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May 15, 2026: Successfully defended my PhD thesis.

Apr 29, 2026: Invited to share experiences from the National Scholarship application process with graduate students.

Apr 28, 2026: Completed interviews for a postdoctoral fellowship position in the United States and accepted the offer on May 13, 2026.
Feb 17, 2026: My article, A machine learning model for predicting adverse prognostic events in patients with neurosyphilis: results from the DEFEAT-NS study, was accepted for publication in iScience.
Nov 07, 2025: Our article, Heterogeneity in Prevalence, Incidence, and Clearance of Anal Human Papillomavirus Among HIV-Negative and HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: An Observational Cohort Study, for which I served as second co-first author, was accepted for publication in Vaccines.
Sep 21, 2025: Founded Biostat Weekly, a weekly newsletter covering new research, tools, and resources in biostatistics.
Sep 18, 2025: Awarded the Doctoral National Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, China.

Sep 18, 2025: Awarded the First Prize Scholarship by Sun Yat-sen University.
Sep 11, 2025: Invited to share graduate study experiences with incoming students.

Sep 02, 2025: Named an Outstanding Teaching Assistant by Sun Yat-sen University.

Aug 12, 2025: Completed the Health Medical Big Data and Intelligent Statistics international summer program, certified by Sun Yat-sen University.

Jul 30, 2025: Released my first Python package omixvizpy on PyPI.
Jul 18, 2025: Released my R package omixVizR on CRAN and R-universe.
Jul 08, 2025: My article, Curating a knowledge base for patients with neurosyphilis: a study protocol of a DEep learning Framework for pErsonalized prediction of Adverse prognosTic events in NeuroSyphilis (DEFEAT-NS), was accepted for publication in BMJ Open.
Feb 06, 2025: My article, Characteristics of Human Papillomavirus Prevalence and Infection Patterns Among Women Aged 35-65 in Fujian Province, China: A Nine-Year Retrospective Observational Study, was accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Virology.
Jan 30, 2025: My article, Identifying Data-Driven Clinical Subgroups for Cervical Cancer Prevention With Machine Learning: Population-Based, External, and Diagnostic Validation Study, was accepted for publication in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.
Jan 14, 2025: Our article, Development, Validation, and Clinical Application of a Machine Learning Model for Risk Stratification and Management in Cervical Cancer Screening Based on Full-Genotyping hrHPV Test (SMART-HPV): A Modelling Study, for which I served as second co-first author, was accepted for publication in The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific.
Nov 11, 2024: Presented three posters at The IPVC 2024 Conference in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Nov 08, 2024: Awarded the Doctoral National Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, China.

Sep 23, 2024: Awarded the Presidential Scholarship by Sun Yat-sen University.
Sep 10, 2024: Released my first R package, lulab.utils, on CRAN and R-universe.
May 11, 2024: Migrated the personal website from R Markdown to Quarto.