Ziqing Pan

PhD Candidate · Cornell University · Computational Biology

I am a PhD candidate working on computational biology. My work sits at the intersection of human statistical genetics, population genetics, machine learning and genomics, with a focus on developing efficient algorithms for analyzing large-scale biological data.

I am advised by Prof. April Wei and affiliated with the department of Computational Biology at Cornell University. Previously, I studied at Sun Yat-sen University, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia University.

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Publications

2026

General, orders-of-magnitude faster whole-genome analysis with genotype representation graphs

Drew DeHaas, Chris Adonizio, Ziqing Pan, Xinzhu Wei

bioRxiv preprint

preprint code
2025

Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs

Drew DeHaas+, Ziqing Pan+, April Wei

Nature Computational Science, +: equal contribution

paper code
2020

Human A-to-I RNA editing SNP loci are enriched in GWAS signals for autoimmune diseases and under balancing selection

Hui Zhang, Qiang Fu, Xinrui Shi, Ziqing Pan, Wenbing Yang, Zichao Huang, Tian Tang, Xionglei He, Rui Zhang

Genome Biology

paper
2020

Population genomics of East Asian ethnic groups

Ziqing Pan, Shuhua Xu

Hereditas

paper

Projects

GRG

GRG is a graph-based encoding that enables fast and efficient whole-genome analysis in large-scale biobanks, addressing the challenges of scalability and performance in WGS data processing.

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Grapp

Grapp is a GRG-based library for tackling problems in statistical and population genetics.

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Alvari

Alvari enables ridge regression for whole-genome variants, providing accurate polygenic score prediction and causal inference simultaneously.

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plotkit

plotkit is a versatile plotting library designed for creating publication-quality graphics in python.

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CV

Education

2022 – Present

Ph.D. in Computational Biology Cornell University · Advisor: Prof. April Wei

2016 – 2020

B.S. in Biotechnology Sun Yat-sen University

Experience

2020 – 2021

Research Assistant Xu Lab, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai

Awards & Honors

2026

Best Poster Award GLAM-EvoGen 2026

2025

CVG ScholarCVG Cornell University