Jiarong Li (Ka-Wing Lee)
English name: Kelvin Lee
E-mail: lijiarong2020@sinh.ac.cn
Biography: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0334-7757, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jiarong-Li-33

Education

• 2020-present, PhD candidate in Computational Biology, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences], Shanghai, China (Formerly known as CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology; Supervisor: Hong Li, PhD)
• 2016-2020, BS in Biological Science, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Supervisor: Zhi Huang, PhD and Weidong Yang, PhD)
• 2013-2016, Guangzhou No.4 Middle School, Guangzhou, China

Research Areas and Interests

• Applying single-cell and spatial-omics for cancer biology
• Data mining using large-cohort and multi-omics data
• Tumor evolution during tumorigenesis and metastasis

Selected Publications

(co-first author#, corresponding author*; full publication list could be found in my biography)

• Wang, H.#, Li, J.#, Jing, S., Lin, P., Qiu, Y., Yan, X., Yuan, J., Tang, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, H., Chen, Y., Wang, Z., & Li, H.* (2025). SOAPy: a Python package to dissect spatial architecture, dynamics, and communication. Genome biology, 26(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03550-5 [Toolkit available at: https://github.com/LiHongCSBLab/SOAPy]