Introduction

Xiaoru (Ruby) Dong earned her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Florida, where she worked under the guidance of Dr. Rhonda Bacher. She also holds a B.S. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her research focuses on the intersection of biology and statistics. She develops statistical and computational tools for genomics and biomedical research, specializing in analyzing complex datasets, particularly human single-cell data from next-generation sequencing technologies. Her goal is to drive new biological discoveries and deepen our understanding of genomic processes through innovative, data-driven approaches.

Latest News

• 2024-05-06: Our method, Escort, was published in Briefings in Bioinformatics, serving as a tool for trajectory analysis and providing insights into dynamic biological processes at single-cell resolution.
• 2024-05-02: Xiaoru obtained her PhD degree and graduated from the University of Florida!
• 2024-05-01: Xiaoru presented a poster at STATGEN 2024, the ASA SSGG conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
• 2024-03-11: Xiaoru gave a contributed talk at ENAR 2024!
• 2023-07-23: Xiaoru's co-first author paper with Dr. Brusko's Lab was published, demonstrating advanced immune aging in T1D and highlighting disease-associated phenotypes for biomarker monitoring and therapeutic interventions.