Mengjie Chen, PhD

Principal Investigator 

​Associate Professor in
​Genetic Medicine, Human Genetics and Statistics

PhD, Yale University (2014)
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Ken Chen, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

BS in Chemistry
Beijing Normal University
PhD in Compute Science and Technology
Sun Yat-sen University

Haoye Yang

Rotation Student
Human Genetics

BS in Applied Mathematics
Sun Yat-sen University
MS in Statistics 
University of Washington

Peihong Zhang, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Computational Biology
Chinese Academy of Science

Linzhe Teng

Master student, Statistics

BS in Applied Mathematics
​UIUC

Zhiwei Jiang

Graduate student, Chemistry
with Prof Sebastian Pott

BS in Chemistry
Peking University

Charles Zhou

Graduate student, GGSB
with Prof Haky Im

BS in Biological Sciences
Zhejiang University​

Lei Zheng, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Zoology
Inner Mongolia University

Kakura & Naruto

 Ragdolls in residency
​with Prof Chao Gao 

Pawchelor in Groomolgy and Scratchry
Minor in Meowing
So Adorable Academy  

Yang Li

Graduate, PME
Joint with Prof Chuan He


BS in Biosciences
USTC

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Jianan Rui

Graduate student, Statistics


MS in Statistics
U Chicago
BS in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics
University of Warwick

    Alumni:

• Sam Baureis (Undergraduate student  in Statistics, U Chicago, summer student, June 2017 - Oct 2017)
• Kaiqian Zhang (Master student in Financial Mathematics, U Chicago, 2017 - 2019, now a graduate student at Princeton University)​​
• Tae Kim (PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2017 - 2020, now at Microsoft)
• Qi Zhan (Summer Intern from St. Johns College and then a pre-doctoral Researcher, 2019 - 2020, now a PhD student at Mercedes Pascual lab at U Chicago)
• Shuwen Fang (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, summer student, June 2020 - Sep 2020)
• Allison Rodas (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, summer student, June 2020 - Sep 2020)
• Zijie Zhang (PhD student in GGSB, 2017 - 2020, now a Professor at Yunnan University in China)
• Arpit Panda (Rotation student,  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020,  MSTP program, ​U Chicago, now a PhD student at Chuan He lab at U Chicago)
• Jovian Yu (Fellow Physician in Hematology, PhD student in GGSB, 2020 - 2021, now a medical director at AbbVie)
• Saideep Gona (Rotation student,  Jan 2022 - Mar 2022, GGSB, now a PhD student at Haky Im lab at U Chicago)
• Yifan Zhou (PhD student in Biophysics, U Chicago, 2017-2022, now at GRAIL)
• Yuguan Wang (Master and PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2019-2022)
• Nick Feng (Master student in Biomedical informatics, U Chicago, 2022)
• Yiwei Ding (Rotation student,  2022, Chemistry, U Chicago)
• Carisa Zeng (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, 2022-2023, now an RA at WUSTL)
• Alvin Zhang (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, 2022-2023, now a PhD student at Princeton University) 
• Xiaoyang Dou (Postdoc, 2019-2024, now a PI at  Chinese Academy of Science Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science)
• Shun Liu (Postdoc, 2018-2024, now a PI at Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hospital)
• Yong Peng (Postdoc, 2020-2024)
• Chih-Hsuan Wu (PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2019-2024, now a biostatistician at St Jude children's research hospital)
• Gu Wang (Visiting Student, NUS, Sep - Dec 2024)

More info about current lab members can be found here. 

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