Research is not to make a living, but to make a difference.





Lab Members


Ya-Mei Hu, Postdoctoral Associate
Education: PhD in Immunology
Taipei Medical University, 2013






Canping Chen, BME PhD Student
Education: M.S. in Clinical Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, 2022







Xiyue Zhao, BME PhD Student
Education: M.S. in Statistics, Auburn University, 2020







Yi Zhang, BME PhD Student
Education: M.S. in Cell Biology, Zhejiang University, 2021







Xiaofan Zhao, BME PhD Student
Education: M.S. in Bioinformatics, USC, 2019







Reuben Hoffman, T32 Postdoctoral Fellow (co-mentored with Pepper Schedin)
Education: PhD in Genetics, Stony Brook University, 2017








Lab Alumni

Duanchen Sun, Postdoctoral Associate (07/2017 -- 08/2021)
Education: PhD in Operations Research and Bioinformatics, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017
Subsequent Position: Professor of Mathematics, Qilu Scholar, Shandong University






Xiangnan Guan, Postdoctoral Associate (08/2018 -- 09/2020)
Education:PhD in Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, 2018
Subsequent Position: Associate scientist at Genentech, South San Francisco, CA







Chaojie Wang, Postdoctoral Associate (09/2017 -- 02/2019)
Education:PhD in Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 2017
Subsequent Position: Bioinformatics scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hopewell NJ








Wes Horton, Computational Biologist


Lily Xia, High School Summer Intern (2019 Summer)
High School Student; Now at USC


Alan Ma, High School Summer Intern (2021 Summer)
High School Student; Now at Stanford
The summer intern project was awarded as an international finalist in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)


Wendy Du, High School Summer Intern (2021 Summer)
High School Student; Now at UCSD




Susan Liu, Visiting student (06/2021 -- 08/2023)
Education: Student in Computer Science, Oregon State University
Subsequent Position: INTEL, Oregon






Michael Walsh, Undergraduate Intern (2017 Summer)
University of Washington