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Lujia Chen

Assistant Professor
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Biography

Titles:
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Publications:

Lu S, Fan X, Chen L, Lu X. A novel method of using Deep Belief Networks and genetic perturbation data to search for yeast signaling pathways. Plos One. September 2018; 13(9). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203871.

Chen L, Lu X. Making deep learning models transparent. J of Med Artif Intell 2018; 1:5.

Lu S, Cai C, Yan G, Zhou Z, Wan Y, Chen V, Chen L, Cooper GF, Obeid LM, Hannun YA, Lee AV, Lu X. Signal-Oriented Pathway Analyses Reveal a Signaling Complex as a Synthetic Lethal Target for p53 Mutations. Cancer Res. 206 Dec 1:76(23):6785-6794. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-1740. Epub 2016 Oct 10. PMID: 27758891. PMCID: PMC5165695.

Montefusco DJ, Chen L, Matmati N, Lu S, Newcomb B, Cooper GF, Hannun YA, Lu X. Distinct signaling roles of ceramide species in yeast revealed through systematic perturbation and systems biology analyses. Sci Signal. 2013 Oct 29;6(299): rs14. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2004515. PMID: 24170935PMC3974757.


Education

BS  (2008, Biological Technology) University of Science & Technology, Beijing, China

MS (2012, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

PhD (2016, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA


Honors

2005   The Renmin Scholarship (People’s Scholarship)  A scholarship given to excellent student according to academic performance

2005   The Outstanding Freshman Award.  This is an award to the students with highest college entrance scores in students from a region (in my case, Shanghai)

2006   Renmin Scholarship

2007   Renmin Scholarship

2007   The Honor of Excellent Student Leader

2008   Renmin Scholarship