About

Now, I am a second-year PhD candidate in Washington University School of Medicine(WUSM). My research interests span machine learning and precision medicine.

In 2021, my scholarly journey culminated in the successful procurement of a Master of Science in Computer Science from Washington University. During my master's study, I joined Dr. Fuhai Li's Lab as a research assistant in Institute for Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to use computational and deep learning models, especially graph neural networks, to analyse cells signaling interactions and predict drug combinations effect.

And I finished my Bachelor degree in Information Systems in 2019 as "Boya" Plan Student and won the honor of "Outstanding Graduate" from Central China Normal University(CCNU), where I mainly carried out researches on text mining.

In 2018, I obtained the fellowship from Mitacs to become a VIRS in UBC with helpful supervision of Dr. Ivan Beschastnikh to carry on research about system machine learning.

1. Mining signaling flow to interpret mechanisms of synergy of drug combinations using graph neural network
   Heming Zhang, Yixin Chen, Philip Payne, Fuhai Li
   March 2021, bioRxiv preprint
   PDF Code

2. Predicting anti-cancer drug response with deep learning constrained by signaling pathways
   Heming Zhang, Yixin Chen, Fuhai Li
   March 2021, Accepted to Frontier in Bioinformatics
   PDF Code

3. Investigate the relevance of major signaling pathways in cancer survival using a biologically meaningful deep learning model
   Jiarui Feng, Heming Zhang, Fuhai Li
   October 2020, Accepted to BMC Bioinformatics
   PDF Code

4. Predicting Tumor Cell Response to Synergistic Drug Combinations Using a Novel Simplified Deep Learning Model
   Heming Zhang, Jiarui Feng, Amanda Zeng, Philip Payne, Fuhai Li
   July 2020, Accepcted to AMIA 2020 Annual Symposium as Oral Presentaion
   PDF Code

• Badminton and Table Tenis
• Travelling (Have been to US; Canada; Japan)
• Pop Music(Taylor Swift's Fan)

• hemingzhang@wustl.edu
• Washington University School of Medicine