People

Lab photo fall 2023: top row: Tingyang, Dajiang, Fan, Chen, Paige; second row: Keenan, Xinrui, Tang, Shuang, Avantika; third row: Lida, Shaoyi, Havell, Dieyi, Sen; bottom row: Natashia, Sherry, Xingyan, Siyuan, Jeniece.
Lab party: Summer 2023: from left to right: Xinrui, Shuang, Siyuan, Lida, Natashia, Chen, Shaoyi, Dajiang, Laura, Jeniece, Marisa, Joey, Paige, Avantika, Havell, Poom.

Principal investigator
Dajiang Liu, University Distinguished Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Dept. Public Health Sciences; Co-Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics Graduate Program; Director, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics (faculty page)

Faculty member
Sen Yang, Assistant Professor, Dept. Public Health Sciences (Faculty Page)

Postdoc fellows
Xin Yuan, Postdoc Scholar, Dept of Public Health Sciences (LinkedIn)

Ph.D. candidates
Shaoyi Zhang, Epidemiology, 2022-present (LinkedIn)
Avantika Diwadkar, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2022-present (LinkedIn)
Jeniece Regan, MD/PhD, 2022-present (LinkedIn)
Xinrui Wu, Biostatistics, 2023-present (LinkedIn)
Paige Bond, Biomedical Sciences, 2023-present (LinkedIn)
Dieyi Chen, Biostatistics, 2023-present (LinkedIn)
Fan Zhang, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2024-present (LinkedIn)
Sherry Zhang, Biostatistics, 2024-present (LinkedIn)
Tingyang Hu, Biostatistics, 2024-present (LinkedIn)
Tang Li, Biostatistics, 2024-present (LinkedIn)
Yunman Gu, Epidemiology, 2024-present (LinkedIn)
Paul Yu, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2025-present (LinkedIn)
Lujia Song, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2025-present (LinkedIn)
Habiba Abdelhalim, Biomedical Science, 2025-present (LinkedIn)

Rotation Students
Kaiyue Yu Biostatistics, 2025
Suraksha Vinod, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2025
Anush Karampuri, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2025

ALUMNI
Postdoc Fellows
Fang Chen, Ph.D. Postdoc research fellow (2016-2021) (LinkedIn Webpage). First position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist – R&D, Sema4.

Ph.D. Graduates
1. Yu Jiang, PhD in Biostatistics, 2015-2020 (LinkedIn) First position: Postdoc fellow at the University of California, San Francisco with Dr. John Witte.
2.J. Dylan Weissenkampen, PhD in Neuroscience, 2018-2020 (LinkedIn). First position: Postdoc fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Maja Bucan
3. Daniel McGuire, PhD in Biostatistics, 2016-2021 (LinkedIn) First position: Data scientist at Traveler’s Insurance.
4. Renan Sauteraud, PhD in Biostatistics, 2016-2021 (LinkedIn, Webpage) First position: Scientist I, Computational Biologist, 23andMe.
5. Jordan Hughey, PhD in Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2016-2021 (LinkedIn) First position: Computational Biologist, GSK.
6. Lina Yang, PhD in Biostatistics, 2017-2021 (LinkedIn) First position: Principal Biostatistician, Novartis.
7.Chachrit (Poom) Khunsriraksakul, MD/PhD (PhD in Bioinformatics and Genomics), 2019-2022. First position: continue medical school at Penn State.
8. Xingyan Wang, PhD in Biostatistics, 2018-2022 (LinkedIn Webpage). First position: Assistant Professor of Penn State College of Medicine.
9. Scott Eckert, PhD in Bioinformatics and Genomics 2017-2023 (LinkedIn) First position: Sr. Computational Biologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
10. Chen Wang, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2020-2023 (LinkedIn) First position: Data scientist at Gilead.
11. Shuang Gao, Biostatistics, 2020-2024. First position: Biostatistics Manager at Amgen (LinkedIn)
12. Keenan Anderson-Fears, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2020-2024, First position: postdoc at Veturi lab (LinkedIn)
13. Havell Markus, MD/PhD, 2021-2025 (LinkedIn), First position: continue MD phase of the study.
14. Lida Wang, Biostatistics, 2021-2025 (LinkedIn), First position: postdoc at Gusev lab at Harvard.
15. Siyuan Chen, Biostatistics, 2021-2025 (LinkedIn) First position: postdoc at Jessica Li lab at Fred Hutch.
16. Natashia Benjamin, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2021-2025 (LinkedIn)

M.S. Graduates
1. Yuhuan Cheng, MS in Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2019-2021. First position: Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the North Carolina State University.
2. Karine Moussa, Bioinformatics and Genomics, 2020-2021 (LinkedIn) First position: Senior System Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center