Portrait de Yue Li

Yue Li

Membre académique associé
Professeur adjoint, McGill University, École d'informatique
Sujets de recherche
Biologie computationnelle

Biographie

J'ai obtenu un doctorat en informatique et biologie computationnelle de l'Université de Toronto en 2014. Avant de me joindre à l’Université McGill, j'ai été associé postdoctoral au Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2015-2018).

Mes recherches portent sur le développement de modèles d'apprentissage probabilistes interprétables et de modèles d'apprentissage profond pour modéliser les données génétiques et épigénétiques, les dossiers de santé électroniques et les données génomiques unicellulaires.

En intégrant systématiquement des données multimodales et longitudinales, je cherche à obtenir des applications qui auront des effets tangibles en médecine computationnelle, y compris la construction de systèmes de recommandation clinique intelligents, la prévision des trajectoires de santé des patients, les prédictions personnalisées de risques polygéniques, la caractérisation des mutations génétiques fonctionnelles multitraits, et la dissection des éléments réglementaires spécifiques au type de cellule qui sont à la base des traits complexes et des maladies chez l'homme. Mon programme de recherche couvre trois domaines principaux impliquant l'apprentissage automatique appliqué à la génomique computationnelle et à la santé.

Étudiants actuels

Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Baccalauréat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
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Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
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Doctorat - McGill
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Doctorat - McGill

Publications

GFETM: Genome Foundation-based Embedded Topic Model for scATAC-seq Modeling
Yimin Fan
Adrien Osakwe
Yu Li
Supervised latent factor modeling isolates cell-type-specific transcriptomic modules that underlie Alzheimer’s disease progression
Liam Hodgson
Yasser Iturria-Medina
Jo Anne Stratton
Smita Krishnaswamy
David A. Bennett
Protocol to perform integrative analysis of high-dimensional single-cell multimodal data using an interpretable deep learning technique
Manqi Zhou
Hao Zhang
Zilong Bai
Dylan Mann-Krzisnik
Fei Wang
Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores using phylogenetic regularization
Elliot Layne
Shadi Zabad
Machine Learning Informed Diagnosis for Congenital Heart Disease in Large Claims Data Source
Ariane Marelli
Chao Li
Aihua Liu
Hanh Nguyen
Harry Moroz
James M. Brophy
Liming Guo
MiRGraph: A transformer-based feature learning approach to identify microRNA-target interactions by integrating heterogeneous graph network and sequence information
Pei Liu
Ying Liu
Jiawei Luo
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression by targeting specific mRNAs. They can function as both tumor sup… (voir plus)pressors and oncogenes depending on the specific miRNA and its target genes. Detecting miRNA-target interactions (MTIs) is critical for unraveling the complex mechanisms of gene regulation and identifying therapeutic targets and diagnostic markers. There is currently a lack of MTIs prediction method that simultaneously performs feature learning on heterogeneous graph network and sequence information. To improve the prediction performance of MTIs, we present a novel transformer-based multi-view feature learning method, named MiRGraph. It consists of two main modules for learning the sequence and heterogeneous graph network, respectively. For learning the sequence-based feaature embedding, we utilize the mature miRNA sequence and the complete 3’UTR sequence of the target mRNAs to encode sequence features. Specifically, a transformer-based CNN (TransCNN) module is designed for miRNAs and genes respectively to extract their personalized sequence features. For learning the network-based feature embedding, we utilize a heterogeneous graph transformer (HGT) module to extract the relational and structural information in a heterogeneous graph consisting of miRNA-miRNA, gene-gene and miRNA-target interactions. We learn the TransCNN and HGT modules end-to-end by utilizing a feedforward network, which takes the combined embedded features of the miRNA-gene pair to predict MTIs. Comparisons with other existing MTIs prediction methods illustrates the superiority of MiRGraph under standard criteria. In a case study on breast cancer, we identified plausible target genes of an oncomir hsa-MiR-122-5p and plausible miRNAs that regulate the oncogene BRCA1.
Bidirectional Generative Pre-training for Improving Time Series Representation Learning
Ziyang Song
Qincheng Lu
He Zhu
Extrapolatable Transformer Pre-training for Ultra Long Time-Series Forecasting
Ziyang Song
Qincheng Lu
Hao Xu
He Zhu
Differential Chromatin Architecture and Risk Variants in Deep Layer Excitatory Neurons and Grey Matter Microglia Contribute to Major Depressive Disorder
Anjali Chawla
Doruk Cakmakci
Wenmin Zhang
Malosree Maitra
Reza Rahimian
Haruka Mitsuhashi
MA Davoli
Jenny Yang
Gary Gang Chen
Ryan Denniston
Deborah Mash
Naguib Mechawar
Matthew Suderman
Corina Nagy
Gustavo Turecki
GTM-decon: guided-topic modeling of single-cell transcriptomes enables sub-cell-type and disease-subtype deconvolution of bulk transcriptomes
Lakshmipuram Seshadri Swapna
Michael Huang
Guided-topic modelling of single-cell transcriptomes enables sub-cell-type and disease-subtype deconvolution of bulk transcriptomes
Lakshmipuram Seshadri Swapna
Michael Huang
Cell-type composition is an important indicator of health. We present Guided Topic Model for deconvolution (GTM-decon) to automatically infe… (voir plus)r cell-type-specific gene topic distributions from single-cell RNA-seq data for deconvolving bulk transcriptomes. GTM-decon performs competitively on deconvolving simulated and real bulk data compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, as demonstrated in deconvolving disease transcriptomes, GTM-decon can infer multiple cell-type-specific gene topic distributions per cell type, which captures sub-cell-type variations. GTM-decon can also use phenotype labels from single-cell or bulk data as a guide to infer phenotype-specific gene distributions. In a nested-guided design, GTM-decon identified cell-type-specific differentially expressed genes from bulk breast cancer transcriptomes.
Biomedical discovery through the integrative biomedical knowledge hub (iBKH).
Chang Su
Yu Hou
Manqi Zhou
Suraj Rajendran
Jacqueline R.M. A. Maasch
Zehra Abedi
Haotan Zhang
Zilong Bai
Anthony Cuturrufo
Winston Guo
Fayzan F. Chaudhry
Gregory Ghahramani
Feixiong Cheng
Rui Zhang
Steven T. DeKosky
Jiang Bian
Fei Wang