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, CPCB, started Jan 2024.

Jiwon Lee

PhD student, CPCB, started Jan 2024, co-advised with Prof. Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis.

Anatori Prieto

PhD student, Biological Sciences, started Feb 2024.

Boshen Yan

PhD student, CPCB, started Sep 2025.

Jeongho Chae

PhD student, CPCB, started Sep 2026.

Eric Chen

PhD student, Statistics & Data Science, started Sep 2026, co-advised with Prof. Kathryn Roeder.

Kate Zhang

MSCB Research Intern, started Feb 2026.

Ray Liu

Research Assistant, started Apr 2025.

Nicole Sorensen

Research Assistant, started Sep 2025.

Alumni

  • Mo Tiwari   2019-24, PhD from Stanford CS (2023, OpenAI)

  • Dongbo Sun   2023-25, MS from CMU MSCB (2025, PhD student, UCI)

  • Yuxin Lu   2023-25, MS from CMU MSAS (2025, PhD student, CMU CPCB)

  • David Sun   2023-25, MS from CMU (2025, TSMC)

  • Johnson Huang   2023-25, MS from CMU QBB (2025, Bioinformatician, UMass)

  • Grace Du   2023-25, MS from CMU MSCB (2025, Bioinformatics Associate, Zymo Research)

  • Tanush Paradeshi   Summer 2025, BS from CMU CS and Stats

  • Maxwell Soh   2023-25, BS from CMU CS and CompBio (2025, PhD student, Princeton)

Administrative Support

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