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Chenxin Jiang

Chenxin Jiang

Email: [email protected] Chenxin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at UCLA. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on developing statistical methodologies for the analysis of high-throughput genomic data, with particular interest in single-cell and spatial omics data.

Yihui Cen

Yihui Cen

Email: [email protected] Google Scholar Yihui is a PhD student in Biomathematics mentored by Jessica Li. He obtained a dual undergraduate degree in Bioinformatics from Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh. His current research interests in bioinformatics include developing statistical methods that help connect genetic variation to cellular phenotypes at single‑cell resolution. Publications Wang, W., […]

Chengfeng Jiang

Chengfeng Jiang

Email: [email protected] Chengfeng is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at UCLA. He obtained his B.S. in Statistics at the University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interests include developing statistical methods and pipelines to assess the robustness of computational tools used in single-cell data analysis.

Zhiqian Zhai

Zhiqian Zhai

Email: [email protected] Zhiqian is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at UCLA. He obtained his B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interest includes developing computational methods for single-cell data. Publications: Wang, Q., Zhai, Z., Lian, Q., Song, D., and Li, J.J. (2023). Categorization and analysis of […]

Weijian Wang

Weijian Wang

Email: [email protected] Google Scholar Weijian is a Ph.D. student in bioinformatics co-mentored by Jessica Li and Grace Xiao. He obtained a dual undergraduate degree in Bioinformatics from Zhejiang University and the University of Edinburgh. Weijian is interested in developing advanced bioinformatics algorithms to generate valuable biological and clinical insights. Publications: Wang, W., Cen, Y., Lu, […]

Qingyang Wang

Qingyang Wang

Email: [email protected] Qingyang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at UCLA. She obtained her B.S. degrees in Statistics and Computer Science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is interested in developing statistical methods for high-dimensional single-cell data. Publications: Song, B., Liu, D., Dai, W., McMyn, N.F., Wang, Q., Yang, D., Krejci, A., […]

Chris Dong

Chris Dong

Email: [email protected] Google Scholar Chris is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics. He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and minor in Statistics at UCLA. His current research interests in Bioinformatics include statistical methodologies used in genetic association studies.

Mannix Burns

Mannix Burns

Email: [email protected] Google Scholar Mannix is a PhD student in the Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Program at UCLA where he is co-mentored by Jessica Li and Tom Rando. Before joining UCLA, he received his B.A. in Biology at Boston University and worked as a researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute. His interests include […]