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PI:Wei Li (李蔚), PhD Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioinformatics:2019 - Department of Biological Chemistry School of Medicine University of California, Irvine Dan L Duncan Chair Professor:07/2018 - 2019 Professor (tenured): 08/2016 - present Associate Professor (tenured): 10/2011 - 07/2016 Assistant Professor (tenure track): 11/2007 - 09/2011 Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine. Postdoctoral Fellow: 06/2004 - 10/2007 Advisor: Prof. Xiaole Shirley Liu Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard School of Public Health, Boston Bioinformatics Group Leader: 01/2000 - 05/2004 Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Ph.D. in Bioinformatics: 09/1998 - 09/2003 Advisor: Prof. Runsheng Chen Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Instructors Postdoctoral Fellows Jie Lyu, PhD (01/2016) Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Lei Li, PhD (08/2016) PhD in Computational Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jiejun Shi, PhD (08/2016) PhD in Biology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Dapeng Hao, PhD Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, University of Macau Ya Cui, PhD (09/2018) PhD in Computational Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Yumei Li, PhD (09/2019) PhD in Molecular Medicine, Peking University Graduate Students Jianfeng Xu (02/2016) 3rd year graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology Fanglue Peng Graduate student, Molecular & Cellular Biology Co-mentored with Dr. Xi Chen Yipeng Gao (02/2018) 1st year Graduate Student, Quantitative & Computational Biosciences Lab Alumni Liguo Wang, PhD Postdoc Fellow: 06/2008 - 06/2012 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic Deqiang Sun, PhD Postdoc Fellow: 2010 - 2014 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Texas A&M IBT Kaifu Chen, PhD Postdoc Fellow: 2009-2013; instructor: 2013-2015 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine & Methodist Hospital Yuanxin Xi, PhD Postdoc/Instructor: 2008-2016 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at UT Health (declined); now at MD Anderson Zheng Xia, PhD 夏铮 (CPRIT Keck Fellow) Postdoc/Instructor: 2011-2016 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Hyun Jung Park, PhD (朴贤正) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rice University Postdoc: 2012-2017 Current Position: tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Jianzhong Su, PhD PhD in Computational Epigenetics and Biological Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Postdoc: 2014-2018 Current Position: Professor at Wenzhou Medical University http://sulab.info Xueqiu Lin (Tongji University) Xiaodong Cui, PhD PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio Postdoc: 2016-2018 Xin Feng, PhD Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University Postdoc: 2016-2018 Lab Alumni (co-mentored by Wei) Benjamin Rodriguez, PhD Postdoc Fellow (co-mentored with Peggy Goodell) Current Position: Fellow at NIH Kadir Caner Akdemir PhD student (co-mentored with Michelle Barton): 2011 - 2013 Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Zeynep H Coban (co-mentored with Michelle Barton) PhD student, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2011-2014 Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at Baylor Teresa T. Yiu, PhD instructor: 2014-2015 (NCI R25T fellow; co-mentored with Melissa Bondy) Current Position: Teacher in a private school