Current members
Yufeng Shen

Principal investigator, Associate Professor

Na Zhu

Associate Research Scientist

Summer 2016 - present

Lu Qiao

Associate Research Scientist

Summer 2018 - present

Bulat Ziganshin

PhD student (Genetics)

Summer 2018 - present

Zicheng Wang

Postdoc

Spring 2019 - present

Jake Hagen

Bioinformatics analyst

Summer 2019 - present

Yige Zhao

PhD student (DSB)

Fall 2018, Summer 2019 - present

Guojie Zhong

PhD student (DSB)

Fall 2019, Summer 2020 - present

Preethi Prakash

Undergraduate student (Columbia)

Winter 2021 - present

Demi Zhuang

Undergraduate student (Washington University)

Summer 2022, Summer 2023 - present

Wenshan Gao

Postdoc

Fall 2022 - present

Wenxing Li

Postdoc

Spring 2023 - present

Sneha Sharma

MD student

Summer 2023 - present

high school students

Margaux Vasilescu

High School Student

Summer 2022 - present

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Lab Alumni

PhD and MD students

Boris Grinshpun

PhD student (Integrated, DSB)

Fall 2012 - Fall 2017

Hongjian Qi

PhD student (Applied Physics)

Fall 2013 - Fall 2018

Alexander Hsieh

PhD student (DBMI)

Summer 2015 - Winter 2019

Stefano Iantorno

MD student

Summer 2016 - Summer 2018

Alexander Kitaygorodsky

PhD student (DBMI)

Summer 2016 - Spring 2021

Siying Chen

PhD student (Integrated)

Fall 2015 - Dec 2020

Jaeyop Josh Lee

MD/PhD student

Summer 2017, Summer 2018

Chen Chen

PhD student (Biology)

Summer 2017 - Fall 2018

Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists

Yee Him Patrick Cheung

Postdoc

Fall 2011 - Spring 2013

Casey Overby

Postdoc

Fall 2011 - Spring 2013

Yaping Feng

Postdoc

Spring 2012 - Fall 2012

Badri Vardarajan

Postdoc

Summer 2012 - Summer 2014

Kyung In Kim

Postdoc

Spring 2014

Wenji Ma

Associate Research Scientist

Spring 2014 - Fall 2019

Qiang Huang

Postdoc

Fall 2014 - Spring 2016

Xinwei Han

Postdoc & Associate Research Scientist

Spring 2015 - Summer 2017

Xueya Zhou

Postdoc

Spring 2017 - Spring 2021

Haicang Zhang

Postdoc

Summer 2017 - Spring 2021

Xiao Fan

Associate Research Scientist

Summer 2018 - fall 2022

Somaye Hashemifar

Postdoc

Summer 2018 - Fall 2019

Renjie Tan

Postdoc

Summer 2019 - Spring 2023

Chang "April" Shu

Postdoc

Fall 2020 - Summer 2023

Anshuman Sewda

Associate Research Scientist

Fall 2021 - Summer 2023

Data Scientists

Daniel Backenroth

Bioinformatics analyst & Master student

Spring 2012 - Summer 2014

Angad Singh

bioinformatician

Spring 2012 to Spring 2013

Jiayao Wang

Bioinformatics Analyst and Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Fall 2016 - Summer 2018

Haoquan Zhao

Bioinformatics analyst

Fall 2017 - Spring 2021

Eve Byington

Bioinformatics analyst

Summer 2018 - Spring 2022

Joseph Obiajulu

Bioinformatics analyst

Fall 2020 - Summmer 2022

Rotation and visiting PhD students

Jamie Yang

Rotation MD/PhD student

Summer 2012

Jing He

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Sprng 2013

Brian Ji

Rotation MD/PhD student

Summer 2013

Andrew Chiang

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Fall 2013

Michelle Miron

Rotation PhD student (Immunology)

Spring 2015

Hong Zhang

visiting PhD student

Fall 2015 - Spring 2016

Elise Flynn

Rotation PhD student (DSB)

Fall 2016

Yiming Huang

Rotation PhD student (DSB)

Fall 2017

Jonathan Tiao

Rotation MD student

Summer 2019

Samuel Bruce

Rotation MD student

Summer 2019

Katie Brown

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Spring 2020

Alexander Xi Fu

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Fall 2020 - Jan 2021

Annie Choi

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Fall 2021

Vinay Swamy

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Fall 2021

Jean-Baptiste Reynier

Rotation PhD student (DBMI)

Spring 2022

Undergraduate, masters, and high school students

Edwin Lin

master student (Biotechnology)

Spring 2012 - Spring 2014

Yuankai Huo

master student (Computer Science)

Fall 2013 - Spring 2014

Aleksandar Obradovic

Undergraduate student

Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016

Xinyi Xu

master student (DBMI)

Fall 2014 - Spring 2015

Jonathan Packer

Undergraduate student

Fall 2014 - Spring 2015

David Streid

Undergraduate student

Spring 2016

Xinyi Li

master student (DBMI)

Fall 2016 - Spring 2017

Shuang Wu

master student (Biostatistics)

Spring 2017

Ben Lai

Undergraduate student

Summer 2017

Dana Wintner

Undergraduate student (Cornell)

Summer 2017

Emily Gao

Undergraduate student (Cornell)

Summer 2017

John Long

Undergraduate student

Spring 2017 - Summer 2017

Bonnie Wang

Undergraduate student

Summer 2018

Emily Jin

Master student (CS)

Fall 2018 - Spring 2021

Ani Khachatryan

master student (DBMI)

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Michelle Xu

Undergraduate student

Spring 2020 - present

Sidharth Bejugama

Undergraduate student (Princeton)

Summer 2020

Jenny Ye

High School Student

Summer 2021

Alan Tian

High School Student

Summer 2021 - summer 2023

Andrew Lee

High School Student

Summer 2021

Range Kuang

Undergraduate student

Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Adi Garg

High School Student

Summer 2022

Arthur Liang

Undergraduate student (MIT)

Summer 2022

Cindy Ruan

Undergraduate student (Barnard College)

Winter 2022 - present

Kashish Kumar

Undergraduate student (Columbia)

Summer 2023

Venkat Ramamoorthi

Undergraduate student (Columbia)

Summer 2023

Mia Grasso

High School Student

Summer 2022