Chenyong Miao

Chenyong Miao

PhD Student

  • Cohort PhD Students
  • Tenure 2016-2020
  • Now Phenomics Data Scientist, Bayer Crop Science
  • ORCID 0000-0002-0904-3707

Chenyong Miao joined the Schnable lab in 2016 and his research in the lab primarily foucses on plant Population Genetics and Phenomics using statistical and machine learning approaches. He got his PhD in Agronomy in 2020 and then joined the Bayer Crop Science as a Data Scientist. He is trying to solve challenging problems in the breeding pipeline using cutting edge DL models along with his domain knowledge to help build the future of precision breeding.

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In the News

  • Bayer Crop Science campus talk

    James Schnable gave a talk at Bayer’s main Crop Science campus in St. Louis. He caught up with lab alum Chenyong Miao, now a genomic data scientist at Bayer, and briefly met Bayer CEO Bill Anderson (in passing, in an elevator) during the visit.

Recent Publications

  • Van Haute M, Yang Q, Korth N, Happ M, Kok CR, Miao C, Clarke J, Karnik K, Eskridge K, Urrea CA, Hyten DL, Schnable JC, Rose D, Benson A (2025) Genetic variation and historical breeding patterns in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) affect fermentation patterns by the human gut microbiome. Communications Biology doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-09089-2
  • Miao C, Guo A, Thompson AM, Yang J, Ge Y, Schnable JC (2021) Automation of leaf counting in maize and sorghum using deep learning. The Plant Phenome Journal doi: 10.1002/ppj2.20022 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.12.19.423626
  • Mural RV, Grzybowski M, Miao C, Damke A, Sapkota S, Boyles RE, Salas Fernandez MG, Schnable PS, Sigmon B, Kresovich S, Schnable JC (2021) Meta-analysis identifies pleiotropic loci controlling phenotypic trade-offs in sorghum. Genetics doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab087 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.10.27.355495
  • Tross MC, Gaillard M, Zweiner M, Miao C, Grove RJ, Li B, Benes B, Schnable JC (2021) 3D reconstruction identifies loci linked to variation in angle of individual sorghum leaves. PeerJ doi: 10.7717/peerj.12628 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2021.06.15.448566
  • Gaillard M, Benes B, Schnable JC, Miao C (2020) Sorghum Segmentation by Skeleton Extraction. CVPPP 2020
  • Han J, Wang P, Wang Q, Lin Q, Yu G, Miao C, Dao Y, Wu R, Schnable JC, Tang H, Wang K (2020) Genome-wide characterization of DNase I-hypersensitive sites and cold response regulatory landscapes in grasses. The Plant Cell doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00716
  • Gaillard M, Miao C, Schnable JC, Benes B (2020) Voxel carving based 3D reconstruction of sorghum identifies genetic determinants of radiation interception efficiency. Plant Direct doi: 10.1002/pld3.255 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.04.06.028605
  • Zheng Z, Hey S, Jubery T, Liu T, Yang Y, Coffey L, Miao C, Sigmon B, Schnable JC, Hochholdinger F, Ganapathysubramanian B, Schnable PS (2020) Shared genetic control of root system architecture between Zea mays and Sorghum bicolor. Plant Physiology doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00752
  • Miao C, Xu Y, Liu S, Schnable PS, Schnable JC (2020) Increased power and accuracy of causal locus identification in time-series genome-wide association in sorghum. Plant Physiology doi: 10.1104/pp.20.00277 bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.02.16.951467
  • Miao C, Pages A, Xu Z, Rodene E, Yang J, Schnable JC (2020) Semantic segmentation of sorghum using hyperspectral data identifies genetic associations. Plant Phenomics doi: 10.34133/2020/4216373
  • Ge Y, Atefi A, Zhang H, Miao C, Ramamurthy RK, Sigmon B, Yang J, Schnable JC (2019) High-throughput analysis of leaf physiological and chemical traits with VIS-NIR-SWIR spectroscopy: A case study with a maize diversity panel. Plant Methods doi: 10.1186/s13007-019-0450-8
  • Miao C, Yang J, Schnable JC (2018) Optimizing the identification of causal variants across varying genetic architectures in crops. Plant Biotechnology Journal doi: 10.1111/pbi.13023
  • Miao C, Fang J, Li D, Liang P, Zhang X, Yang J, Schnable JC, Tang H (2018) Genotype-Corrector: improved genotype calls for genetic mapping. Scientific Reports doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28294-0
  • Tang H, Zhang X, Miao C, Zhang J, Ming R, Schnable JC, Schnable PS, Lyons E, Lu Jianguo (2015) ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps. Genome Biology doi: 10.1186/s13059-014-0573-1