasmic and Cytoskeletal Dynamics of Blood-Brain Barrier Endothelial Cells”, published in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
Publication
2023
Presented a poster, “Phenotyping of Heterogeneous Live Cell Motility and Morphology,” at the Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Talk
2022
Gave a talk, “Deconvolution of Cellular Heterogeneity for Sub-Type Discovery by Analyzing Feature Variation,” at the Vascular Biology Program Work in Progress, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Talk
2022
Gave a talk, “Machine Learning Approaches Applied to the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Cell Motility Phenotyping,” at the Vascular Biology Program Work in Progress, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Talk
2022
Presented a poster, “Deep-Hetero: A Deep Metric Learning with UMAP-based Clustering Approach for Identifying Heterogeneity in Cells,” at the Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Talk
2021
Gave a talk, “Ultrasound Microbubble Tumor Analysis,” at the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Summer Intern Presentations, Charlottesville, VA.
Talk