Group leader

Yuanhua Huang (黃淵華)

Associate Professor in bioinformatics

Email: yuanhua <at> hku.hk
Tel: +852 3917 9525
Departmental page

Current Team Member

Fangxin Cai (蔡方昕)

PhD student (HKPF, 2022.09-)

Bsc Biochem (minors Math & CS), HKU

Project> Sequence modelling in scRNA+ATAC

Email GitHub
Hoi Man Chung, Kevin

PhD student (initially MPhil; 2023.09-)

BBMS Biomed Sci & Physics, MPhil HKU

Project> Representation learning in single-cell SNVs

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Bingxue Du (杜冰雪)

Postdoctoral fellow, joint with Jason Wong's lab (2025.01-)

PhD Bioinfo, Northwestern Polytech U

Project> Deep learning in spatial RNA + metabolomics

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Xianjie Huang (黃先傑)

PhD student (initially RA; 2020.06-)

Bsc & Msc Biology, Nanjing U

Project> Copy number alteration modelling in sc & spatial RNA-seq

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Lingyu Li (李玲玉)

Postdoctoral fellow (2023.08-)

PhD Bioinformatics, Shandong University

Project> Deep learning in histology-enhanced spatial RNA-seq

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Ye Liu (劉燁)

Joint PhD student (HKU-Shenzhen Hospital program, 2025.09-)

Bsc Food Q&S, China Agricultural U; Msc Food Safety in Wageningen U

Project> copy number alteration modelling from embryo culture medium

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Jiamu Qiao, James (喬嘉沐)

PhD student (HKU-PS, 2025.09-)

Bsc Biotech & minor comp sci, HKU (exchanged UCSD)

Project> Copy number alternation modelling in spatial RNA-seq

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Tianjie Wang, Jacky (王天傑)

PhD student (2024.09-)

Msc Data Science, Bsc Math / Decision Analytics, HKU

Project> Deep learning modelling of spatial RNA-seq

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Lu Yu, Lousia (于璐)

PhD student (initially RA; 2022.12-)

Msc Stats, NU Singapore, Bsc Info Management & Syst, Southeast U

Project> Multimodal AI in embryo-endomisium system

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Closely co-supervised or part-time students

  • Yiming Chao, PhD student (with Dr Rio Sugimura)
  • Joy Zheng, MPhil Student (with Dr Mu He)
  • Chrissy Ma, PhD Student (with Dr Joshua Ho)
  • Aeon Kwok, MBBS Student Y3 / Msc Med Sci (with Prof Gilberto Leung)

Alumni

  • Shumin Li (Joint Postdoc 2024.04-2025.12) -> Assistant Professor at Shenzhen U (School of AI)
  • Ruiyan Hou (PhD 2021.09-2025.06; exchanged at MD Anderson) -> Postdoc at CUHK (recipient of NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (Oversea) 2025)
  • Mingze Gao (PhD 2021.01-2025.06; interned Tencent AI lab) -> Postdoc at InnoHK CTSCB
  • Rongting Huang (PhD 2020.09-2024.12; exchanged Harvard Medical School) -> CRI postdoc fellow at Stanford U
  • Xinyi Lin (Joint PhD 2020.09-2024.11; exchanged Tsinghua) -> Postdoc at A* STAR
  • Zhuoxuan Li (Joint PhD 2020.09-2024.12) -> Founder & CEO of Saint Novel Biotech
  • Zhihan Xu (AI engineer / RA 2023.06-2024.04) -> AI Consultant, UK
  • Chen Cheng (MPhil 2021.09-2024.04) -> RA (incoming PhD) at PKU
  • Weizhong Zheng (Joint PhD 2020.06-2023.11) -> Postdoc at Göttgens lab, Cambridge
  • Chen Qiao (Postdoc 2020.06-2022.10) -> Sr AI engineer at Illumina, Singapore
  • Wing Cheung Kwok, Aaron (Joint MPhil 2019.12-2021.11) -> PhD at U Melbourne
  • Short-term visitor
  • Elena Buscaroli (Visiting PhD 2025.06-2024.08) -> back to U Trieste
  • Yiyi Cheng (Visiting PhD 2025.04-2024.06) -> back to U Glasgow
  • Jun Wang (Visiting PhD 2024.06-2024.08) -> back to Copenhagen U
  • Yijun Liu (Visiting PhD 2023.01-2024.04) -> back to Jilin U
  • Dandan Cao (Visiting scientist 2023.05-2023.08) -> back to HKU-SZH
  • HKU undergraduates
  • Owen Deng (UG FYP 2023-2024)
  • Eunhye Yang, Grace (UG FYP 2022-2023) -> MPhil Bioinfo at HKU
  • Joy Zheng (UG FYP 2021-2022) -> MPhil Comp Bio at HKU
  • Haoshengzhe Yu (UG FYP 2021-2022) -> Msc CS (-> PhD Bioinfo) at U Chicago
  • Yat Kwan Lam, Jerry (UG final year project, 2020-2021)
  • Yin Hei Lam, Julia (UG final year project, 2020-2021)