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Elvis Han Cui

Conceptual research landscape connecting molecular observations, photon-counting traces, cells, organisms and populations.

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Qian Lab · Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
School of Science, Westlake University

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I am a postdoctoral researcher in Qian Lab, led by Professor Hong Qian (钱紘), at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Science, Westlake University. I received my Ph.D. in Biostatistics from UCLA, advised by Weng Kee Wong and Gang Li.

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ONE TRAJECTORY, THREE THREADS

What I Study

Research & publications

I study how statistical inference and stochastic models can help us understand living systems — and how better experiments can make that understanding possible.

01 RESEARCH THEME

Stochastic Dynamics & Quantitative Biology

What can fluctuations reveal about living systems?

Connecting molecular observations to stochastic models, with a current focus on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and photon-counting data.

FCS · Stochastic processes · Semi-Markov models

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02 RESEARCH THEME

Statistical Methodology

How can we learn more from the measurements we can afford?

Designing informative experiments and developing statistical methods for survival, multistate and biomedical data.

Optimal design · Survival · Multistate models

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03 RESEARCH THEME

Computational Biology & AI

How can computational models make biological variation interpretable?

Modeling single-cell trends and biomedical measurements, alongside work on representation learning and scientific optimization.

scGTM · Single-cell data · Machine learning

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Selected Publications

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  1. First page of the scGTM article in Bioinformatics
    Article first page
    Bioinformatics

    Single-cell generalized trend model (scGTM): a flexible and interpretable model of gene expression trend along cell pseudotime

    Elvis Han Cui, Dongyuan Song, Weng Kee Wong, Jingyi Jessica Li

    Bioinformatics, 38(16), 3927–3934 · 2022

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    Overview

    A generalized trend model for single-cell data.

  2. Original cover of The Statistical Compass from the public arXiv manuscript
    arXiv manuscript cover · CC BY 4.0
    Working manuscript

    The Statistical Compass

    Eliuvish Han Cui

    Textbook / monograph working manuscript · arXiv:2606.11282 · 2026

    Working manuscript, not a publisher-issued book.

    Arxiv
    Overview

    A textbook-length exploration of probability, stochastic processes and statistical inference, available as an arXiv working manuscript.

  3. First page of Investigating the value of glucodensity analysis in Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
    Article first page · CC BY
    Frontiers

    Investigating the value of glucodensity analysis of continuous glucose monitoring data in type 1 diabetes: an exploratory analysis

    Elvis Han Cui, Allison B. Goldfine, Michelle Quinlan, David A. James, Oleksandr Sverdlov

    Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare, 4, 1244613 · 2023

    Paper
    Overview

    A distributional perspective on continuous glucose-monitoring data in type 1 diabetes.

Writing

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