Haowen Zhou

I am Haowen Zhou, a first year Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) program at UC San Diego, under the guidance of Dr. Neil C. Chi. My research is rooted in developing explicable and scalable computational approaches to advance integrative multi-modal biological data analysis. I am passionate about creating scalable and robust tools to uncover biological insights from high-dimensional multi-omics datasets.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned my M.S. in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University, where I worked in Dr. Stephanie Hicks’ lab on scalable clustering methods (SpatialMNN) for multi-sample SRT data. I completed my B.S. in Bioscience from Shanghai Jiao Tong University through the prestigious Zhiyuan Honors Program, where I developed a strong foundation in computational biology, genomics, and molecular biology. My undergraduate thesis involved developing advanced computational tools to analyze multi-modality spatial data under the mentorship of Dr. Xiao Wang and Dr. Jing Li.