Statistics · Biology · Curiosity

Kun Qian

Bioinformatics
AI for Science

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at Peking University. I develop statistical and machine learning methods to make sense of complex biological data.

Explore my research Things I build

Research, ideas, and things I build

A little company along the way

Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics
Peking University · Beijing, China

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01 / Research

Finding structure in biology

Biological questions.
Computational perspectives.

Bioinformatics

Making sense of single-cell and spatial omics data, from cellular states to the organization of tissues.

Single cells · Spatial omics

AI for Science

Developing representation learning and multimodal methods that connect biological data with interpretable insights.

Representation · Multimodal learning

Statistical learning

Building models for integration, dimensionality reduction, and discovery in complex, high-dimensional data.

Structure · Variation · Discovery

Currently exploring My current interests also include genomics, epigenomics, and computational approaches to sequence design.

02 / Selected work

Selected publications

All publications

Nature Cell Biology 2026

SpaHDmap

Integrating spatial transcriptomics and histology images for interpretable, high-resolution embeddings.

Read paper ↗Code ↗

Genome Biology 2022

scINSIGHT

Learning shared and condition-specific gene expression patterns across biologically heterogeneous single-cell samples.

Read paper ↗Code ↗

Tools for the research community

Explore SpaHDmap, scINSIGHT, scAce, and scBiG.

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03 / Fun projects

Made out of curiosity

Sometimes an idea becomes
something you can play with.

BioScape’s interactive animal cell with selectable structures and a cutaway view

Explore in your browser

Biology, in three dimensions

BioScape

Take a closer look inside cells. Explore biological structures, step into organelles, and follow processes such as transcription and photosynthesis.

Interactive 3DBiology education

Explore BioScape ↗GitHub ↗

PKU-3D campus overview showing Weiming Lake, Boya Pagoda, and surrounding buildings

Take a walk around Yanyuan

A campus to wander through

PKU-3D

Explore an unofficial 3D model of Peking University’s Yanyuan campus. Find buildings, plan a route, and see the campus in different light and weather.

Interactive campus3D visualization

Explore the campus ↗GitHub ↗

04 / Education

Mathematics
Statistics
Living systems

My research brings a background in mathematics and statistics to questions in biology.

View my CV ↗

2023 — Present
Ph.D. candidate in Statistics
Peking University
2020 — 2023
M.S. in Mathematics
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
2016 — 2020
B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

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