Team

We are looking for several PhD students and research interns (see openings) !

Principal Investigator

Dr. Martin Jinye Zhang

Assistant Professor, Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  • (2019) Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • (2014) B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Current Team Members

Alistair Turcan

PhD student, started Jan 2024. Using genetics data for inferring causal and responsive relationships between cells, genes, and disease.

Anatori Prieto

PhD student, started Feb 2024. Leveraging omics data to better understand the biomolecular profile of heritable diseases.

Grace Du

MSCB student, started Sep 2023. Estimating the directional effects of SNP-pairs at the gene level using biobank-scale genetics data.

Johnson Huang

MS student, started Sep 2023. scRNA-seq data clustering.

David Sun

MS student, started Sep 2023.

Yuxin Lu

MSAS student, started Jan 2024. Causal relationship between genes and disease through analyzing GWAS, eQTL, and perturbation data.

Dongbo Sun

MSCB student, started Mar 2024. Using Deep learning and Large Language Models to explore expression levels of genes, and how it’s affected by variants on genes.

Maxwell Soh

Undergraduate student, started Jan 2024. Developing an improved causal inference method for scRNA-seq data.

Alumni

  • Mo Tiwari   2019-24, PhD from Stanford CS, currently at OpenAI,

Administrative Support

Erin Driskill is helping us (and other groups) with administration.