Dr. Zhicheng Ji is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biostatistics and M.S.E. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2020. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and statistical modeling for single-cell genomics, spatial genomics, and biomedical imaging.
Assessing GPT-4 for cell type annotation in single-cell RNA-seq analysis. 2024. Nature Methods
Comparing large language models and human programmers for generating programming code. 2025. Advanced Science
Vispro improves imaging analysis for Visium spatial transcriptomics. 2025. Genome Biology
GeneSegNet: a deep learning framework for cell segmentation by integrating gene expression and imaging. 2023. Genome Biology
Single-cell and spatial detection of senescent cells using DeepScence. 2025. Cell Genomics (In press)
BIOSTAT 824 – Case Studies in Biomedical Data Science (2025). Course Link