Christy Lee

PhD Student in Statistics
lee700@g.ucla.edu

Christy is a Ph.D. student in Statistics. She obtained her B.As in Biology and Mathematics from the University of Southern California and was previously an M.S. student in Statistics at UCLA. She is currently assisting with single cell genomics projects.

Publications:

75. Xia, L.*, Lee, C.*, and Li, J.J. (2024). Statistical method scDEED for detecting dubious 2D single-cell embeddings and optimizing t-SNE and UMAP hyperparameters. Nature Communications 15:1753. (Featured in Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights) [ Nature Methods: Seeing data as t-SNE and UMAP do ] [ SOFTWARE ] | [ PDF ]

68. Yang, L., Chen, X., Lee, C., Shi, J., Lawrence, E.B., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Gao, N., Jung, S.Y., Creighton, C.J., Li, J.J., Cui, Y., Arimura, S., Lei, Y., Li, W., Shen, L. (2023). Functional characterization of age-dependent p16 epimutation reveals biological drivers and therapeutic targets for colorectal cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 42:113.