Peng He, PhD
Dr. Peng He is a computational and developmental biologist whose work bridges statistics, genomics, and developmental biology. He earned his Bachelor of Science in statistics and biochemistry from the University of Hong Kong and completed his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. He pursued postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). His research focuses on using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to uncover the intrinsic and extrinsic regulators of cell fate decisions in development and disease.
Our research group develops cutting-edge analytical and experimental approaches to explore transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes at single-cell resolution and within spatial tissue contexts. We build high-resolution cellular atlases through rigorous data curation and integrative analysis, dissect gene regulatory networks by genetic perturbations in human organoids, and design computational tools to tackle key challenges in genomics.