Dr. Xuekui Zhang

Dr. Xuekui Zhang

Associate Professor at UVic,
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair,
MSFHR Scholar

Publications

Recently Published Papers (Selected)

Trainnees are underlined, last/corresponding authors denoted by *. Full list of publications can be found on my Google Scholar page.
  1. Chen C and Zhang X. From bench to bedside, 2-in-1 design expedites phase 2/3 oncology drug development. 2023, Frontiers in Oncology, Link to Paper
  2. Zhang X, Huang X, and Xing L. ADSP: An Adaptive Sample Pooling Strategy for Diagnostic Testing. 2023, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Link to Paper
  3. Zhang X, Jia H, Xing L, and Chen C. Application of group sequential methods to the 2-in-1 design and its extensions for interim monitoring. 2023, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, Link to Paper
  4. Ji X, Tsao D, Bai K, Tsao M, Xing L, and Zhang X*. scAnnotate: an automated cell type annotation tool for single-cell RNA-sequencing data. 2023, Bioinformatics Advance, Link to Paper and R package
  5. You S, Huang X, Xing L, Lesperance M, LeBlanc C, Moccia P, Mercier V, Shao X, Pan Y*, Zhang X*. 2023, Dynamics of Fecal Coliform Bacteria along Canada’s Coast. Marine Pollution Bulletin (impact factor 7.001) Link to Paper
  6. Zhang X, Huang Y , Xu K, Xing L. Novel Modelling Strategies for High-frequency Stock Trading Data. 2023， Financial Innovation (impact factor 6.793) Link to Paper and GitHub code
  7. Guo Y , Esfahani F, Shao X, Srinivasan V, Thomo A, Xing L, Zhang X*. Integrative COVID-19 Biological Network Inference with Probabilistic Core Decomposition. 2021， Briefings in Bioinformatics (impact factor 13.994) Link to Paper
  8. Huang X , Shao X, Xing L, Hu Y, Sin DD*, Zhang X*. The impact of lockdown timing on COVID-19 transmission across US counties. 2021， EClinicalMedicine (a journal published by the Lancet, impact factor 17.033) Link to Paper
  9. Xing L, Zhang X, Burstyn I， Gustafson P. On logistic Box–Cox regression for flexibly estimating the shape and strength of exposure‐disease relationships. 2021，Canadian Journal of Statistics Link to Paper , （ Statistics Society of Canada 2022 CJS Award ）
  10. Lu Y, Zhou J, Xing L, Zhang X*. The Optimal Design of Clinical Trials with Potential Biomarker Effects, A Novel Computational Approach. 2021， Statistics in Medicine Link to Paper and Software package
    ( The first author is an intern undergraduate student in my lab, who lead programming and 1st draft preparation of this project.)
  11. Xu K, Zheng X, Xing L, Zhang X. Stock Market Openness and Market Quality: Evidence from the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect Program. 2020， Journal of Financial Research Link to Paper
  12. Xing L, Lesperance ML, Zhang X*. Simultaneous prediction of multiple outcomes using revised stacking algorithms. 2020， Bioinformatics Link to Paper and Software package
  13. Xu Y, Xing L, Su J, Zhang X*, Qiu W*. Model-based clustering for identifying disease-associated SNPs in case-control genome-wide association studies. 2019， Scientific Reports Link of Paper and Software package

Software

scAnnotate: An Automated Cell Type Annotation Tool for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data. CRAN

DesignCTPB: Design Clinical Trials with Potential Biomarker Effect. CRAN

MTPS: Multi-Task Prediction using Stacking Algorithms. CRAN

GWASbyCluster: Identifying disease-associated significant SNPs using clustering approach. CRAN

PICS: Probabilistic inference of ChIP-Seq using an empirical Bayes mixture model approach. Bioconductor

PING: Probabilistic inference for Nucleosome Positioning with MNase-based or Sonicated Short-read Data. Bioconductor