Research

Selected Publications

Sparse GCA and Thresholded Gradient Descent. (2023). [arXiv] [journal] [BibTex] [software] [talk]
- Sheng Gao, Zongming Ma.
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
CellLENS enables cross-domain information fusion for enhanced cell population delineation in single-cell spatial omics data. (2025). [bioRxiv] [journal] [Python Package] [BibTex]
- Bokai Zhu, Sheng Gao, Shuxiao Chen, Jason Yeung, Yunhao Bai, Amy Y Huang, Yao Yu Yeo, Guanrui Liao, Shulin Mao, Zhenghui G Jiang, Scott J Rodig, Alex K Shalek, Garry P Nolan, Sizun Jiang, Zongming Ma.
- Nature Immunology
An algorithm for forensic toolmark comparisons. (2024). [arXiv] [journal] [BibTex] [talk]
- Maria Cuellar, Sheng Gao, Heike Hofmann.
- Forensic Science International: Synergy (FSI Synergy)
DP-HyPO: An Adaptive Private Hyperparameter Optimization Framework. (2023). [arXiv] [conference] [BibTex]
- Hua Wang, Sheng Gao, Huanyu Zhang, Weijie J. Su, Milan Shen.
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Analytical composition of differential privacy via the edgeworth accountant. (2026+) [arXiv]
- Hua Wang, Sheng Gao, Huanyu Zhang, Weijie J. Su, Milan Shen.
- Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA, Under Review)

DP-HyPO: An Adaptive Private Hyperparameter Optimization Framework. NeurIPS 2023
Sparse GCA and Thresholded Gradient Descent. JSM 2020