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Jianhua Xing, Ph.D. | Professor | PI
University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Hillman Cancer Center, UPMC
3501 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: (412) 383-5743
Email: xing1 [at] pitt.edu
Yong Lu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Email: yol67 [at] pitt.edu

Amitava Giri, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
Email: amg600 [at] pitt.edu
Sophia Hu | Ph.D. student
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
CPCB Graduate Student
Email: soh29 [at] pitt.edu
Jiaqi Gan | Ph.D. Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics Graduate Student
Email: jig77 [at] pitt.edu
Ke Ni | Ph.D. Student
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
CPCB Graduate Student
Gaohan Yu | Ph.D. Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Physics Graduate Student
Email: gaohan.yu [at] pitt.edu
Zhiqian Zheng | Ph.D. Student
Department of Computational and Systems Biology
CPCB Graduate Student
Email: zhz187 [at] pitt.edu

Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

  • Yan Zhang, Ph.D. (2016 – 2022), Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
  • Jingyu Zhang, Ph.D. (2013-2018), postdoc at Mo Motamedi’s lab (Harvard Medical School)
  • Hang Zhang, Ph. D. (2010-2015)
  • Yan Fu, Ph.D. (2008-2012),  Senior Data Scientist, Amazon
  • Zhanghan Wu,Ph.D. (2007-2011) currently at Stridelearning
  • Xiaoshang Jian, M.S. currently at Johnson & Johnson
  • Yaxuan, Yang, M.S., currently PhD student at the ISB program, Pitt
  • Thomas Chuanhaogao Hyat

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Weikang Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Xiao-Jun Tian, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Arizona State University
  • Huijing Wang, Ph.D., Postdoc at CMU
  • Vlad Elgart, Ph.D.
  • Ping Wang, Ph.D. 
  • Debasish Mondal, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, IIT, Tirupati (India)
  • Yi-Jiun Chen, Ph.D.
  • Ya-Yun Cheng, Ph.D.

Undergraduates

  • Jackie Fiore
  • Madison Cristinziano
  • Sydney Anderson
  • Jens Sannerud, Former TECBio Trainee, currently graduate student at Cornell University
  • Erin Haus, Former TECBio Trainee
  • Yan Dai, Visting Undergraduate Researcher, Nanjing University

Others

  • Yuhao Chen, Ph.D., visiting Ph.D. student, currently Postdoc at Westlake University
  • Shiman Zhou, RA
  • Alok Apan Swatiputra, visiting scholar, currently MS at IIT
  • Juan Ma, Visiting scholar
  • David Taft, Former technician, currently MD student at Drexel University
  • Brittany Ross, Former technician
  • Jing Zhu, Former technician
  • Ben Mathier, former DisCoBio trainee
  • Jefferson Mei, former DisCoBio trainee