Adityarup Laha

Research

My PhD at the National University of Singapore focuses on long-read transcriptomics. Before that I worked on single-cell transcriptomics and statistical genetics, along with a fair amount of applied survey statistics at ISI, which is on the Coursework page.

PhD

  1. 2026 – (2030)ongoing

    PhD in Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore

    Long-read transcriptomics with the Göke Lab at A*STAR GIS.

    with Dr. Jonathan Göke (A*STAR GIS), Dr. Alexandre Thiéry (NUS)

Research projects

  1. Aug 2025 – present ongoing

    scAICME: Adaptive marker-guided annotation of single-cell and spatial RNA-seq data

    A two-stage semi-supervised framework for marker-guided annotation of single-cell RNA-seq data. Canonical marker panels give candidate labels with confidence scores, the high-confidence cells then train an ensemble of supervised classifiers that labels the rest by consensus, and the framework extends to spatial transcriptomics. It is implemented as a Python package built on Scanpy, and a manuscript on it is in preparation.

    with Prof. Raghunath Chatterjee (ISI Kolkata), Dr. Jayant Jha (ISI Kolkata)

    GitHub

    Part of this work formed my Master of Statistics thesis.

  2. Jun – Nov 2025 completed

    Coordinate descent for adaptively-weighted quantile regression

    with Dr. Sumanta Basu (Cornell University), Prof. Diganta Mukherjee (ISI Kolkata)

  3. Apr – Oct 2025 completed

    Extending joint location-scale tests to multivariate phenotypes

    with Dr. Arunabha Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

    Follows on from the proxy-tissues project below, which was discontinued.

  4. May 2023 – May 2024 discontinued

    Sample size compensation for using proxy tissues in transcriptome-wide association studies

    with Dr. Arunabha Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

  5. Jun – Dec 2022 completed

    Emotional responses to Hindustani classical music from cognitive data

    An exploratory analysis of EEG recordings of listeners.

    with Dr. Shankha Sanyal (Jadavpur University)

  6. Jun – Aug 2022 completed

    Reading project on Bayesian statistics

    Hierarchical modelling, the Gibbs sampler, and MCMC.

    with Prof. Kiranmoy Das (ISI Kolkata)