Principal Investigator
Jian Ma
08/2009-present, Assistant Professor of
Bioengineering;
Faculty Member,
Institute for Genomic Biology
(
Cellular Decision Making in Cancer and
Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity);
Faculty Member,
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology;
Affiliate Faculty of
Computer Science;
Affiliate of
Parallel Computing Institute,
Computational Science and Engineering, and
UI Cancer Center
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
Postdoc
Ken Yokoyama
Postdoc, Institute for Genomic Biology
BS, UC Berkeley (2004); PhD, Duke University (2010)
Interests: gene regulation, comparative genomics
Graduate Students
Jon Cruz
PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011)
Interests: cancer genomics
Jack Hou
MD/PhD student, MSP/Bioengineering
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship
BS, Iowa State University (2011)
Interests: cancer genomics
Yang Li
PhD student, Bioengineering
[website]
BS, Peking University (2010)
Interests: cancer genomics, comparative genomics
Yiyi Liu
PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, Tsinghua University (2011)
Interests: comparative genomics, gene regulation
Brittany Weida
PhD student, Bioengineering
CMMB IGERT trainee (co-advised with
Ning Wang)
BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012)
Interests: gene regulation, cell mechanics
Yang Zhang
PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, University of Science and Technology of China (2011)
Interests: comparative genomics
Undergraduate Students
- Paul Bissonnette (CS, Class of 2013)
- Adam Davids (BioE, Class of 2015)
- Mike Hafeman (MechSE, Class of 2015)
Past Members
- Lanyu Lei (Statistics, MS student, Fall 2009; now at Harvard Clinical Research Institute)
- Guillermo Monroy (ECE, Undergrad, Spring 2010; now PhD student at UIUC)
- Chris Beitel (NCSA, Spring/Summer 2010; now PhD student at UC Davis)
- Jeremy Kemball (BioE, Undergrad, Summer 2010)
- Hongnan Liu (Visiting student from Tsinghua Univ, Summer 2011)
- Xiaolong Shen (Visiting student from Tsinghua Univ, Summer 2011; now PhD student at CMU)
- Yuhang Tang (Biophysics, Rotation student, Fall 2011; now PhD student at Brown)
- Yukun Zhang (Nutritional Science, Project student, Summer/Fall 2011)
- Jaebum Kim (Postdoc, 2010-2012; now Assistant Professor at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea)
- Peter Cote (BioE, Undergrad, 2009-2012; Graduated with Highest Honor; now MD student at Rush Medical College) [Featured on the CoE website]
- Neil Bhateja (BioE, Undergrad, 2011-2012)
- Feifei He (Visiting PhD student from Peking Univ, 2011-2012)
- Pratik Lahiri (BioE, MS student, 2011-2012)
- Ryan Cunningham (CS, PhD student, 2010-2013)
