Career • 2021.12-present, Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University • 2019.9-2021.11, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong • 2018.5-2019.8, Data Scientist, Bright Dream Robotics Co., Ltd. Education • July 2018, Ph.D. in Statistics, Newcastle University, United Kingdom • July 2014, M.S. in Probability and Statistics, University of Science and Technology of China • July 2011, B.S. in Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology Research Interest My group bridges mathematical statistics and artificial intelligence to tackle challenges in biomedical big data—particularly genomics, functional/curve data, and clinical records. Our core expertise lies in: (a) AI + Statistics with focus on explainability and uncertainty quantification; (b) theory and applications of Functional Data Analysis; and (c) statistical inference for single-cell multi-omics and spatial transcriptomics. Selected Publications Group members (current and past) are in bold; + : co-first authors; # : corresponding authors • Xinyang Xiong+, Siyuan Jiang+ and Pengcheng Zeng#. NeuralFLoC: Neural Flow-Based Joint Registration and Clustering of Functional Data. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. • Siyuan Jiang+, Yihan Hu+, Wenjie Li and Pengcheng Zeng#. DeepFRC: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for Functional Registration and Classification. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026. • Tao Ding and Pengcheng Zeng#. GALA: A Unified Landmark-Free Framework for Coarse-to-Fine Spatial Alignment Across Resolutions and Modalities in Spatial Transcriptomics. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 27(2):bbag181, 2026. • Hongyao Li+, Yunrui Liu+ and Pengcheng Zeng#. Guided Co-clustering Transfer Across Unpaired and Paired Single-cell Multi-omics Data. Bioinformatics; 41(12):btaf639, 2025. • Pengcheng Zeng and Zhixiang Lin#. scAWMV: an adaptively weighted multi-view learning framework for the integrative analysis of parallel scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data. Bioinformatics; 39(1):btac739, 2023. • Pengcheng Zeng, Jiaxuan Wangwu and Zhixiang Lin#. Coupled co-clustering-based unsupervised transfer learning for the integrative analysis of single-cell genomic data. Briefings in Bioinformatics; 22(4):bbaa34, 2021. • Pengcheng Zeng, Jian Qing Shi# and Won-Seok Kim. Simultaneous registration and clustering for multi-dimensional functional data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics; 4(28):943-953, 2019.
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