Xiran Liu Computational biology and population genetics

Talks

November 2025 · Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Clustering alignment for single-cell analyses: streamlining model comparison and revealing informative genes

Genome Informatics 2025

Ongoing work on alignment-enabled single-cell analysis, robust clustering comparison, and informative gene discovery.

Clustering alignment for single-cell analyses: streamlining model comparison and revealing informative genes

April 2025 · Seoul, Korea

ML-MAGES: A machine learning framework for multivariate genetic association analyses with genes and effect size shrinkage

The Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2025 Conference

Introduced ML-MAGES for efficient, multi-trait interpretation of genetic association signals.

June 2023 · Albuquerque, NM

A Dirichlet model of alignment cost in mixed-membership clustering results of ancestry inference

Evolution 2023

Presented theoretical work on alignment cost in mixed-membership clustering.

October 2022 · Stanford, CA

Clumppling: a new method for aligning replicate solutions in population structure analysis

Bay Area Population Genetics Meeting

Introduced Clumppling for aligning and interpreting replicate population structure runs.