On June 10, 2025, @HKU_D24H & @hkusbms co-organised the seminar “Computational Methods for Cell Identity and Cell-fate Decisions”. @PengyiYang82, Ph.D., from @SydneyMaths shared his team’s computational methodologies leveraging single-cell omics and spatial transcriptomics data. pic.twitter.com/UxRB52JQTJ
— Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (@HKU_D24H) June 20, 2025
Congratulations to our @SydneyMaths researchers who have secured @arc_gov_au Future Fellowships!
— Sydney Science (@Sydney_Science) July 11, 2025
Read more about their projects: https://t.co/5BZqs2YPOA pic.twitter.com/8qmBi66L5N
Meet new @stemcellreports Early Career Editorial Board member Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82)https://t.co/n2UNCldxA1
— Cell Press (@CellPressNews) July 10, 2024
Advocating for next generation scientists@ISSCR @martinperaJAX pic.twitter.com/HHxQt7l0Xk
President – Carissa Chen
— COMBINE (@combine_au) January 27, 2023
Vice President – Akari Komori
Secretary – Sara Zufan
Treasurer – Debbie Chong
ABACBS Student Representative – Sachintha Wijegunasekara
Congrats to our talented 2023 SOAR Prize recipients Dr @QuantumJB, A/Prof Markus Muellner, A/Prof @PengyiYang82 and A/Prof Peng Zhang 👏👏 https://t.co/5mlRbyKtgZ
— Sydney Science (@Sydney_Science) February 20, 2023
🎉 Congratulations to the 10 inaugural members of the new @stemcellreports Early Career Editorial Board! Learn about these distinguished #stemcell researchers who will work alongside associate editors to advise on journal content and programming. https://t.co/x1WCkU8K59 pic.twitter.com/gXobltbK4F
— ISSCR (@ISSCR) November 8, 2022
Excited to have @katie_zyner joining us as a Senior Research Officer and @hani_jieun staying with us as a Research Officer at the Computational Systems Biology group at @CMRI_AUS. Looking forward to exploring together stem cell identity and fate decisions in the coming years!
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) January 18, 2022
Hani and Taiyun's PhD Graduation!
Computational Systems Biology Team at the Jean for Gene fundraising
Hani's Farewell

Korean BBQ at Strathfield
In a recent study, Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) and colleagues propose a method to uncover cell identity genes and enhance the retrieval of cellular identities from scRNA-seq data (https://t.co/3g4giWaw84). https://t.co/aX47hbFB40
— Nature Computational Science (@NatComputSci) December 20, 2021
Congratulations @HaniKim127 for 2nd place in best oral presentation!! @PengyiYang82 @CMRI_AUS pic.twitter.com/sUJBP2hsgS
— Pierre Osteil (@PierreOsteil) December 9, 2019
Applying machine learning to biomedical science | EurekAlert! Science News https://t.co/TfvglItl4s #ai #ml #dl
— AI News Feed (@AINewsFeed) August 17, 2020
Very happy to announce CiteFuse our R package for CITE-seq data analysis is now online at @OUPBioinfo! https://t.co/q2JayiRLdf
— Hani Jieun Kim (@hani_jieun) May 1, 2020
Just another day at Carissa's favourite

The first official lab photo!
Poster prizes #OzSingleCell
— OzSingleCell Omics (@ozsinglecells) July 30, 2021
Student prizes:
First: Hani Jieun Kim
scMerge leverages factor analysis, stable expression, and pseudoreplication to merge multiple single-cell RNA-seq datasets https://t.co/JhjAERWbQ5
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) April 26, 2019
Congratulates to @HaniKim127 for receiving the full scholarship to attend the #EMBL #PhDCourse at #UTAS Hobart, Australia!
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) June 10, 2019
From @EMBLAustralia https://t.co/V4Wq5El2bq
QCMAP: An Interactive Web‐Tool for Performance Diagnosis and Prediction of LC‐MS Systems. https://t.co/8BU5Pc2Ukj
— Taiyun Kim (@taiyun_kim) May 21, 2019
My second first author paper!! Huge thank you to all the authors!!
Multi-omic Profiling Reveals Dynamics of the Phased Progression of Pluripotency: Cell Systems https://t.co/CvQHyZpk10
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) May 8, 2019
scMerge leverages factor analysis, stable expression, and pseudoreplication to merge multiple single-cell RNA-seq datasets https://t.co/JhjAERWbQ5
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) April 26, 2019
The first retreat at Hawks Nest, 2021


Hani won Best Oral Presentation at COMBINE 2019

Impact of similarity metrics on single-cell RNA-seq data clustering | Briefings in Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic https://t.co/YtsM4IcVpx
— Pengyi Yang (@PengyiYang82) August 23, 2018
This arvo we had a look at clustering & classification algorithms to make sense of the big data we #EMBLAPhD students are faced with nowadays! Thank you Dr. Kitty Lo, Dr. Pengyi Yang & Dr. Dario Strbenac from @Sydney_Uni Check out their in house R-Package: https://t.co/BMZXovaQFS pic.twitter.com/RiWf4DA0k1
— EMBL Australia (@EMBLAustralia) July 10, 2018
Our paper is highlighted on Nature Review Genetics! https://t.co/yqbnaYLjFN
— Yang lab (@PengyiYang82) October 24, 2017
Here it is #transcription #attenuators "an anticipated role for the enhancers" new study fm our group #systembiology https://t.co/SFbpIJVImy
— Senthilkumar Cinghu (@RasaTamilMani) October 6, 2017
Pengyi Yang congratulations on your achievement as a finalist #eureka17 pic.twitter.com/OmZnZIfAF7
— Sydney Science (@Sydney_Science) August 30, 2017
NF-Y Controls Fidelity of Transcription Initiation at Gene Promoters Through Maintenance of the Nucleosome-Depleted Region https://t.co/0gSOKjjsxF
— Yang lab (@PengyiYang82) July 20, 2018