Woke up to some very exciting news. I've been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, here at USC! 🎉 I'm truly grateful for all of the support and mentorship I've had to get to this point, as well as all of the hard work and effort from trainees.

Notification of tenure! So many people to thank, my wife and foundation Simone, family, members of the lab: Soyeon Ahn, Jingwen Ren, Robel Dagnew, Tsung-Yu Lu, Quentin Yang, Keon Rabbani, Walfred Ma, Ishaan Thota, Seung-Jae Kim, and Dhaivat Joshi, the USC Dept. of Quantitative & Computational Biology

So proud that this work is now published AJHG. It was truly an effort of a team of undergrad students (at the time), led by Jordan Cahoon. It was also a project used to introduce new grad students or others just getting into genomic analysis - the team effort really worked out!

Veera Rajagopal  My former post-doc lab and a few current colleagues❤️💪

30 years ago today, the episode that gave birth to this meme premiered.

Congratulations to Jordan Cahoon - for winning one of USC’s Discovery Scholars for excellence in research, and also the Barry Goldwater Scholarship (as a junior)! You taught me how far a motivated UG can go. I am so proud of you and can’t wait to see what you will achieve!

As Webb celebrates its second birthday in space, here are the 10 best James Webb Space Telescope photos so far. petapixel.com/2024/07/20/the…

This is awesome. Many children with glasses are told they can’t play certain sports. They are not even given the opportunity to try. To see an athlete at the top of his sport proudly wearing glasses is so important. Representation matters.

whenever I have to send one of my python scripts to someone else

“Why use the Oxford comma?”

Python | Fortran

My hard drive when I'm downloading summary statistics and Safari is about to decompress every file automatically:

I have received tenure! I got here thanks to the support from my students, colleagues, mentors and home institution ( LIIGH ). I plan to continue doing research on Theoretical Population Genetics and developing methods to understand how Evolution has shaped our past.

The USC/QBIO department is now accepting applications for the CBB PhD program. Please share with any interested undergraduate and Master's students. qcb-dornsife.usc.edu/application We will have zoom information sessions Nov 1 and 15, please contact me directly for a registration link.

Did you know you can do dot product in Excel? #pleasedontaskaboutthedecisionsthatledtolearningthis

I will present my poster Wed afternoon about single cell eQTL mapping using scalable count models. I m also looking for post doc lab. Happy to chat! 😊

If you’re at #ASHG24 stop on by!

When you find out the hotel at the conference has a breakfast buffet:

I will be hosting an information session for applicants to the USC Computational Biology and Bioinformatics PhD program, discussing research topics and application strategies. If you are registering with a non-institutional e-mail, please let me know tinyurl.com/cbb-qbio-info

Excited to share my first preprint from Charleston Chiang lab. We developed a genealogy-based method for revealing ancestry-specific structures in admixed populations. Interested in this topic? Please read the thread🧵, we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!