Lab Members

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Qi Liu
Qi Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist focusing on developing AI applications for healthcare and biomedical fields. Holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from City University of Hong Kong, specializing in utilizing structure-based models to achieve robustness and generalization in healthcare AI algorithms. Currently focusing on modeling Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and spatial omics data. Jointly mentored with Dr. Ying Wei (TRAIL). [homepage]
Xu Liao
Xu Liao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist focusing on multi-modal modelling, representation learning and deep generative models. Holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and Health Data Science from Duke-NUS, specializing in developing statistical and deep learning methods for RNA velocity and integrative analysis of single and spatial omics data. [homepage]
Aiying Huang
Chhiring Y. Lama, BSc.
PhD Student (Y2024-Present) in Biostatistics focusing on developing statistical and mathematical framework for analyzing genetic and genomic data. Previously, she was a Computational Research Technician at Weill Cornell Medicine, analyzing scMultiomic data to study genotype–phenotype relationships in myeloproliferative neoplasm and classic Hodgkin lymphoma.
Zitao Zhang
Zitao Zhang, BSc. [Research Internship Program, GEMS, at MSK]
MSc Student (Y2024-2026, Theory and Methods track) in Biostatistics, focusing on modelling the temporal gene expression using single-cell RNA sequencing data and its applications in cancer immunotherapy.
Xun Sun
Xun Sun, BSc.
MSc Student (Y2024-2026, Public Health Data Science track) in Biostatistics, focusing on deep learning and large language models for emotion-aware natural language processing.
Lixia Chen Wu
Lixia Chen Wu, BA
MSc student (Y2025–2026, Computational Biology Track) in Computer Science, focusing on integrating deep learning models with single-cell and spatial multi-omics data for genomic analyses and disease biomarker discovery.

Alumni

Won Eui Hong, Ph.D. (Y2024-2026), current postdoc at Columbia University.

Qinyu Xiong, MSc. (Y2024-2026, Advanced Machine Learning track).

Xinyi Shang, MSc. (Y2023-2025, Theory and Methods track). Chair’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Student. PhD student at UMass Amherst.

Aiying Huang, MSc. (Y2023-2025, Public Health Data Science track).

Lehan (Chloe) Zou, MSc. (Y2023-2025, Public Health Data Science track).

Yifei Zhao, MSc. (Y2022-2024, Theory and Methods track). Computer Engineer at DISH.

Jingyi Yao, MSc. (Y2022-2024, Theory and Methods track). PhD student at Boston University.

Wenhan Bao, MSc. (Y2021-2023, Theory and Methods track). PhD student at Florida University.

Tianchuan Gao, MSc.(Y2021-2023, Theory and Methods track). PhD student at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).