"Quantifying the Clusterness and Trajectoriness of Single-cell RNA-seq Data" 

Peng Qiu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Emory University School of Medicine

Bio
Peng Qiu, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland. His research interests are in the areas of bioinformatics and computational biology with a focus on statistical signal processing, machine learning, control systems and optimization.

Research
The Qiu lab research is focused on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics. The overarching goal is to develop novel computational methods for advancing biological discoveries. Current research projects include machine learning analysis on single-cell data, multi-omics integration in cancer, experimental design and model reduction in systems biology.

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