Postdocs

Name Current Position
Xuexia Wang Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas
Xianyun Mao Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn Inc.
Satish Chikkagoudar Cybersecurity and Machine Learning/AI Researcher, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Yichuan Liu Bioinformatics Scientist, Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Jihwan Oh (co-advised by Qi Long)
Senior Scientist, Merck
Yafei Lyu Investigator II, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Yuanchao Zhang Bioinformatics Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Chixiang Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland

Doctoral Students

Name Current Position
Jing He (2006-2011) Senior Manager, IMS Health
Cheng Jia (2012-2017) Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Instacart
Yu Hu (2013-2018) Postdoc researcher, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Xuran Wang (2014-2019)  (co-advised by Nancy Zhang and Dylan Small) Postdoc researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
Jiaxin Fan (2015-2020) Mathematical Statistician, FDA
Justin Lakkis (2017-2021) Quantitative Researcher, Citadel

MS Students

Name Current Position
Yan Che (2014-2016) Bioinformatics Analyst, Northwestern University
Michael Wierzbicki  Biostatistician Manager, The EMMES Corporation
Amy Yang (2012-2014) Senior Data Scientist, Opendoor
Jiajun Zhu Postdoc, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jenny Shen (2019-2021) PhD student in Biostatistics at Penn

Others

Name Role in the Lab
Current Position
Steffen Cornwell Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2019) Undergraduate student at Penn
Danielle Randall Undergraduate Research Assistant (2017-2019) Undergraduate student at Penn
Mane Williams Undergraduate Research Assistant (2017-2018)
PhD student in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard University
William Chen Undergraduate Research Assistant (2018)
Undergraduate student at Penn
Rachel Ballantyne
Postbac Research Assistant (2013-2014)
MD/PhD student in Computer Science, Duke University
Yuchao Jiang
Graduate Research Assistant (2016-2017)
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill
Rui Hong Graduate Research Assistant (2016-2017) PhD student in Bioinformatics, Boston University
Liming Qu
Biostatistician (2008-2015)
Senior Data Analyst at Penn
Gang Hu Visiting Associate Professor (2017-2018) Professor of Statistics, Nankai University School of Statistics and Data Science
Kui Wang Visiting Associate Professor (2018-2019) Associate Professor of Information Theory and Data Science, Nankai University
Qunhua Li Visiting Associate Professor (2019-2020) Associate Professor of Statistics, Penn State University
Xiangjie Li Visiting PhD Student (2017-2018) Assistant Professor of Statistics, Nankai University School of Statistics and Data Science
Zhen Miao Visiting Undergraduate Student (2018-2019) PhD student in Genomics and Computational Biology at Penn
Jonathan Toung Rotation student (2010 Spring) Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, GRAIL Inc.
Joseph Glessner Rotation student (2010 Fall) Technical Director of Core Facility, CHOP
Rong Ma Rotation student (2016 Fall) PhD student in Biostatistics
Lu Huang Rotation student (2016 Fall) PhD student in Biostatistics
Carolyn Lou Rotation student (2017 Fall) PhD student in Biostatistics
Fengling Hu Rotation student (2019 Fall) MD/PhD student in Biostatistics
Jessie Tong Rotation student (2019 Fall) PhD student in Biostatistics
David Wang Rotation student (2019 Spring) PhD student in Genomics and Computational Biology
Jacob Leiby Rotation student (2020 Spring) PhD student in Genomics and Computational Biology
Benjamin Rogers-Boehme Undergraduate Research Assistant (2020 Summer) Undergraduate student at Haverford University
Yuntian Fu Rotation student (2020 Fall) PhD student in Genomics and Computational Biology
Zhecheng Jin Rotation student (2021 Spring) PhD student in Biology
Jingxuan Bao Rotation student (2021 Summer) PhD student in Genomics and Computational Biology