Xiangyu Luo

Xiangyu Luo is currently a tenure-track Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China (RUC). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2018 and was supervised by Prof.Yingying Wei. Prior to that, Xiangyu Luo graduated from Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2014.

Xiangyu Luo has broad research interests in Bayesian statistics, nonparametric Bayes, statistical genomics, bioinformatics, statistical computing, and statistical learning. He likes involving in developing novel statistical models to solve practical biological problems.

His specific research fields include reconstructing biological regulatory/co-expression networks via statistical graphical models, correcting batch effects in high-throughput genomic data, deconvoluting methylation signals in epigenome-wide association studies, discovering subject heterogeneity at single-cell resolution, and integrating multi-omics data.