Group

Students, Postdocs, and Visiting Scholars

  • Currently 8 Ph.D. candidates, 7 research associates, 1 undergraduate research student, and 2 high school students.
  • Graduated 31 Ph.D. students.
  • Graduated 14 MSc students.
  • Advised 65 undergraduate research students.
  • Supported 30 postdoctoral associates.
  • Supported 29 visiting scholars.

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Recent Group Alumni

  • Ben Jones, Postdoc at Yale (Ph.D. 2026).
  • Nicole Hayes, Postdoc at University of Michigan (Ph.D. 2025).
  • Faisal Suwayyid, Assistant Professor (tenure track), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Ph.D. 2025).
  • Zhe Su, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Auburn University (Research Associate 2023-2025).
  • Hongsong Feng, Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Research Associate 2021-2025).
  • Li Shen, NITMB Fellow, Northwestern University/University of Chicago (Ph.D. 2025).
  • Xiaoqi Wei, Postdoc at North Carolina State University (Ph.D. 2024).
  • Yuta Hozumi, Hale Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 2024).
  • Jian Liu, Assistant Professor, Chongqing University of Technology (visiting scholar 2022-2025).
  • Rui Wang, Assistant Professor (tenure track) at RIT (PhD 2022, Visiting assistant professor 2022-2023).
  • Yuchi Qiu, Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Illinois Chicago (Research Associate 2020-2023).
  • Azzam Alfarraj, Assistant Professor (tenure track), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (Ph.D. 2018-2023).
  • Jiahui Chen, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Arkansas (Visiting assistant professor 2019-2023).
  • Dong Chen (Ph.D. 2022, Visiting assistant professor, MSU 2022-).
  • Kaifu Gao, Senior machine learning scientist, Ensem Therapeutics (Research associate 2018-2022).
  • Timothy Szocinski, Data scientist at Auray (Ph.D. 2021).
  • Menglun Wang, The United States Food and Drug Administration (Ph.D. 2021).
  • Jian Jiang, Professor, Wuhan Textile University (Visiting Scholar, 2019-2024).
  • David Bramer, Instructor, Michigan State University (Ph.D., 2019).
  • Duc Nguyen, Associate Professor, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Visiting assistant professor, 2015-2018).
  • Zixuan Cang, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), North Carolina State University (Ph.D. 2018).
  • Kedi Wu, Principal Quantitative Analyst, Capital One Financial Corporation, Plano, Texas (Ph.D. 2018).
  • Yin Cao, R&D Analyst, Progressive Insurance, Cleveland, (Ph.D. 2017).
  • Zhixiong Zhao, Assistant Professor, Foshan University (Research Associate, 2014-2016).
  • Bao Wang, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), the University of Utah, (PhD 2016).
  • Kristopher Opron, Senior Bioinformatician and Computational Biologist, University of Michigan Health System (Ph.D. 2016).
  • Lin Mu, Associate Professor, University of Georgia, Athens (Visiting assistant professor, 2012-2015).
  • Kelin Xia, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University (Ph.D. 2012 and postdoc 2013-2016).
  • Jin Kyoung Park, Associate Professor, Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana (Ph.D. 2014).
  • Langhua Hu, Analyst (first job), Discovery Financial Services, Riverwoods, IL (Ph.D. 2013).
  • Zhan Chen, Professor, Georgia Southern University (Ph.D. 2011).
  • Duan Chen, Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Ph.D. 2010).
  • Siyang Yang, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), City University of Hong Kong (Declined due to family reasons) (Visiting assistant professor, 2010-2012).
  • Weihua Geng, Professor, South Methodist University (Ph.D. 2008).
  • Changjun Chen, Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Research Associate, 2008-2009).
  • Manfeng Hu, Professor, Jiangnan University (Visiting scholar, 2008-2009).
  • Yuhui Sun, Analyst (first job), Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN (Ph.D. 2007).
  • Sining Yu, Structured transaction analyst (first job), International Power America (Ph.D. 2007).
  • Yongcheng Zhou, Professor, Colorado State University (Ph.D. 2006).
  • Yibao Zhao, Senior Lecturer, Singapore Management University (Ph.D. 2004).
  • Shan Zhao, Professor, University of Alabama (Ph.D. 2003 and Research Associate 2003-2006).
  • Zujun Hou, Research Scientist, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (Ph.D. 2003).
  • Shuguang Guan, Professor, East China Normal University (Ph.D. 2002).
  • Meng Zhan, Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Research Associate, 2001-2002).
  • Zhenhai Shao, Professor, University of Electronic Science Technology of China (Research Associate, 2000-2001).
  • Baofeng Feng, Professor, University of Texas - Pan American (Research Associate, 2000-2001).
  • Prasad Patnaik, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Research Associate, 1999-2001).
  • Decheng Wan, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Research Associate, 1999-2001).