- 9/13/2025: Our tutorial “AI for Precision Medicine: Integrative Analysis of Histopathology Images and Spatial Omics” has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), November 14th, 2025.
- 9/13/2025: Our tutorial “Computational Pathology Foundation Models: Datasets, Adaptation Strategies, and Evaluations” has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), November 14th, 2025.
- 9/05/2025: Our tutorial “Computational Pathology Foundation Models: Datasets, Adaptation Strategies, and Evaluations” has been accepted for presentation at the Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), January 21st, 2026.
- 8/18/2025: Our tutorial “Computational Pathology Foundation Models: Datasets, Adaptation Strategies, and Evaluations” was presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 18th, 2025.
- 6/10/2025: Our tutorial “Computational Pathology Foundation Models: Datasets, Adaptation Strategies, and Evaluations” was presented at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), June 10th, 2025.
- 4/29/2025: Our paper “FADE: Towards Fairness-aware Data Generation for Domain Generalization via Classifier-Guided Score-based Diffusion Models” was accepted by IJCAI 2025.
- 4/23/2025: Our paper “Long-term mortality outcomes among immunotherapy recipients treated with dupilumab for the management of cutaneous immune-related adverse events” was accepted by the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.
- 2/21/2025: Our study “Survival implications of systemic immunosuppression timing, dosage, and duration in immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A retrospective multicohort study” was accepted for Oral Presentation at 2025 SID Annual Meeting.
- 10/30/2024: Our work “Multi-View Unsupervised Column Subset Selection via Combinatorial Search” was accepted by AAAI 2025 Student Abstract Program.
- 5/13/2024: Our paper “Multi-organ toxicities from immune checkpoint blockade and their downstream implications: a retrospective multi-cohort study” was accepted by The Lancet Oncology.
- 4/2/2024: Our paper “SpatialCells: automated profiling of tumor microenvironments with spatially resolved multiplexed single-cell data” was accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics.
- 2/23/2024: Our study “Individualized melanoma risk prediction using machine learning with electronic health records” was accepted for Oral Presentation at 2024 SID Annual Meeting.
- 2/9/2024: Dr. Wan received NIH/NCI K99 Career Development Award.
Research Experience
At CWan Lab (pronounced “Wan Lab”), we advance the foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning to address key challenges in biomedicine, with a focus on spatially resolved biological data. Our work bridges algorithmic innovation and real-world application, developing biologically grounded and clinically impactful models that uncover disease mechanisms and drive personalized medicine.
Background
Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; NIH/NCI K99 Awardee. Research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Spatial Biology in Precision Medicine (AI4PM).
Miscellany
We are actively recruiting postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and data scientists with expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and spatial biology, particularly as applied to cancer and precision medicine.