Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3276-4251
Qualifications (Brief)
PhD, MSc, BA
Qualifications/Experiences
- PhD in Data Science - City University of Hong Kong, 2025
- MSc in Health Data Science - University of New South Wales (UNSW), 2021
- BA in Statistics and Mathematics - State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019
- Research Assistant - Centre for Big Data Research in Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), 2020 - 2021
- Biostatistician Research Intern - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2018
Prizes/Honours
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) Award, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2021
- Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship, City University of Hong Kong, 2021
- Graduation Honors: with Excellence, University of New South Wales, 2019
- International Academic Excellence Award, University of New South Wales, 2019
- Graduation Honors: Summa Cum Laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019
- Excellent Scientific Talk Award, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2018
- Elevator Talk (3 minute thesis) Award, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2018
Research Interests/Areas
- Wearables and digital health
- Aging epidemiology
- Personal health monitoring
Teaching
- Semester A 2024/25 - Python for Data Science (SDSC 2001), City University of Hong Kong (Teaching Assistant)
- Semester B 2023/24 - Statistical Methods and Data Analysis (SDSC 2102), City University of Hong Kong (Teaching Assistant)
- Semester A 2023/24 - Python for Data Science (SDSC 2001), City University of Hong Kong (Teaching Assistant)
- Semester B 2022/23 - Data Visualization (SCSC 2004), City University of Hong Kong (Teaching Assistant)
- Semester A 2022/23 - Python for Data Science (SDSC 2001), City University of Hong Kong (Teaching Assistant)
- Spring 2018/19 - Mathematical Analysis for Management (MTH 131), State University of New York at Buffalo (Teaching Assistant)
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Research output
- 9 RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
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Bridging imaging and genomics: Domain knowledge guided spatial transcriptomics analysis
Zhang, W., Liu, X., Chen, T., Xu, W., Sakal, C., Nie, X., Wang, L. & Li, X., Mar 2026, In: Information Fusion. 127, Part A, 12 p., 103746.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Img2Gene: Debiased Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics with Biological Context from Pathology Images
Zhang, W., Chen, T., Xu, W., Sakal, C. & Li, X., 7 Apr 2026, (Online published) In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Integrating images and genomics for multi-modal cancer survival analysis via mixture of experts
Zhang, W., Xu, W., Chen, T., Sakal, C. & Li, X., Feb 2026, In: Information Fusion. 126, Part A, 103521.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Towards proactively improving sleep: machine learning and wearable device data forecast sleep efficiency 4-8 hours before sleep onset
Sakal, C., Chen, T., Xu, W., Zhang, W., Yang, Y. & Li, X., Aug 2025, In: Sleep. 48, 8, 16 p.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Association Between Sleep Efficiency Variability and Cognition Among Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Accelerometer Study
Sakal, C., Li, T., Li, J., Yang, C. & Li, X., 2024, In: JMIR Aging. 7, e54353.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
Open AccessFile29 Link opens in a new tab Citations (Scopus)34 Downloads (CityUHK Scholars)
Prizes
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HKPFS Academic Excellence and QE Award
SAKAL, C. J. (Recipient), 1 Sept 2023
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
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Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarships
SAKAL, C. J. (Recipient), 1 Nov 2021
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
Thesis
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Applications of Wearable Device Data Analysis to Personal Health Monitoring and Healthy Aging Promotion
SAKAL, C. J. (Author), LI, X. (Supervisor), 5 Jul 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis