People

Rotation

PhD students

Current

Undergraduate students

Name Research topic Photo
Xingyi (Daniel) Chen Undergraduate student majoring in Applied Math and Statistics with a minor in computational medicine developing computational methods for spatial omics data.

MSE students

Name Research topic Photo
Harriet (Jiali) He MSE student in Biomedical Engineering analyzing spatial omics data.

ScM students

Name Research topic Photo
Guan Gui ScM student in Biostatistics developing deep learning algorithms for spatial omics data. Awarded the Kocherlakota award for best performance by a master’s student on the Biostatistics first-year comprehensive examination.
Shengyi Li ScM student in Biostatistics developing statistical models to remove biases with spatial omics data.


PhD students

Name Research topic Photo
Alyssa Columbus PhD candidate in Biostatistics and Vivien Thomas Scholar defining elements and principles for characterizing and evaluating data analyses. Jointly mentored with Brian Caffo. Fulbright US Scholar at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for 2025-2026.
Cindy Fang PhD candidate in Biostatistics developing computational methods for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data.
Sowmya Parthiban PhD candidate in Biostatistics developing computational methods and software for long-read RNA-sequencing.
Kinnary Shah PhD candidate in Biostatistics developing statistical inference tools for spatial transcriptomics data.
Jianing Yao PhD student in Biostatistics developing scalable clustering methods and software for spatial omics data.


Postdocs

Name Research topic Photo
Jacqueline R. Thompson Postdoc leading spatially-resolved transcriptomic projects to understand mental health disorders.
Michael Totty Postdoc leading single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and spatially-resolved transcriptomic projects to understand human psychiatric disorders. NIH/NIMH F32 awardee.


Alumni

Postdoc Alumni

PhD Alumni

  • Erik Nelson | 2024 | Next: Computational Biologist, Translational Omics at GSK
  • Albert Kuo | 2022 | Next: Data Scientist, Amazon

Masters Alumni

Rotation Alumni

  • Grace Brooks | 2025
  • Caleb Hallinan | 2024
  • Rafael dos Santos Peixoto | 2022
  • Chaichontat Sriworarat | 2022

Undergraduate Alumni

  • Yilin Chen | 2022
  • Cynthia Lo | 2022

Past Research Assistants

  • Michael Ontiveros
  • Kexin (Sheena) Wang
  • Ruoxi Liu
  • Alexandra Stephens
  • Hanchao (Ted) Zhang
  • Pei-Lun (Perry) Kuo

Former Friends of the Lab (FFOL)

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