Computational Comparative Genomics Lab

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Jian Ma

08/2009-present, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering; Faculty Member, Institute for Genomic Biology (core member of Cellular Decision Making in Cancer and affiliate of Genomics of Neural & Behavioral Plasticity); Faculty Member, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology; Affiliate Faculty of Computer Science; Affiliate of Parallel Computing Institute and Computational Science and Engineering.
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, IGB
BS, UC Berkeley (2004); PhD, Duke University (2010)
(joining in June 2012)

Graduate Students

Yang Li

PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, Peking University (2010); Exchange Student at the National Univ. of Singapore (2008)
Interests: novel methods for next-gen sequencing analysis, cancer genomics

Ryan Cunningham

PhD student, Computer Science
BS, University of Cincinnati; MS, University of Central Florida
Interests: human genomic variation

Yiyi Liu

PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, Tsinghua University (2011)
Interests: cancer genomics

Jack Hou

PhD student, Bioengineering
BS, Iowa State University (2011)
Interests: genome evolution, human genomic variation

Pratik Lahiri

MS student, Bioengineering
BS, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (2010)
Interests: cancer genomics

Feifei He

Visiting PhD student from Peking University
BS, Xi'an Jiaotong University (2009)
Interests: human variantion


Undergraduate Students


Past Members