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RA recruitment: I am looking for Research Assistants and Visiting Students in computer science and bioinformatics. Please email me if interested.

Research Interests:

• AI for biology
• Machine learning and deep learning
• Precision medicine
• Multiomics

Education:

• Aug 2018 – Aug 2022, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• 2015 – 2016, Master, The University of Hong Kong.
• 2010 – 2014, Bachelor, Zhejiang University.

Selected Publications:

(* corresponding author; # co-first author; IF, Impact Factor)

• Qizhi Li#, Xubin Zheng#, Jize Xie#, Ran Wang, Mengyao Li, Man-Hon Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, Shuai Li, Qingshan Geng*, and Lixin Cheng*.
  bvnGPS: a generalizable diagnostic model for acute bacterial and viral infection using integrative host transcriptomics and pretrained neural networks.
  Bioinformatics, 2023. Full Text

• Ran Wang, Xubin Zheng, Fangda Song, Man Hon Wong, Kwong Sak Leung, and Lixin Cheng*.
  Deciphering associations between gut microbiota and clinical factors using microbial modules.
  Bioinformatics, 2023.

• Lixin Cheng#*, Haonan Wu#, Xubin Zheng, Ning Zhang, Pengfei Zhao, Ran Wang, Qiong Wu, Tao Liu, Xiaojun Yang, and Qingshan Geng*.
  GPGPS: a robust prognostic gene pair signature of glioma ensembling IDH mutation and 1p/19q co-deletion.
  Bioinformatics, 2023. Full Text

• Qiong Wu#, Xubin Zheng#, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui*, and Lixin Cheng*.
  meGPS: a multi-omics signature for hepatocellular carcinoma detection integrating methylome and transcriptome data.
  Bioinformatics, 2022. Full Text

• Ran Wang, Xubin Zheng, Jun Wang, Shibiao Wan, Fangda Song, Man-Hon Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, and Lixin Cheng*.
  Improving bulk RNA-seq classification by transferring gene signature from single cells in acute myeloid leukemia.
  Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022. Full Text

• Haili Li#, Xubin Zheng#, Jing Gao, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong, Shu Yang, Yakun Liu, Ming Dong, Huimin Bai, Xiufeng Ye*, and Lixin Cheng*.
  Whole transcriptome analysis reveals non-coding RNA’s competing endogenous gene pairs as novel form of motifs in serous ovarian cancer.
  Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022. Full Text

• Xubin Zheng, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong, and Lixin Cheng*.
  Long non-coding RNA Pairs to Assist in Diagnosing Sepsis.
  BMC Genomics, 2021. Full Text

• Yueran Yang#, Yu Zhang#, Shuai Li, Xubin Zheng, Man-Hon Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, and Lixin Cheng*.
  A robust and generalizable immune-related signature for sepsis diagnostics.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2021. Full Text

• Xubin Zheng#, Qiong Wu#, Haonan Wu#, Man-Hon Wong, Kwong Sak Leung, Xueyan Liu*, and Lixin Cheng*. Evaluating the consistency of gene methylation in liver cancer using bisulfite sequencing data.
  Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 2021. Full Text

• Xueyan Liu#, Xubin Zheng#, Jun Wang#, Ning Zhang, Kwong-Sak Leung, Xiufeng Ye*, and Lixin Cheng*.
  A long non-coding RNA signature for diagnostic prediction of sepsis upon ICU admission.
  Clinical and Translational Medicine, 2020. Full Text