Competitions

Genomics and proteomics

2023 Winner in GSK.ai CausalBench Challenge Task: Predicting genomic response to targeted perturbation
Deng K, Guan Y

2022 Winner in GSK.ai GeneDisco Challenge Task: Maximize model performance: Selecting gene targets for interventional experiments in order to maximize the performance of a machine-learning model trained on the data selected.
Deng K, Guan Y

2021 1st Place in NeurIPS Competition Multimodal Single-Cell Data Integration
Deng K, Guan Y.
Sub challenge: predicting GEX → ATAC
Sub challenge: Joint embedding

2020 Winner in C3.ai COVID-19 Grand Challenge
Guan Y, Zhou M.

2020 1st Place in Allen Institute Cell Lineage Reconstruction DREAM Challenge- sub 1
Zhang H, Guan Y.

2020 1st Place in ENCODE Imputation Challenge
Li H, Guan Y.

2018 1st Place in NCI-CPTAC DREAM Proteomics Challenge
Li H, Guan Y.  
Sub 1: Imputing missing proteins
Sub 2: Predicting protein abundance from transcriptomes
Sub 3: Predicting phosphoprotein abundance from proteomics 

2017 1st Place in ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Prediction DREAM Challenge
Guan Y.  

2016 1st Place in ICGC-TCGA somatic mutation calling Challenge - Tumor Heterogeneity
Zhang HGuan Y.
Sub 1: Predicting tumor purity, subclone number
Sub 2: Predicting subclone composition
Sub 3: Reconstruct phylogenetic trees

2014 1st Place in DREAM Broad Institute Gene Essentiality Challenge - sub 2  
Guan Y.  

2013 1st Place in DREAM Breast Cancer Network Inference - sub3
Zhu F, Guan Y

Clinical informatics

2023 Winner of Rare-X A Rare Disease Open Science Data Challenge: Sub 3 hypothesis testing with Natural Language Learning
Deng K, Guan Y.

2022 Outside T1D Award:Type 1 Diabetes D-challenge outcome prediction

Zhang H, Nan Y, Du S, Guan Y. 

2021 Co-winner in COVID-19 EHR DREAM Challenge
Arkansas AI Campus, Guan Y

2021 Finalist (7 out of 300 organizations) of CMS AI Challenge
Guan Y., Ann Arbor Algorithms

2019 1st Place in Discover, Innovate, Impact National Data Science Challenge: Sepsis Onset Detection
Guan Y,  Chen X.

2019 1st Place in Malaria DREAM Challenge-sub 2
Guan Y.

2017 1st Place in Multiple Myeloma DREAM Challenge - sub 3
Guan Y.  

2015 1st Place in Prize4Life ALS Challenge
Guan Y. 
Sub 1 Predict survival in ALS PROACT data
Sub 2 Predict survival in Natural Registry data

2015 1st Place in Prostate Cancer Challenge - Sub 2
Guan Y

2014 1st Place in Rheumatoid Arthritis DREAM Challenge
Zhu F, Guan Y.  
Sub 1 Predicting drug response based on clinical and expression
Sub 2 Predicting drug response based on genetics 

2014 1st Place in Alzheimer’s Disease Big Data Challenge - sub 1 predicting MMSE decline
Zhu F, Guan Y

Imaging

2022. NeurIPS Sensorium -- predicting single neurons' response to individual images

    Deng K, Guan Y.

2020 Rheumatoid Arthritis 2 DREAM Challenge - predicting narrowing
Li H, Guan Y

2018 Gold Medal in Data Science Bowl Cell nuclei segmentation
Dong W, Guan Y.

2016 Winning Algorithm in DREAM Digital Mammography Challenge -Sub-challenge 2
Guan Y. 

2016 Gold Medal in Data Science Bowl Heart Left Ventricle Segmentation
Dong W, Guan Y.  

2014 1st Place in Alzheimer’s Big Data Challenge - Sub 3 Brain Image Prediction of MMSE
Zhu F, Guan Y

Signal processing and digital biomarkers

2020 1st Place in BEAT-PD Parkinson’s disease endpoint challenge -Sub 3 predicting tremor
Guan Y.

2018 1st Place in PhysioNet ‘You Snooze- You Win’ Challenge
Li H, Guan Y.  

2017 1st Place in Parkinson’s Disease Digital Biomarker Challenge
Guan Y

Pharmaceuticals, pharmacogenomics and chemoinformatics

2016 1st Place in AstraZenaca Sanger Drug Combination Prediction Challenge.
Guan Y
Sub 1. Predicting synergy based on monotherapy, expression and genetics
Sub 2. Predicting synergy based on genetics and expression
Sub 3. Predicting synergy for new drug pairs unseen in training set

2015 1st Place in DREAM Olfaction Challenge.
Guan Y