Haiyan Huang, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics

Interdepartmental Group in Biostatistics

Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology.

University of California, Berkeley

CA, 94720, USA

 

Tel: (510)642-6433

Fax: (510)642-7892

Email: hhuang

AT stat DOT Berkeley DOT edu

 

 

Teaching

 

Fall 2003:

STAT 152: Survey Sampling

Spring 2004:

STAT C141: Statistics for Bioinformatics

Department Colloquium

Fall 2004:

STAT 152: Survey Sampling

Department Colloquium

Spring 2005:

STAT C141: Statistics for Bioinformatics

Neyman Seminar

Fall 2005:

STAT 152: Survey Sampling

Spring 2006:

STAT 200B: Introduction to Probability and Statistics at an Advanced Level

STAT C141: Statistics for Bioinformatics

Fall 2006:

STAT 152: Survey Sampling

Spring 2007:

STAT 200B: Introduction to Probability and Statistics at an Advanced Level

STAT C141: Statistics for Bioinformatics

Fall 2007:

On Sabbatical

Spring 2008:

STAT C141: Statistics for Bioinformatics

Department Tuesday Colloquium

 

 

 

Research interests

Development and application of mathematical/statistical methods for problems associated with various biological systems and data

1.     Biological sequence analysis

2.     Identification of transcription factor binding sites

3.     Microarray/SAGE data analysis

4.     Sequence weighting Methods

5.     Interaction/regulatory networks

6.     Comparative Genomics

 

People

 

Graduate Students:

l       Na Xu (PhD candidate, Statistics, co-advised by Professor Peter Bickel)

Current Project: Affymetrix RNA tiling array data analysis

l       Peter Dimitrov (PhD candidate, Biostatistics Program)

Current Project: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data (working with Dr. Jane Fridlyand, UCSF)

l       Jing Zhou (visiting student, Tongji University, PR China)

l       Kyungpil Kim (visiting student, POSTECH University, Korea)

Research Topic: Clustering and Classification Methods with Application to Biological Data

 

Post-doc

l       Juli Atherton (joint with Professor Peter Bickel)

 

Former Graduate Students:

l       Siew-leng Melinda Teng, PhD, 2007 Summer

Thesis Title: Statistical methods in integrative analysis of gene expression data with applications to biological pathways

Current Position: Statistician, Genentech, Inc.

 

 

Major Collaborators:

l       Peter Bickel, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley

l       Bin Yu, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley

 

l       Lewis Feldman, Plant Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley

l       Lydia Sohn, Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

l       Yishi Jin, Molecular Biology, UC Santa Cruz

l       Xianghong Zhou, Department of Computational and Molecular Biology, USC

 

Publications

 

1.    Carbonaro A, Huang H, Godley LA and Sohn LL 

Multiparametric Approach to Cell-Based Assays Using Protein-Functionalized Pores,” submitted

 

2.    Brown JB, Kechris KJ, Poulin F, Xu N, Bickel PJ, Huang H

“Classification of Transcriptional Function in Human Conserved Non-Coding Elements,” submitted

 

3.    Jiang K, Zhu T, Huang H, Feldman L

“Maize Root Stem Cell Niche: A Partnership Between Two Transcriptionally Distinct Stem Cell Populations,” submitted

 

4.    Wang F, Jiang T, Pan B, Sun Z, Teng S, Zhu Z, Gong G, Zang Y, Zhang H, Yue W, Hong N, Huang H, Blumberg H, Zhang, D

Neuregulin 1 Genetic Variation and anterior cingulum integrity in schizophrenia and in health,” Submitted

 

5.    Teng S, Zhou XJ, Huang H

“A statistical framework to infer functional gene associations across multiple biologically related microarray experiments,” JASA, accepted.

 

6.    Huang H, Cai L, Wong WH

Clustering Analysis of SAGE transcription profiles using a Poisson Approach, chapter 14 of “Methods in Molecular Biology”, Humana Press Inc.

 

7.    Huang Y, Li H, Hu H, Yan X, Waterman MS, Huang H, Zhou XJ (2007)

“Systematic Discovery of Functional Modules and Context-Specific Functional Annotation of Human Genome” Bioinformatics (ISMB 2007), 23(13):i222-i229.

 

8.    ENCODE Consortium (2007).

“Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project” Nature. 447, 799-816.

 

9.    Kim K, Jiang K, Zhang S, Cai L, Lee IB, Feldman LJ, Huang H (2007)

“Measuring Similarities between Gene Expression Profiles through New Data Transformations” BMC Bioinformatics, 2007, 8:29 (27Jan2007) [link]

 

10.Huang H, Kim K (2006)

“Unsupervised clustering analysis of gene expression”, Chance, vol. 19, No.3 / summer 2006.

 

11.Jiang K, Zhang S, Lee S, Tsai G, Kim K, Huang H, Zhu T, Feldman LJ (2006)

“Transcription Profile Analyses Identify Genes and Pathways Central to Root Cap Functions in Maize”. Plant Molecular Biology, 2006 60(3):343-63.

 

12.Zhou XJ, Kao MJ, Huang H, Wong A, Nunez-Iglesias J, Primig M, Aparicio OM, Finch CE, Morgan TE, Wong WH (2005)

“Integrating Cross-Platform Microarray Data by Second-order Analysis: Functional Annotation and Network Reconstruction Nature Biotechnology. 2005 Feb;23(2):238-43.

 

13.Zhao X, Huang H, Speed TP (2005)

“Finding Short DNA Motifs Using Permuted Markov Models” Journal of Computational Biology (RECOMB2005), Jul 2005, Vol. 12, No. 6: 894-906

 

14.Li Cai*, Haiyan Huang*, Seth Blackshaw, Jun S. Liu, Connie L Cepko, Wing H Wong (2004)

“Clustering analysis of SAGE data using a Poisson approach” Genome Biology, 2004;5(7):R51.

*Joint first authors

 

15.Allinen1 M, Beroukhim R, Cai L, Brennan C, Domenici JL, Huang H, Porter D, Hu M, Chin L, Richardson A, Schnitt S, Sellers W, Polyak K (2004)

“Molecular characterization of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer” Cancer Cell, 2004 Jul;6(1):17-32.

 

16.Haiyan Huang, Ming-Chih J. Kao, Xianghong Zhou, Jun S. Liu, Wing H. Wong (2004)

Determination of local statistical significance of patterns in Markov sequences with application to promoter element identification” Journal of Computational Biology, 2004 Vol 11, No 1.

 

17.Blackshaw S, Harpavat S, Trimarchi J, Cai L, Huang H, Kuo WP, Weber G, Lee K, Fraioli RE, Cho SH, Yung R, Asch E, Ohno-Machado L, Wong WH, Cepko CL. (2004)

“Genomic Analysis of Mouse Retinal Development” PLoS Biol. 2004 Jun 29;2(9):E247 [full text]

 

18.Ross A. Lippert, Haiyan Huang, and Michael S. Waterman (2002)

Distributional regimes for the number of k-word matches between two random sequences” PNAS 2002 99: 13980-13989

 

19.Haiyan Huang (2002)

Error Bounds on Multivariate Normal Approximations for Word Count Statistics” Advances in Applied Probability, 2002 34.3. pp559-587

 

 

 

Books Edited

 

20.“Research in Computational Molecular Biology” (11th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2007), edited by Terry Speed and Haiyan Huang, Published by Springer 

 

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