Category: News
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Master thesis projects
We are looking for motivated Master’s students to join us for the following master thesis projects: Contact: Please contact Prof. Shirley Siu by email or pay a visit to the Academic Building E710-4 @ MPU. 2026/2027 AI-Driven Smart Monitoring and Disease Management System for Cowpea Cultivation Background and Motivation: The…
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Congratulations to Cai on her successful PhD defense!
We are proud to share that Jianxiu Cai successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday (Apr 23, 2026). Her work, “Computational Modeling of Peptide Bioactivities Using Sequence-based Deep Learning Architecture”, designed both large and slim deep learning models to address the challenges of peptide activity prediction, generating highly accurate models despite…
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Xiangyu’s work on spatial gene expression prediction is now published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Congratulations to Xiangyu on the publication of the new work in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence! In this paper, the team proposes CrossToGene, a bidirectional cross-modality interaction framework for predicting spatial gene expression from histopathological images. The method introduces spatial encoding to capture both macro/micro tissue cues, a bidirectional cross-modal…
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Xinpo’s Recent Studies on Drug–Target Interaction and Molecular Modeling Are Now Published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and the Journal of Cheminformatics
Congratulations to Xinpo Lou on the publication of his two recent works in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and Journal of Cheminformatics! The proposed MambaTransDTA model introduces a novel hybrid Mamba–Transformer architecture for drug–target binding affinity prediction. By effectively combining long-range dependency modeling with local interaction learning, the model…
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Xinke’s work on DTI prediction is now published in Digital Discovery
Congratulations to Xinke Zhan on the publication of his new work in Digital Discovery! The innovative multi-perspective attention approach of the MAARDTI model offers a powerful advance for the prediction of drug-target interactions. We look forward to its impact on drug discovery! We are especially grateful for the many constructive…
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The Team Publishes New Progress in Chemical Ecotoxicological Prediction in ACS Omega
Congrats to Xinpo on his ACS Omega paper published on Aug 12 comparing machine learning and deep graph learning for chemical ecotoxicity prediction. The study highlights the superior performance of GCN for environmental safety modeling, especially for same-species predictions. However, cross-species prediction remains challenging. Immediate testing of chemicals is available…
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Screening of novel anticancer peptides from bacterial genome
Our work on the discovery of novel anticancer peptides using AI approaches is published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. This is a collaborative work with the team of Henry Kwok, Chris Wong, and Lawrence Si from University of Macau. In this research, we developed an AI workflow…
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Exploring Frontiers at the Sino-German Symposium on AI in Medicine on Nov 16-18, 2023 in Shanghai, China
The Sino-German Medical Artificial Intelligence Conference, co-organized by Tongji University and the Technical University of Munich, and hosted by Tongji University’s affiliated Tongji Hospital, concluded successfully. Themed “Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Medical Practitioners,” the conference brought together numerous academics and clinical researchers to share their latest research and…
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Joining the AIDD Centre at MPU
Starting in September 2023, Shirley Siu joined the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Driven Drug Discovery at Macao Polytechnic University.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 