CHUN LI, PH.D.

Assistant Director for Education

Chun Li, Ph.D. is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.  He has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in sta­tis­ti­cal genet­ics research and genetic data analy­sis.  He is cur­rently work­ing on devel­op­ing meth­ods for detect­ing somatic changes using next-generation sequenc­ing data.  He is also inter­ested in devel­op­ing meth­ods to effi­ciently mine elec­tronic med­ical records.  Active in col­lab­o­ra­tive research, he has been work­ing with inves­ti­ga­tors in var­i­ous fields such as can­cer epi­demi­ol­ogy, clin­i­cal phar­ma­col­ogy, oph­thal­mol­ogy, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, autism, type 2 dia­betes, etc.  He has pub­lished in Nature Genet­ics, New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, Blood, Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Human Genet­ics, Bioinformatics, etc.

Affiliations

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Recent Publications

  1. Lin, CL, Wu, HC, Yu, NC, Liu, YC, Chien, WC. Factors associated with geriatric syndromes in older adults with type 2 diabetes. Aging Clin Exp Res 2025; 38 (1): 1. PubMed PMID:41427979 .
  2. Chun, CE, Kim, JS, Choe, N, Ma, SA, Han, JS, Kang, HJ. Applying and adapting the welfare quality® protocol for assessing animal welfare in Korean cattle and pig slaughterhouses. J Anim Sci Technol 2025; 67 (6): 1406-1426. PubMed PMID:41426209 PubMed Central PMC12715445.
  3. Borham, A, Kamal, LT, Chun, S. Artificial intelligence in epidemic watch: revolutionizing infectious diseases surveillance. Front Digit Health 2025; 7 : 1692617. PubMed PMID:41425282 PubMed Central PMC12711821.
  4. Urbanek, L, Schaack, D, Gunawardene, MA, Chun, KRJ, Schmidt, B. One-stop strategy combining pulmonary vein isolation with balloon-in-basket pulsed field ablation and left atrial appendage closure: a case report. Eur Heart J Case Rep 2025; 9 (12): ytaf627. PubMed PMID:41424654 PubMed Central PMC12715504.
  5. Morris, MX, Rustom, F, Chun, B, Limon, D, Raghavan, N, Guo, L, Rajesh, A. Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Research: Transformative Impacts and Evolving Ethical Challenges. Am Surg 2025; : 31348251409740. PubMed PMID:41424266 .
  6. Kwak, JH, Kwon, TU, Kwon, YJ, Park, H, Kang, YJ, Shin, J, Chun, YJ. Gapmer Antisense Oligonucleotide Targeting E-Cadherin Rescues Abnormal Keratinization in X-Linked Ichthyosis Models. Biomol Ther (Seoul) 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41423897 .
  7. Chun, J, Castelo, A, Woodland, M, O'Connor, C, Taie, MA, Eltaher, M, Gupta, A, Daoud, B, Ding, S, Bennett, J et al.. Uncertainty-guided test-time optimization for personalizing segmentation models in longitudinal medical imaging. Med Phys 2026; 53 (1): e70206. PubMed PMID:41423658 .
  8. Wang, X, Li, R, Cheng, B, Sun, Y, Yao, X, Wang, C. Combined toxicity of polyethylene micro/nanoplastics and PFOA in zebrafish (Danio rerio): Impacts on antioxidant, neurotransmission, and gut microbiota. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol 2025; : 104907. PubMed PMID:41422984 .
  9. Ko, PC, Neves, BB, Freak-Poli, R. Locus of control and loneliness among older Australians before and during the pandemic. J Affect Disord 2025; : 120899. PubMed PMID:41422979 .
  10. Lee, K, Chun, M, Kwon, J, Choi, J, Lee, SH, Im, CH. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based computer-aided diagnosis of major depressive disorder using explainable artificial intelligence: Comparison with conventional machine learning. J Affect Disord 2025; : 120985. PubMed PMID:41422962 .
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