Student-led Projects

• Juan Shu et al., Inferring multi-organ genetic connections using imaging and clinical data through Mendelian randomization (2025). Nature Biomedical Engineering, accepted. 

(2023 ASHG Reviewers' Choice Award Winner (top 10%))

• Buxin Su et al., How to find fantastic papers: Self-rankings as a powerful predictor of scientific impact beyond peer review (2025). arXiv.  

• Juan Shu et al., Contextualizing molecular and structural aging across human organs (2025). medRxiv.

• Buxin Su et al., On self-training of summary data with genetic applications (2025). arXiv.  

• Zirui Fan et al., The landscape of plasma proteomic links to human organ imaging (2025). medXiv. 

• Xiaojing Sun et al., Generalized heterogeneous functional model with applications to large-scale mobile health data (2025). arXiv. 

     (2025 ICSA Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award)

     (2024 ASA Student Paper Competition Award Honorable Mention, Mental Health Statistics Section)

• Haoxuan Fu et al., Uncertainty of high-dimensional genetic data prediction with polygenic risk scores (2024). arXiv. 

• Yijun Fan et al., Mapping rare protein-coding variants on multi-organ imaging traits (2024). medRxiv. 

     (2024 ASHG Reviewers' Choice Award Winner (top 10%))

• Buxin Su et al., The exact risks of reference panel-based regularized estimators (2024). arXiv. 

     (2024 ASA Student Paper Competition Award Winner, Statistical Learning and Data Science Section)

• Zirui Fan et al., The role of sleep in the human brain and body: insights from multi-organ imaging genetics (2024). medRxiv. 

• Yujue Li et al., Analyzing cross-trait genetic architecture with the BIGA cloud computing platform (2023). bioRxiv. 

• Xiaochen Yang et al., Multi-organ imaging-derived polygenic indexes for brain and body health (2023). medRxiv.

     (2024 ASA Student Paper Competition Award Winner, Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics) 

    (2023 ASHG Reviewers' Choice Award Winner (top 10%))

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