I am currently a data analyst at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, advised by Gregory D. Kirk and Jing Sun. I received my M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, advised by Hongkai Ji and Weiqiang Zhou. Prior to that, I obtained my B.S. degree in Computer Science from Nanjing Normal University, advised by Yanhui Gu.

My research interests lie in AI for Science, particularly in biology and medicine. Currently, I mainly focus on deep learning for large-scale genomic data representation. I also develop computational models to tackle biomedical challenges and drive progress in human healthcare. In the past, I have collaborated with Richen Liu at NJNU, Weihua Pan at CAAS, Robert Stevens, Kai Ding, Junyu Chen at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes.

πŸ”₯ News

I am applying for Fall 2025 PhD programs. If there are opportunities in your research group, please feel free to reach out!

Email: xchen279 [at] jhu [dot] com | Phone: (667) 434-8060

πŸ“š Publications

AAAI 2025
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scMBERT: a Pre-trained Deep Learning Model based on Single-Cell Multiomic Data Representation and Prediction
Xiaojian Chen, Kuai Yu, Minzhi Jiang, Cihan Xiao, Ziqi Fu, Weiqiang Zhou.

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SPIE Medical Imaging 2025
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Correlation Ratio for Unsupervised Learning of Multi-modal Deformable Registration
Xiaojian Chen, Yihao Liu, Shuwen Wei, Aaron Carass, Yong Du, Junyu Chen.

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Plant Physiology
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GFAP: Ultra-fast and Accurate Gene Functional Annotation Software for Plants
Dong Xu, Yingxue Yang, Desheng Gong, Xiaojian Chen, Kangming Jin, Heling Jiang, Wenjuan Yu, Jihong Li, Jin Zhang, Weihua Pan.

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πŸ“• Journals

πŸ“˜ Conferences

πŸ“” Patents

πŸ† Honors and Awards

  • 2024.02 AAAI-24 Student Scholarship and Volunteer Award
  • 2022.10 National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%)
  • 2021.04 Best Poster Award at PacificVIS 2021

πŸ“– Educations

  • 2023.08 - 2024.08, Master, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, Undergraduate, Nanjing Normal Univeristy, China.

πŸ“ Teaching Assistant

  • Fall, 2023, EN.580.487 Computational Medicine: Cardiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (Instructor: Eileen B. Haase)
  • Fall, 2022, C Programming Language Course, Nanjing Normal University (Instructor: Yanhui Gu)
  • Fall, 2022, Database Principle and Application Course, Nanjing Normal University (Instructor: Yanhui Gu)

πŸ’» Experience

Last updated: 2024-12-20