The Shen Laboratory focuses on Environmental Health Data Science where we integrate environmental exposures, multi-omics, and health outcomes. We approach this framework through computational precision environmental health and biomarker discovery from high dimensional omics and environmental exposure data.
Dr. Shen UTA Faculty profile
Dr. Shen CV
News
- October 2024, Shen lab at SETAC North America 2024 annual meeting at Fort Worth! Yidan presented her work titled “Multiple Prenatal Outdoor Exposures are Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiota: An Investigation with Bayesian Networks” & Dhru presented his summer research work titled “Machine Learning Webtool for Chemical Ecotoxicity Prediction”! Great work, Yidan & Dhru!
- September 2024, Dr. Shen published a new paper at Briefings in Bioinformatics titled AESurv: autoencoder survival analysis for accurate early prediction of coronary heart disease
- September/June 2024, Dr. Shen submitted two NIH grants (R24 and Trailblazer R21) as contact-PI, totalling $2.78 million
- September 2024, Dr. Shen gave an invited lecture at University of Texas at Dallas.
- August 2024, Shen lab welcomes PhD student Yidan Zhang!!
- August 2024, Interactive Cohort Network website is launched: https://www.cohortnetwork.org/. We invite you to take a moment to navigate the interactive Cohort Network. Great job, Dhru, for developing this website!
- June 2024, Dr. Shen gave a guest lecture at Columbia University SHARP Python bootcamp.
- May 2024, First Shen lab dinner!
- May 2024, Shen lab welcomes Dhruvilkumar Ashokbhai Chodvadiya (master student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering), Katherine Atkins (undergraduate student at EES), and Aaron Kuang (high school student at Greenhill High School)! Dhru, Katy, and Aaron will work on three different projects related to environmnetal health data science!
- May 2024, Undergraduate student Katherine Atkins received USDA-ARS-UTA summer internship! Katy will be co-mentored by Dr. Shen and USDA scientists Dr. Amanda Nelson and Dr. Mahesh Maskey in summer 2024. Congrats, Katy!
- May 2024, Dr. Shen’s Spring 24 ENVR/GEOL 4458, EVSE/GEOL5458 Machine Learning for Earth and Environmental Scientists course received the average of 4.55/5 course evaluation score! What a fun teaching experience!
- May 2024, Dr. Shen received UTA College of Science Research Innovation Grant, a $12,000 seed grant to investigate computational toxicology.
- December 2023, Dr. Shen received 100%, 5/5 course evaluation for Fall 23 ENVR 4199 Seminars in Earth and Environmental Sciences Course.
- Fall 2023, Dr. Shen gave invited lectures at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC and Baylor University in Waco, TX.
- December 2023, Dr. Shen received Doctoral Recruiting Grant from The University of Texas at Arlington Graduate School, a grant for six prospective Ph.D. student on campus visits.
- October 2023, Dr. Shen gave an invited lecture on Academic Interviewing and Negotiation at Columbia University academic application bootcamp.
- September 2023, Dr. Shen recevied The University of Texas System Rising STARs award, a $100,000 competitive internal funding to help build #ShenLab.
- September 2023, The Shen Laboratory opens at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington
- May 2023, Our Cohort Network paper was published as Cover at Environmental Science & Technology! Read
- Spring 2023, Shen Laboratory website launched. research; publications; talks; teaching; join us
- Fall 2022-Spring 2023, Dr. Shen gave invited lectures at University of Texas at Arlington, Texas A&M University-College Station, University of California, Riverside, and University of Kentucky.
- December 2022, Dr. Shen was featured in article “Harnessing high-dimensional data in environmental health sciences” Research Features. DOI: 10.26904/RF-144-3452044615. Feature article link
- December 2022, Dr. Shen was interviewed by UCLA GradSWE “Women in Science: we have the power to change the world” interview series hosted by Yifan Gao. Episode 6 – Yike Shen. Interview link
Resources
We support open and transparent research, all code for our publications (leading and/or corresponding authors) are available at our GitHub Repository;
list of our publications;
list of Dr. Shen’s talks
Contact Information
Yike Shen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Texas at Arlington
500 Yates Street, Room 217
Arlington, Texas 76019
Email: yike.shen@uta.edu
Updated 08/18/2024