Jian Ma

Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology (Professor 07/2021-08/2021; Associate Professor 01/2016-06/2021) and Affiliated Faculty of Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Associate Professor with tenure (08/2015-12/2015) and Assistant Professor (08/2009-07/2015), Bioengineering; Faculty Member, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Faculty Member, Biophysics and Computational Biology; Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoc, 01/2007-07/2009, UC Santa Cruz (with David Haussler)
Ph.D. (12/2006) in Computer Science, Penn State University (with Webb Miller)
M.S. (2003) and B.S. (2000) in Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yang Zhang

Project Manager of the NIH 4DN UM1 Center Project
PhD in BioE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017)
Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship (2014)
CZI napari Ecosystem Grant (2022)
Interests: 3D epigenomics, comparative genomics

Shaoheng Liang

Lane Fellow
PhD in Computer Science, Rice University (2022)
BS in EE, Tsinghua University (2017)
Interests: machine learning for spatial omics

Remy Liu

PhD in Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State (2024)
BS in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State (2018)
Interests: machine learning for single-cell epigenomics

Spencer Krieger

Lane Fellow
PhD in Computer Science, University of Arizona (2022)
BS in Biochemistry, Brigham Young University (2016)
Interests: spatial omics, gene regulation

Junjie Tang

PhD in Statistics, Peking University (2023)
BS in Statistics, South China Normal University (2018)
Interests: machine learning for spatial omics

Shahul Alam

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020)
CPCB NIH T32 Trainee (2023-2024)
Interests: machine learning for spatial omics

Wenduo Cheng

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2024)
BS, Genomics, Duke Kunshan University (2022)
Joint with Ameet Talwalkar
Interests: LLMs for genomics

Xue Er Ding

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, McGill University (2023)
Interests: machine learning for single-cell data

Ellie Haber

PhD student, MLD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, New York University (2022)
Interests: LLMs for single-cell data

Nicholas Ho

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Math & CS, Arizona State University (2023)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2024-2027)
Joint with Eric Xing
Interests: LLMs for genomics

Xinyue Lu

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2023)
BS, Zhiyuan Honor Program, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021)
Interests: 3D epigenomics and gene regulation

Shike Wang

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS in Computer Science, ShanghaiTech (2023)
BS in Computer Science, East China U of Sci & Tech (2020)
Interests: complex biomolecular interactome

Wendy Yang

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2019)
Interests: 3D epigenomics and gene regulation

Yun-Shuo Chou

MS student, Computational Biology, CMU
BS, Computer Science, Tsinghua University (2022)

Katelyn Chu

MS student, Machine Learning, CMU
BS, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology (2024)

Ajinkya Deshpande

MS student, Machine Learning, CMU
BS, Computer Science, BITS Pilani, India (2021)

Hongwei Tu

MS student, Computer Science, CMU
BS, Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiaotong University (2023)