Yuchao Jiang, PhD
About
Dr. Yuchao Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Genetics at UNC. He is also a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.Honors and Awards
Teaching Innovation Award
2020, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
2020, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Computational Medicine Program Pilot Award
2019, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Developmental Award
2018, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Representative Courses
Introduction to Machine Learning (BIOS 635)
Statistical Methods for Gene Expression Analysis (BIOS 785)
Research Interests:
Computational Biology, Statistical Genetics, Statistical GenomicsKey Publications
SCOPE: a normalization and copy number estimation method for single-cell DNA sequencing. Wang R, Lin D, Jiang Y. (2020). Cell Systems, 10(5), 445-452.
Destin: toolkit for single-cell analysis of chromatin accessibility. Urrutia E., Chen L., Zhou H., and Jiang Y. (2019). Bioinformatics.
CODEX2: full-spectrum copy number variation detection by high-throughput DNA sequencing. Jiang Y, Wang R, Urrutia E, Anastopoulos IN, Nathanson KL, Zhang NR. (2018). Genome Biology, 19(1), 202.
Differential damage and repair of DNA-adducts induced by anti-cancer drug cisplatin across mouse organs. Yimit A., Adebali O., Sancar A., and Jiang Y. (2019). Nature Communications, 10(1).
SCALE: modeling allele-specific gene expression by single-cell RNA sequencing. Jiang Y, Zhang NR, Li M. (2017). Genome Biology, 18(1), 74.
Education
- PhD, Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, 2017
- MA, Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, 2014
- BS, Computational Biology, Cornell University, 2012
