Hua-Sheng Chiu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics-Oncology
Texas Children's Hospital, ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital - Feigin Center (Office)
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1102 Bates Avenue
Room: TXFC-C1220.10
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Education
- PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York
- 12/2013 - New York, New York, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track
- MPH from Columbia University in the City of New York
- 06/2012 - New York, New York, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track
- MA from Columbia University in the City of New York
- 10/2011 - New York, New York, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track
Honors & Awards
- Young Investigator Travel Fellowship Award
- Symposia on Cancer Research: Genomic Medicine (10/2013)
- Travel Fellowship Award
- The RNA Society (05/2015)
- Honorary Member
- The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
- Cancers 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards
- MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) (01/2020 - 12/2020)
- Editorial Review Board
- SAGE Journals: Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (TCRT) (12/2021)
- Editorial Review Board
- MDPI Journals: Cancers (06/2020)
- Editorial Review Board
- MDPI Journals: Microorganisms (12/2020)
- Editorial Review Board
- MDPI Journals: Non-Coding RNA (01/2021)
- Graduate Student Fellowship
- Columbia University in the City of New York (09/2009 - 08/2010)
- Best Master’s Thesis Award
- Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Studying Abroad Scholarship
- Ministry of Education, Taiwan (09/2009 - 08/2011)
- Undergraduate Graduation with Distinction (1%)
- National Central University
Professional Interests
- MicroRNA
- Long noncoding RNA
- Competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA)
- Computational systems biology of cancer
- Integrative genomics
- Machine learning
- Data science
Websites
Prediction of ceRNA interactions
Simultaneous prediction of miRNA-targets and ceRNAs
Prediction of regulation by lncRNA including decoy, cofactor, guide, and switch
Professional Development
- Keystone Symposia: MicroRNAs and Noncoding RNAs in Cancer
- Conference (Participant, 2015)
- RNA 2015
- Conference (Participant, 2015)
- Cell Symposia: Regulatory RNAs
- Conference (Presenter, 2011)
- Symposia on Cancer Research: ncRNA in Disease and Cancer
- Conference (Participant, 2014)
- American Society of Human Genetics
- Conference (Participant, 2013)
- Symposia on Cancer Research: Genomic Medicine
- Conference (Participant, 2013)
- Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Symposium
- Conference (Presenter, 2013)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Systems Biology: Networks
- Conference (Participant, 2013)
- The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) 1st Annual Scientific Symposium
- Conference (Participant, 2011)
- International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
- Conference (Participant, 2004)
- RECOMB Satellite Joint Conference on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics
- Conference (Participant, 2010)
- IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
- Conference (Participant, 2009)
- Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
- Conference (Participant, 2006)
Selected Publications
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Chiu HS *, Somvanshi S *, et al. " " Cell Reports. 2018 Apr 3; 23 (1) : 297-312.
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Chiu HS *, Llobet-Navas D *, et al. " " Genome Research. 2015 Feb 10; 25 (2) : 257-67.
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Sumazin P *, Yang X *, Chiu HS *, et al. " " Cell. 2011 Oct 14; 147 (2) : 370-381.
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Chiu HS et al. " " BMC Genomics. 2017 May 30; 18 (1) : 418.
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Memberships
- The RNA Society
- Member (01/2015 - 12/2015)
- The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
- Member (10/2013 - 10/2014)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Member (02/2012 - 01/2014)
- Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI)
- The Lifetime Membership (09/2004)
Skills
- Programming language: C/C++, MATLAB, R
- Molecular Biology: Cell Culture, Western Blot, qRT-PCR, Proliferation Assay, Migration Assay
- Analysis of large-scale data, e.g., RNA-Seq or small RNA-Seq
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Min)
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