Merge pull request #996 from ljhzhang/main

updating bio and avatar

Author: slieggi

content/authors/lijinghua/_index.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ organizations:
   url: "https://uci.edu/"
 
 # Short bio (displayed in user profile at end of posts)
-bio: I develop trustworthy machine learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics, with applications to disease understanding and drug discovery.
+bio: I develop trustworthy machine learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics, with applications to disease understanding and drug discovery. 
 
 # Social/Academic Networking
 social:
@@ -43,3 +43,7 @@ email: ""
 user_groups:
 - University of California Mentors
 ---
+
+I am a third year Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of California, Irvine. 
+
+My main research goal is to develop trustworthy computational methods to understand single-cell gene regulation, particularly in spatial contexts, and to translate these insights into applications for disease understanding and drug discovery. I am interested in causal inference and natural language processing.

content/authors/lijinghua/avatar.jpg

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ date: 2026-01-21
 lastmod: 2026-01-21
 ---
 
-![CauST Overview](featured.png)
-
 - **Topics:** spatial transcriptomics, spatial domain identification, causal inference, gene intervention
 - **Skills:**
   - **Programming Languages:** Python (PyTorch preferred)