Highlights

  • >50 Publications (including one book)

  • Google Scholar Citations: >1500

  • Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics

  • Editorial Board Member for Briefings in Functional Genomics (IF: 4.840), Heliyon (IF: 4), BMC Bioinformatics (IF: 3.328), Discover Oncology (IF: 2.8), International Journal of Microbiology (IF: 3.4), PeerJ Computer Science (IF: 2.411), BioMed Research International (IF: 3.411), and Computational and Mathematical Methods (IF: 2.809)

  • Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Immunology (IF: 8.786), Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (IF: 6.684), Frontiers in Pharmacology (IF: 5.988), Frontiers in Oncology (IF: 5.738), Biology (IF: 5.079), Frontiers in Genetics (IF: 4.599), Genes (IF: 4.141), and Frontiers in Psychology (IF: 3.8)

  • TPC Member for IEEE ICTAI (2016-present) and >20 other machine learning international conferences

  • Reviewer for >50 journals including Nature Methods (IF: 36.1), Nature Communications (IF: 16.6), Nature Computational Science (IF: 11.3), Nucleic Acids Research (IF: 14.9), Genome Medicine (IF: 12.3), Cancer Research (IF: 11.2), Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF: 11.6), and IEEE TNNLS (IF: 10.4)

  • Top Reviewers (top 1%) in Cross-Field (2019), and Biology and Biochemistry (2019) awarded by Clarivate

  • Outstanding Young Alumni Awardee (2022)

  • Developed 15 highly accessed bioinformatics tools

  • IEEE Senior Member

Brief Biography

Dr. Shibiao Wan (traditional Chinese: 萬時彪，simplified Chinese: 万时彪) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor by courtesy in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC. With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in prestigious journals like Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals like Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, Discover Oncology, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals like Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Frontiers in Oncology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes. He is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >50 prestigious journals including Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Medicine, Cancer Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and IEEE TNNLS. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the global peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.

Before joining UNMC, Dr. Wan was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in US. In St. Jude, Dr. Wan was mainly responsible for developing machine learning based methods for single cell analysis, multi-omics analysis, all kinds of transcriptomics analysis and proteomics analysis. Meanwhile, Dr. Wan established extensive collaborations with principal investigators and scientists in various biomedical backgrounds including hematology, cancer biology, genomics, developmental neurobiology, immunology, pathology, pharmaceutical sciences, etc, by providing bioinformatics analysis for treating childhood cancers and other catastrophic pediatric diseases. Before joining St. Jude, Dr. Wan was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Genetics and Institute of Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) during 2017-2019. In UPenn, Dr. Wan was mainly working in bioinformatics, computational biology and machine learning, especially in single-cell analysis and algorithm development, genomics/epigenomics, genetics/epigenetics, gene regulation and proteomics. Before joining UPenn, Dr. Wan was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University during 2016-2017. In Princeton, he was mainly working in machine learning, bioinformatics, genomic privacy and compressive privacy. Dr. Wan got his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014 and B.Eng. from Wuhan University in 2010. Before joining Princeton University, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR from 2014 to 2016. Dr. Wan was a visiting scholar to The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Virginia Tech in 2013.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Professor (courtesy), Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2024-present.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2022-present.
  • Assistant Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2022-present.
  • Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Center for Applied Bioinformatics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 2019-2022.
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Genetics and Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism (IDOM), University of Pennsylvania, 2017 - 2019. Supervisor: Dr. Kyoung Jae Won and Prof. Daniel Kelly.
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2016 - 2017. Supervisor: Prof. Sun-Yuan Kung.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, 2014 - 2016. Supervisor: Dr. Man-Wai Mak.
  • Research Associate, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, 2014. Supervisor: Dr. Man-Wai Mak.
  • Visiting scholar, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, MD, USA and CBIL lab of Virginia Tech, VA, USA , 2013. Supervisor: Prof. Yue Wang.

AWARDS & HONORS

  • New Investigator Award, awarded by UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA, 2024;
  • FIRST Award of Nebraska EPSCoR Program, Lincoln, NE, USA, 2023;
  • IEEE Senior Member, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2022;
  • EIE Outstanding Young Alumni Award, awarded by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK SAR, China, 2022;
  • Top reviewers in Cross-Field (top 1%), awarded by Clarivate, 2019;
  • Top reviewers in Biology and Biochemistry (top 1%), awarded by Clarivate, 2019;
  • Brandeis Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2016-2018;
  • “Best Poster Award” in the 6-th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum 2011, Hong Kong SAR, Aug., 2011.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Member, American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
  • Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
  • Member, Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center (FPBCC) at UNMC
  • Member, Children Health Research Institute (CHRI) at UNMC
  • Member, Alcohol Center of Research: Nebraska (ACORN) at UNMC
  • Member, Nebraska Center for Women’s Health Research (NCWHR) at UNMC