LAB MEMBERS

Sheng Zhong

Professor of Bioengineering

PI

Junchen Chen

Postdoc scholar

Neuroscience.

Yuan Liu

Postdoc scholar

Bioinformatics.

Shuanghong Xue

Postdoc scholar

Drug protein interaction.

Zhijie Qi

Postdoc scholar

Bioinformatics.

Qiuyang Wu

Postdoc scholar

Bioinformatics.

Ming Xu

Postdoc scholar

Chemical biology.

Tianyang Xu

Ph.D. student

Spatial omics.

Fatemeh Hadi

Postdoc scholar

Neuroscience.

Wenxin Zhao

Ph.D. student

RNA, chromatin.

  • Mufei Li, undergraduate reseracher
  • Taojin Peng, undergraduate reseracher
  • Zhixuan Song, undergraduate reseracher
  • Jong Hyun Jhee, M.D., Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Assistant Professor Yonsei University College of Medicine.
  • Alborz Amani, B.S., postgraduate researcher
  • Wenyu Zhang, M.S., Visiting scholar
  • Jessica Li, undergraduate researcher
  • Risa Cozza, undergraduate researcher. 2024 TRELS Research Fellowship.
  • Margaret Zhang, undergraduate researcher
  • Milo Jolis, PhD student, co-advised with Tatyana Sharpee
  • Mina Wu, PhD student, co-advised with Nathan Lewis
  • Peixiang He, PhD student, co-advised with Peter Yingxiao Wang
  • Lab photo

    Annual Bear Hug, 2022

    Christmas party, 2021

    Kara and Sherry's farewell, 2020

    In front of Rock Bear, 2017

    PREVIOUS LAB MEMBERS

  • Zhewen Fan, graduate research assistant, 2005-2006, now a Quantitative Scientist at PNC.
  • Guixian Lin, graduate research assistant, 2005-2006, Scientist at SAS.
  • Jun Cai, Postdoc, 2006-2008, Principal Investigator at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Received a 2012 NSFC grant as PI.
  • David Unger, PhD student, 2005-2008, Instructor and Undergraduate Program Advisor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
  • Jie Chou, undergraduate researcher, 2006-2008, Systems Engineer at OSIsoft.
  • Yanen Li, master student, 2007-2009, Applied Research Engineer at LinkedIn.
  • Xin He, graduate researcher, 2006-2009, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago.
  • Feng Hong, Ph.D. student, 2007-2009, Manager at AbbVie.
  • William T. Leinweber, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009, CEO, SongAlive. Winner of 2009 Cozad New Venture Competition. Winner of 2008 BioE Best Senior Design Project.
  • Kimberly Vlcek, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009, Program Manager, Microsoft.
  • Dacheng Xie, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009. Winner of 2008 BioE Best Senior Design Project. Patent attorney.
  • KyungSu Kim, master student, 2009-2010, PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Mingxun Wang, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2010, Assistant Professor at UC Riverside.
  • Palak Doshi, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2011. Senior Research Engineer at CareFushion. 50 for the Future Award from the Illinois Technology Foundation. Leader of Best Software Tool Team and Gold Medal at the iGEM Jamboree at MIT.
  • Graham Heimberg, undergraduate researcher, 2010-2011, PhD student at UCSF.
  • Dan Xie, Ph.D. student, 2006-2011, Professor, Huaxi Medical Center, Sichuan University. Awardee of Thousand Youth Talents Plan. Received a 2017 NSFC grant as PI.
  • Wei Huang, visiting graduate student, 2009-2012, Assistant Professor at Department of Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China. Received a 2014 NSFC grant as PI.
  • Meagan Musselman, undergraduate researcher, 2009-2012. Gold medalist in 2010 iGEM competition as the leader of UIUC experimental team. External vice president of the Society of Woman in Engineering. Engineering at PCC Structurals, Inc.
  • Chieh-Chun Chen, Ph.D. student, 2007-2012, Engineer at Amazon.
  • Xiaopeng Zhu, Postdoc scholar, 2010-2012, Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Jonatas Bortoli Cruz, graduate researcher, 2011-2012, receipent of SURGE fellowship and NSF IGERT fellowship, graduate student at University of Illinois.
  • Addison Dynek, undergraduate researcher, 2010-2012, Project Mananger at Belvedere Trading, LLC.
  • Christine Do, undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012, undergradaute student at University of Illinois.
  • Anna Sherman, undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012. Account director at Mondo.
  • Noah Boton, undergraduate researcher, 2011-2012.
  • Yang Zhang, graduate researcher, 2011-2012, Ph.D. student at University of Illinois.
  • Laura Sloofman, graduate researcher, 2010-2012, Bioinformatician at Mount Sinai Health System.
  • Darina Mcdee, undergraduate researcher 2010-2012, lab manager, Project Mananger2012-2013. PharmD candidate, University of Illinois Chicago.
  • Pengfei Yu, Ph.D. student, 2009-2014, Scientist at Genewiz.
  • Annie Bruckner, undergraduate researcher, 2013-2014, receiptient of CIRM fellowship. Assistant Lab Manager at Celgene.
  • Fernando Henrique Biase, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher, 2012-2015, now an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.
  • Yan Liang, undergraduate researcher, 2015, currently a PhD student at UCSD.
  • Xue Scarlett Zou, undergraduate researcher, 2013-2015, a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
  • Ya Gong, academic intern, 2015.
  • Tianyi Tiana Zhao, master student, 2015-2016, Clinical Research Associate at Quintiles.
  • Yongqing Zhang, graduate researcher, 2014-2016, Assistant Professor at Chengdu Univesrity of Information Technology. Received a 2017 NSFC grant as PI.
  • Yizhou Li, visiting scholar, 2014-2015, Assistant Professor at Sichuan University.
  • Sana Hussain, undergraduate researcher, 2014-2016, currently Ph.D. student in Department of Bioengineering, UC Riverside.
  • Kelly Huang, high school intern, 2016, currently an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley.
  • Marcelo Rivas-Astroza, Ph.D. student, 2010-2016, postdoc 2016-2017, Fulbright scholar and FONDECYT fellow, now an assistant professor at Metropolitan University of Technology (UTEM), Chile.
  • Tingcai Cheng, 2016-2017, Associate Professor at Southwest University, China.
  • Bharat Sridhar, Ph.D. student, 2010-2017, now a Scientist at Natera.
  • Tianqi Hu, academic intern, 2017, Software Engineer at Medallia.
  • Shu Xiao, Ph.D., Research Associate, 2008-2017, Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
  • Xiaoyu Zhu, Ph.D., Postdoc scholar, postdoc at University of Texas Health Science Center.
  • Alvin Zheng, 2016-2017, high-school student research intern, currently an undergraduate student at Harvey Mudd College. First authored a paper in JoVE and co-authored a paper in Genome Biology during his intern.
  • Zixu (Josh) Zhou, graduate researcher, 2016-2017, Scientist at Genemo Inc.
  • Qiuyang Wu, visiting graduate student, 2015-2017, Ph.D. candidate at Tongji University.
  • Alexandra Kasper, undergraduate researcher, 2016-2018, recepient of Gordon Engineering Leadership Award; president, BMES. Scientistic at Illumina.
  • Alison G. Fanton, undergraduate researcher, 2017-2018, recepient of UCSD Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Award. Research Associate at StemoniX.
  • Weixin Wu, postdoc scholar, 2017-2019, Scientist at Illumina.
  • Weizhong Chen, Postdoc scholar, 2017-2019, Postodc scholar at Cornell University.
  • Xiaoyi Cao, Ph.D. student, postdoc scholar, and project scientist, 2007-2019, Software Engineer at Google.
  • Jia Lu, Ph.D. student, 2013-2019.
  • Yiqun Jiang, undergraduate researcher, 2017-2019, 2019 Gruber Science Fellowship, now a Ph.D. student at Yale University.
  • Jingyao Chen, undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019, now a Ph.D. student at Boston University.
  • Yijun Wang, undergraduate researcher, 2018-2020, now a Ph.D. student at Harvard University.
  • Kathia Zaleta-Rivera, staff research associate, 2016-2020, now a LE STUDIUM / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow.
  • Norman Huang, Ph.D. student, 2014-2020, winner of 2019 Launch Factory Startup Compeition with a $300K award, now COO at OmniSync Inc.
  • Xuerui Huang, undergraduate and graduate researcher, 2018-2020, now a bioinformatician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
  • Kara Lynn Johnson, Ph.D. student, 2014-2020, now a scientist at Omniome.
  • Lucie Hebert, postdoc scholar, 2016-2020, now a scientist at Invivoscribe.
  • Shuyu Zhou, academic intern, 2019-2020, now a Ph.D. student at University of Cambridge.
  • Chieh-Ju Chen, graduate research assistant, 2018-2020, now a Ph.D. student at UCSD.
  • Xiaochen Fan, postdoc scholar, 2018-2020, now a postdoc at Stanford.
  • Zhangming Yan, postdoc scholar, 2016-2021, now a senior scientist at Novo Nordisk.
  • Tri C. Nguyen, Ph.D. student and postdoc scholar, 2010-2021, 2017 Siebel Scholar , now a postdoc at Stanford University.
  • Antonio Loaiza, STARTS scholar, 2021, undergraduate student at UCSD.
  • Andrew Nguyen, 2021-2022, undergraduate student at UCSD.
  • Ambuj Srivastava, postdoc scholar, 2021-2022. Now a postdoc at UCSD Department of Chemistry.
  • Yuqiu Wang (Rachel), undergraduate researcher, 2019-2022. Now a PhD student at USC.
  • Yueqing Qiao (Amanda), undergraduate researcher, 2019-2022. Now a research associate at Sanford Burnham Prebys.
  • Ningxin Kang, undergraduate researcher and M.S., 2018-2022. Now a research associate at UCSD.
  • Aitana M Castro Colabianchi, postdoc scholar, 2021-2022. Now a postdoc at UPenn.
  • Shahnawaz Baba, postdoc scholar, 2021-2022. Now a postdoc at UCSD.
  • Xueyi Wan, undergrad and MS student, 2018-2022. Now a PhD candidate at UCSD.
  • Yifan Sun, undergraduate researcher, 2020-2023, Now a graduate student at Stanford University.
  • Helen Yiran Song, undergraduate researcher, 2021-2023, Now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University.
  • Michael Chi Zhang, undergraduate researcher, 2020-2023, Now a Ph.D. student at Rice University.
  • Christopher Lu, undergraduate researcher, 2022-2023, Now a Research Associate at Lassen Therapeutics.
  • Gaoyuan Li, graudate researcher, 2022-2023, Now a Ph.D. student at UCSD.
  • Ekko Dimmin Zhu, M.S. student, 2022-2023, now a Research Associate at Active Motif.
  • Keya Trivedi, MS student, 2020-2022, Now a Research Associate at Novo Nordisk.
  • Jia Li, Postdoc scholar, 2023, Now a Postdoc Scholar at UCSD.
  • Riccardo Calandrelli, Bionformatician, 2015-2024, Now a Principal Bioinformatics Scientist at Athos Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Yang Liu, undergraduate researcher, 2023-2024, now a Ph.D. student at University of Chicago.
  • Pei Lin, postdoc researcher, 2022-2024, now a postdoc at UCSD.
  • Xingzhao Wen (Irene), Ph.D. student, 2019-2024, now a Vertext Fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.