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Personal Information

• Name: Shanjun Mao
• Title/Position: Associate Professor, Master’s Supervisor
• Office: College of Finance and Statistics Building, Hunan University (Office Number)
• E-mail: shjmao@hnu.edu.cn
• Research Interests: Statistical Modeling and Computing; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
• School Official Homepage Link：HNU-Shanjun Mao

Biography

Shanjun Mao, born in September 1993 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, received his Ph.D. in Statistics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, and also serves as Deputy Head of the department.

Education

• 2017.8–2020.7
  Ph.D. in Statistics, Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Supervisor: Prof. Xiaodan Fan

• 2014.9–2017.6
  M.S. in Probability and Statistics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University
  Supervisor: Prof. Da Zhou

• 2010.9–2014.6
  B.S. in Mathematics, School of Science, Nanchang University

Publications

Note: * denotes corresponding author; ✝ denotes co-first author.

1. Yixhu Diao, Jiaxin Li, Hai Fang, Shanjun Mao (2026). Network-phenotype key gene screening (NPKG) identifies therapeutically relevant targets for neurodegenerative diseases. Genes & Diseases, 102033.

2. Weidi Sun, Jiamin Cai, Yuping Yan, Zhijia Zhu, Dongchen Zhang, Shanjun Mao, Zilong Zhao (2025). Developing superselective homobivalent ligands differentiating membrane antigen density by exploring the spatial limit of the bivalency on cells. Analytical Chemistry, 97(42), 23022–23031.

3. Tingting Jiang, Xingyu Liu, Wencan He, Hepei Li, Xiang Yan, Qian Yu, Shanjun Mao (2025). Development and validation of a small-sample machine learning model to predict 5-year overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. BMC Cancer, 25(1), 1040.

4. Shanjun Mao, Chenyang Zhang, Runjiu Chen, Shan Tang, Xiaodan Fan, Jie Hu (2025). Cell Lineage Tracing: methods, applications, and challenges. Quantitative Biology, 13(4), e70006.

5. Shunqi Yang, Lingyi Hu, Pengzhou Chen, Xiangxiang Zeng, Shanjun Mao* (2025). AJGM: Joint Learning of Heterogeneous Gene Networks with Adaptive Graphical Model. Bioinformatics, btaf096.

6. Xinyue Wang, Kegao Yan, Yang Shi, Han Hu, Shanjun Mao* (2025). The Nonlinear Impact of Economic Growth Pressure on Urban Land Green Utilization Efficiency—Empirical Research from China. Land, 14(4), 739.

7. Changqing Zhong, Shanjun Mao, Shan Tang, Pengfei Zheng, Jianqiang Peng (2025). Impact of COVID-19 on Door-to-Wire Time in ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treatment: The Role of Digital Communication. *BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 25(1), 1–11.

8. Shanjun Mao, Xiao Huang, Runjiu Chen, Chenyang Zhang, Yizhu Diao, Zongjin Li, Qingzhe Wang, Shan Tang, Shuixia Guo (2024). STW-MD: A Novel Spatio-Temporal Weighting and Multi-Step Decision Tree Method for Considering Spatial Heterogeneity in Brain Gene Expression Data. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(2).

9. Shan Tang, Shanjun Mao✝, Yangyang Chen, Falong Tan, Lihua Duan, Cong Pian, Xiangxiang Zeng (2023). LRBmat: A novel gut microbial interaction and individual heterogeneity inference method for colorectal cancer. *Journal of Theoretical Biology, 571, 111538.

10. Jin Du, Chaojie Wang, Lijun Wang, Bencong Zhu, Zheng Li, Xiaodan Fan* (2023). Automatic block-wise genotype-phenotype association detection based on hidden Markov model. BMC Bioinformatics, 24, 138.

11. Shanjun Mao, Xiaodan Fan, Jie Hu (2021). Correlation for tree-shaped datasets and its Bayesian estimation. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 164, 107307.

12. Changqing Zhong, Shanjun Mao, Jieli Guang, Yi Zhang (2021). Application of the improved simple bedside method for emergency temporary pacemaker implantation suitable for primary hospitals. *Scientific Reports, 11, 16850.

13. Cong Pian, Shanjun Mao, Jiali Yang, Guangle Zhang, Jin Du, Suet Yi Leung, Yuanyuan Chen, Xiaodan Fan* (2020). Discovering Cancer-related miRNAs from miRNA-target Interactions by Support Vector. Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids, 19, 1423–1433.

14. Shanjun Mao, Da Zhou, Yiping Zhang, Zhihong Zhang, Jingjing Cao (2018). Weighted Patches Based Face Super-Resolution Via Adaboost. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 1, 234–239.

15. Da Zhou, Shanjun Mao, Jing Cheng, Kaiyi Chen, Xiaofang Cao, Jie Hu* (2018). A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Stochastic Phenotypic Plasticity Model of Cancer Cells. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 454, 70–79.

16. Bin Wu, Shanjun Mao, Jiazeng Wang, Da Zhou* (2016). Control of Epidemics via Social Partnership Adjustment. Physical Review E, 94(6), 062314.

Research Projects

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Program: Network analysis methods for spatio-temporal brain data in Alzheimer’s disease, 2025–2027, Principal Investigator.

2. National Bureau of Statistics Project: Machine-learning-based early-warning system for local government debt risks, 2025–2026, Principal Investigator.

3. Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Youth Program: Statistical analysis of spatio-temporal gene regulatory networks, 2025–2027, Principal Investigator.

4. Hunan Provincial Department of Education Outstanding Youth Project: Reconstruction of dynamic gene regulatory networks based on high-missing multi-dimensional data, 2024–2026, Principal Investigator.

5. Changsha Natural Science Foundation Project: Bayesian inference for identifying spatio-temporal causal effects of gene regulation, 2024–2025, Principal Investigator.

Academic Service

Reviewer for journals including Briefings in Bioinformatics and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.