People
Principal Investigator
Bio
Xin Tang is an Assistant Professor of Michael Smith Laboratories and the Department
of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He is a
Canada Research Chair Tier II in Computational Cell Biology.
He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and the Broad
Institute of MIT and Harvard. At UBC, his lab focuses on developing and applying
state-of-the-art AI models in to better understand biological systems at single-cell
resolution through multiple modalities and scales at the molecular, structural,
functional, and behavioral levels.
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Graduate Students
PhD Student, Computer Science, UBC, co-supervised with Dr. Margo Seltzer
Research interest
Neurodegenerative diseases, Machine Learning
Personal interest
Singing, playing the guitar, songwriting, writing fiction
Master Student, Computer Science, UBC
Research interest
AI/ML for Biology, Deep Learning
Personal interest
Reading, Sightseeing, History
Previously
Previously Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Toronto
PhD Student, Computer Science, UBC
Research interest
AI for Biology and Neuroscience, LLMs, Foundation Models
Personal interest
Sleeping, Basketball
Previously
Previously Master in Computer Science from Tongji University
PhD Student, Bioinformatics, UBC
Research interest
AI for Biomedicine, Multimodal Data Integration, Knowledge Inference
Personal interest
Snowboarding, Running, Hiking
Previously
Previously Dual Master in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
and the Technical University of Berlin
Undergraduate Students
Computer Science Undergraduate Research Intern, UBC
Research interest
Brain-Computer Interface, Computational Neuroscience, Explainable/Interpretable AI
Personal interest
playing ping-pong, watching soccer games
ISCI (Computer Science and Neuroimmunology) Undergraduate Research Intern, UBC
Research interest
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Translational Neuroscience, Multimodal Learning
Personal interest
Running, Reading, Chess
Remote Research Intern
Research Intern, UBC
Research interests
Brain-Computer Interface, Physiological signals
Personal Interests
Daydreaming
Previously
Previously Bachelor of Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and and MPhil
from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alumni
