

Yuchao Jiang, PhD

Yuchao Jiang, PhD
Honors and Awards
Teaching Innovation Award2020, Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill
Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award2020, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Computational Medicine Program Pilot Award2019, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Developmental Award2018, 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 Genomics
Key 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