Selected projects

Methods and resources for predicting therapeutic response, understanding mechanism, and integrating biomedical evidence.

Interpretable drug-response modeling

drGT

Co-developed experiments · Led analysis

A heterogeneous graph model connecting drugs, cell lines, and genes to predict response while producing gene-level, mechanism-oriented attributions.

Biomedical reasoning

DrugAgent

First author · Framework development

A multi-agent framework for integrating heterogeneous and conflicting biomedical evidence for drug-target interaction prediction and drug discovery.

Ongoing thesis work

Treatment-Conditioned Representation Learning

Lead research direction

Learning representations that model biological state together with therapeutic intervention to improve generalization across perturbational and patient contexts.

Explainable graph learning

GraphPINE

First author · Method development

Graph importance propagation for interpretable drug-response prediction, incorporating prior biological relationships into feature importance learning.

Pharmacogenomics resource

CellMinerCDB 2.2

Collaborative research

A cross-database platform for exploring pharmacogenomic relationships across patient-derived cancer cell-line datasets.

Translational cancer research

TRPM4 and Acetalax

Collaborative research

Investigation of TRPM4 as a predictive biomarker and mechanistic driver of Acetalax activity in prostate cancer.

Single-cell transcriptomics

BiGCN

First author · Method development

A bi-graph convolutional approach leveraging cell and gene similarities for single-cell transcriptome imputation.

Reusable research infrastructure

Research Toolbox

Open-source development

Reusable utilities for evaluation, reproducibility, molecular fingerprints, biomedical identifier mapping, caching, PMC XML processing, and scientific visualization.

Open research directions

Research Ideas

Public research notebook

Exploratory questions, candidate projects, and forward-looking directions in therapeutic response modeling and biomedical AI.