• Work on Dissecting the Role of the Human Microbiome in COVID-19 via Metagenome-assembled Genomes [Nature Communications 2022] highlighted in Brighamhealthonamission.org, News-Medical.Net
• Work on Association of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome with Wheeze Frequency in Childhood Asthma [The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2022] featured as the Editor’s choice
• Work on Ecological dynamics of the gut microbiome in response to dietary fiber [The ISME Journal 2022] highted in Mirage News, CN-Healthcare, MedicalXpress, Today UK News, Ebiotrade, AZO Life Sciences.
• Work on StrainPanDA: linked reconstruction of strain composition and gene content profiles via pangenome-based decomposition of metagenomic data [iMeta 2022] highlighted in CN-Healthcare. 
• Work on Rejuvenating the human gut microbiome [Trends in Molecular Medicine 2022] highlighted in Cell Press, NBC News, The Economist, WIRED, Discover Magazine, The Scientist, ZME Science, MicrobiomePost, HealthDay, Revyuh, Cosmos, Interesting Engineering, ScienceDaily, genomeweb
• Work on  Age-related loss of gene-to-gene transcriptional coordination among single cells [Nature Metabolism 2020] highlighted in Nature Metabolism News&Views, EurekAlert, Phys.org, News Break, ScienceDaily, CR Society International.
• Work on An Ecological Framework to Understand the Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation [Nature Communications 2020] highlighted in Science in Boston, HMS-Today’s News, EurekAlert, MedicalXpress, TodayHeadline, MashupMD.
• Work on Finding key players in complex networks through deep reinforcement learning [Nature Machine Intelligence 2020] highlighted in TechXplore, Toutiao.
• Work on Overcome Competitive Exclusion in Ecosystems [iScience 2020] featured as a cover story. 
• Work on Revealing complex ecological dynamics via symbolic regression [BioEssays 41(12), 1970121 (2019)] featured as a cover story.
• Work on Bridges in Complex Networks, [Physical Review E 97, 012307 (2018)] highlighted in PRE Kaleidoscope. 
• Work on Mapping the ecological networks of microbial communities, [Nature Communications 8, 2042 (2017)] highlighted in ScienceDaily; ScienceNewsline; Science News Daily; ParallelState; Anygator; Newzeb; Phys.Org; Eurekalert; MGTV; QuantaMagazine; WIRED.
• Work on Control of Fluxes in Metabolic Networks [Genome Research 26, 956, (2016)] featured as a cover story.
• Work on COPD Subtypes Identified by Network-Based Clustering of Blood Gene Expression [Genomics 107, 51 (2016)] featured as a cover story.
• Work on Universality of Human Microbial Dynamics, [Nature 534, 259262 (2016)] highlighted in Nature News&Views; Nature Physics (Research Highlights); BWH Research Briefs; HMS Paper Chase; Medical Research; Eurekalert; ScienceDaily; ScienceNewsLine; Medical Press.
• Work on Observability of complex systems [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A 110(7) 2460-2465 (2013)] highlighted in PNAS cover story; Nature News; PHYSORG.com; News@Northeastern.
• Work on Controllability of complex networks [Nature 473, 167 (2011)] highlighted in Nature cover story; Nature News&Views; Science News&Analysis; ScienceNews; WIRED; ScienceDaily; PHYSORG.com; MITNews; MITspotlight; News@Northeastern; Faculty of 1000 (F1000).
• Work on Random-field Ising model in and out of equilibrium [Europhys. Lett. 86, 56003 (2009)] highlighted by the Co-Editor; featured in Europhysics News 40, 6 (2009) and Europhys. Lett. Best of 2009 collection.