Lab Members

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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. [homepage]

Tian Gan
Tian Gan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist (incoming) focusing on spatial modeling and dynamic networks. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from New York University. [homepage]

Chhiring
Chhiring Y. Lama, BSc.

PhD Student (Y2024-Present, 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.

Haotian Zhuang
Haotian Zhuang, BSc. (co-mentored)

PhD Student (Y2022-Present, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) focusing on developing foundation models for the analysis of single-cell immune profiling data.

Xingyuan Zhang
Xingyuan Zhang, BSc. (co-mentored)

PhD Student (Y2024-Present, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) focusing on developing AI and deep learning methods for single-cell and spatial omics data.

Charlotte Zhang
Charlotte Zhang, BA.

MSc Student (Y2025-2027, Biostatistics) focusing on computational epigenomics and multi-omics integration, with interests in machine learning for genomics and biomedical data science.

Alumni

Lixia Chen Wu, MSc. (Y2025-2026). PhD student at Stony Brook University.

Qi Liu, Ph.D. (Y2024-2026). Postdoc at Columbia University.

Xun Sun, MSc. (Y2024-2026). Project Manager at Abaka AI.

Matthew D. Eichner, BSc. (Y2024-2025). BEST/SIBS 2024 alumni. PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Zitao Zhang, MSc. (Y2024-2026). Research internship program at MSK GEMS.

Won Eui Hong, Ph.D. (Y2024-2026). Data scientist at NIH/NCI.

Xinyi Shang, MSc. (Y2023-2025). Chair's Award for Outstanding Master's Student. PhD student at UMass Amherst.

Yifei Zhao, MSc. (Y2022-2024). Computer Engineer at DISH.

Jingyi Yao, MSc. (Y2022-2024). PhD student at Boston University.

Wenhan Bao, MSc. (Y2021-2023). PhD student at Florida University.

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