Jiazhang Cai

Incoming Postdoctoral Researcher, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I work on computational biology, mainly spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics, and AI for bioinformatics.

Jiazhang Cai
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About me

I recently completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Georgia, advised by Prof. Ping Ma, and I am joining the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a postdoctoral researcher in computational biology. My work sits between statistics and biology: I build methods for high-dimensional biological data such as spatial transcriptomics, multi-omics measurements, and biological sequences.

I care about more than just prediction accuracy. I try to make models that are interpretable and that can report how confident they are, and I keep them tied to the underlying biology. The tools I use include non-parametric statistics, diffusion models, ensemble learning, network analysis, and large language models.

I have authored more than 20 papers across statistics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research, and I collaborate with labs at Mount Sinai, UGA, and IBM Research.

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Happy to talk about spatial omics, uncertainty-aware machine learning, and AI for biology.