{"id":18,"date":"2015-02-06T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:04:06","slug":"group-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Group Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Jianhua Xing, Ph.D. | Professor | PI<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-723\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC01108-scaled-1-75x50.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td><strong>University of Pittsburgh<\/strong><br><strong>School of Medicine<\/strong><br>Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>Department of Physics and Astronomy<br>Hillman Cancer Center, UPMC<br>3501 Fifth Avenue<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15260<br>Phone: (412) 383-5743<br>Email: xing1 [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Yong Lu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"161\" class=\"wp-image-414\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552.jpg 1215w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552-951x1024.jpg 951w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/PXL_20211031_153557394.PORTRAIT_2-e1641266678552-139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td><span class=\"style3\">Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>Email: yol67 [at] pitt.edu<\/span><br><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Amitava Giri, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"wp-image-595\" style=\"width: 128px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Amitava-Giri-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Amitava-Giri-2-1.jpg 128w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Amitava-Giri-2-1-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/td><td><span class=\"style3\">Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>Email: amg600 [at] pitt.edu<\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Luan Le, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"168\" class=\"wp-image-785\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Le-Luan-240312-004_RTr-1-e1775670060944.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Le-Luan-240312-004_RTr-1-e1775670060944.jpg 476w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Le-Luan-240312-004_RTr-1-e1775670060944-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td><span class=\"style3\">Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>Email: <\/span>LUL176 [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Sophia Hu | Ph.D. Student<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"160\" class=\"wp-image-399\" style=\"width: 128px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sophia-pic-128x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sophia-pic-128x160.jpg 128w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Sophia-pic-128x160-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/td><td>Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>CPCB Graduate Student<br>Email: soh29 [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Jiaqi Gan | Ph.D. Student<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"132\" class=\"wp-image-423\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gan-Jiaqi.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gan-Jiaqi.jpg 680w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gan-Jiaqi-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gan-Jiaqi-170x150.jpg 170w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gan-Jiaqi-150x132.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td>Department of Physics and Astronomy<br>Physics Graduate Student<br>Email: jig77 [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Gaohan Yu | Ph.D. Student<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-651\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3210-Large-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td>Department of Physics and Astronomy<br>Physics Graduate Student<br>Email: gaohan.yu [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Zhiqian Zheng | Ph.D. Student<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-719\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large.jpeg 825w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WechatIMG4127-Large-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/td><td>Department of Computational and Systems Biology<br>CPCB Graduate Student<br>Email: zhz187 [at] pitt.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Former Lab Members<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduate Students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yan Zhang, Ph.D. (2016 &#8211; 2022), Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jingyu Zhang, Ph.D. (2013-2018), postdoc at Mo Motamedi&#8217;s lab (Harvard Medical School)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hang Zhang, Ph. D. (2010-2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yan Fu, Ph.D. (2008-2012), &nbsp;Senior Data Scientist, Amazon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhanghan Wu, Ph.D. (2007-2011)&nbsp;currently at Stridelearning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xiaoshang Jian, M.S.&nbsp;currently at Johnson &amp; Johnson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yaxuan, Yang, M.S., currently PhD student at the ISB program, Pitt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thomas Chuanhaogao Hyat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ke Ni, Ph.D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Postdoctoral Researchers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.itp.cas.cn\/sourcedb\/people2020_30481\/faculty2020\/202205\/t20220525_392628.html\">Weikang Wang<\/a>, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search.asu.edu\/profile\/3194550\">Xiao-Jun Tian<\/a>, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Arizona State University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huijing Wang, Ph.D., Postdoc at CMU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vlad Elgart, Ph.D.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ping Wang, Ph.D.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Debasish Mondal, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, IIT, Tirupati (India)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yi-Jiun Chen, Ph.D.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ya-Yun Cheng, Ph.D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Undergraduates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jackie Fiore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Madison Cristinziano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sydney Anderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jens Sannerud, Former TECBio Trainee, currently graduate student at Cornell University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Erin Haus, Former TECBio Trainee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yan Dai, Visting Undergraduate Researcher, Nanjing University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Others<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yuhao Chen, Ph.D., visiting Ph.D. student, currently Postdoc at Westlake University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shiman Zhou, RA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alok Apan Swatiputra, visiting scholar, currently MS at IIT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Juan Ma, Visiting scholar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Taft, Former technician, currently MD student at Drexel University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brittany Ross, Former technician<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jing Zhu, Former technician<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ben Mathier, former DisCoBio trainee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jefferson Mei, former DisCoBio trainee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jianhua Xing, Ph.D. | Professor | PI University of PittsburghSchool of MedicineDepartment of Computational and Systems BiologyDepartment of Physics and AstronomyHillman Cancer Center, UPMC3501 Fifth AvenuePittsburgh, PA 15260Phone: (412) 383-5743Email: xing1 [at] pitt.edu Yong Lu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Computational and Systems BiologyEmail: yol67 [at] pitt.edu Amitava Giri, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Fellow Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":156,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/xing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}