Hu:Members
Laboratory of Genomic Data Science and Epigenome Biology
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology
School of Medicine
West Virginia University
Principal Investigator
Gangqing (Michael) Hu, Ph.D
07/2019 - Present: Tenure Track Assistant Professor
07/2019 - Present: Director of the Bioinformatics Core
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology
School of Medicine
West Virginia University
07/2013-06/2019: Staff Scientist
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
07/2009-06/2013: Postdoctoral Associate
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
09/2004 - 08/2009: Ph.D. in BME
Peking University, Beijing, China
09/2000 - 07/2004: B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Peking University, Beijing, China
Post Doctoral Fellows
Lei (Leo) Wang
10/2021 ~ Present
Joined as a postdoc in Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at WVU. Leo obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Fudan University in 2014. Afterward, he has served Xinyang Normal University as a faculty and the Institute of Biophysics CAS as a guest fellow. He is interested in combining computational (dry) and experimental (wet) approaches to uncover transcriptional regulatory mechanisms on oncogenic processes, tumor microenvironment, and drug responses. In his free time, he enjoys music，reading, and walking.
Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed (Naved)
07/2025 ~ Present
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PhD Students
Halima Akhter
01/2021 ~ present
Joined as a PhD student in Computer Science at WVU in Spring 2021. Halima got her Bsc. in Computer Science from Stamford University Bangladesh (class of 2014). Afterwards, she has worked as a software engineer in several multinational companies, focusing on machine learning and human-computer interactions. She likes to work with BIG data, implement computational algorithms, and figure out innovative ways for data visualization. Besides, she enjoys reading books, listening to music, and writing blogs on computer programming.
Weijun Yi
08/2021 ~ present
Joined as a PH.D. student in Computer Science at WVU. Weijun got his bachelor’s in Information Management from Central China Normal University (class of 2000) and MBA from Wuhan University (class of 2007). Since Fall 2017, he has studied at the department of computer science. He has possessed the professional knowledge on computer science, especially in data mining with machine learning and deep learning techniques. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and travelling with families.
Medical Students
Lauren Keplinger (Class of 2028)
02/2025 ~ present
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Alexsandra Smith (Class of 2029)
09/2025 ~ present
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Undergraduate Students
Evelyn Shue (Class of 2027 at Duke; Pre-Med)
08/2021 ~ present
Evelyn joined the lab as a high schooler in 2021. She is a college junior majoring in Biology and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University on the pre-med track, and will be attending the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai after graduation under the Flexmed Early Assurance Program. She is interested in social determinants of health and AI's impact on the fields of science and medicine. In her free time, she likes filming documentaries, drawing/painting, and winter sports.
Angela Wu (Class of 2027 at UCSD; Data Science)
07/2025 ~ present
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Lab Alumni
Aniello Infante (Bioinformatician)
Olamide Adegbamigbe (undergraduate summer intern)
Muhammad Shahid (Postdoctoral Associate)
Nikki Cannon (undergraduate student worker; next stop NIH)
Sean Elliott (lab research assistant)
Jasleen Gandhi (master student; next stop NIH)
Drake Aesoph (master student)
Lev Invanov (undergraduate summer intern)
Rachel_Mangano (IMMB undergraduate internship; next stop Vanderbilt)
Emily Lecea (IMMB undergraduate internship; next stop Dartmouth)
Tulika Sharma (Postdoctoral Associate)
Jinge Wang (Postdoctoral Associate; next stop Polygon Health Analytics)
Sebastian Adam Dziadowicz (PhD student; next stop CSHL)
Li Ma(Postdoctoral Associate)
