Zhi Lab Computational Genomics and Biomedical AI

People

Researchers in computational genomics, clinical AI, and imaging genetics.

The lab includes faculty, research scientists, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and master's students working across genome informatics and biomedical AI.

Principal Investigator

PI

Degui Zhi

Degui Zhi

Professor and Director of Bioinformatics

degui.zhi@yale.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Genome informatics, statistical genetics, machine learning, pangenomics, clinical foundation models, imaging genetics
  • Affiliations: Biomedical Informatics & Data Science; Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics; Human Genome Sciences; Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
  • Office: 101 College Street, Floor 10, New Haven, CT 06510
  • Links: Yale profile, Google Scholar
  • Software: HapSeq2, RaPID, Med-BERT

Research Staff

Research Scientists

Ardalan Naseri

Ardalan Naseri

Research Scientist

ardalan.naseri@uth.tmc.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Algorithm Design, Computational Biology, Population Genetics, Identity by Descent
Xingzhong Zhao

Xingzhong Zhao

Associate Research Scientist

  • Areas of Interest: Imaging genetics, bioinformatics
Ziqian Xie

Ziqian Xie

Research Scientist

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning

Researchers

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sheikh Muhammad-Saiful-Islam

Sheikh Muhammad-Saiful-Islam

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Areas of Interest: Imaging genetics, deep learning, representation learning, medical imaging

Students

PhD Students

Keith L Sanders

Keith L Sanders

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Translational bioinformatics, computational phenotyping, genomic data science
Ming Hsiu Wu

Ming Hsiu Wu

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Protein-ligand affinity prediction
Si Mi

Si Mi

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Single-cell sequence analysis, post-GWAS analysis, deep learning

Students

Master's Students

Mengmeng Wang

Mengmeng Wang

Master's Student, Yale University

Minoli Daigavane

Minoli Daigavane

Master's Student, Yale University

Nick Armstrong

Nick Armstrong

Master's Student, Yale University

Alumni

Past Members

Bijie Bie

Bijie Bie

Postdoc

bbie@uab.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Communication studies, data science for social media
Bingsong Zeng

Bingsong Zeng

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning, representation learning
Evan M Yu

Evan M Yu

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning, large language models
Guodong Wu

Guodong Wu

PhD student

gwu@lrri.org

  • Areas of Interest: Statistical Genetics, Penalized Regression
  • Year: 2009-2014
Jing Zhang

Jing Zhang

Graduate Student Researcher

  • Areas of Interest: big data visualization
Khush Patel

Khush Patel

MS student

Khush.A.Patel@uth.tmc.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning, Medical Imaging, Predictive modeling, Natural language processing
  • CV
Merlyn Joseph

Merlyn Joseph

PhD Student / CPRIT Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning with EHR data, causal inference
Mia Tran

Mia Tran

Masters' student

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning model for EHR continuous variables
Pablo Napan Molina

Pablo Napan Molina

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Multimodal deep learning
Ryan Lewis

Ryan Lewis

Graduate Student Researcher

  • Areas of Interest: Population Genetics Informatics
  • Current position:
Samad Jahandideh

Samad Jahandideh

Postdoc

  • Areas of Interest: Structural Bioinformatics, Machine Learning
  • Links:Google scholar
  • CV
Sepideh Sepahi

Sepideh Sepahi

MS Student

  • Areas of Interest: Clinical data science
Swati Goyal

Swati Goyal

Graduate Research Assistant

Swati.Goyal@uth.tmc.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Analyzing twitter data related to infectious diseases.
  • CV
Swikriti Subedi

Swikriti Subedi

MS Student

  • Areas of Interest: Predictive modeling with EHR data, deep learning for clinical decision support, medical AI
Tian Xia

Tian Xia

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Areas of Interest: Multimodal deep learning, imaging genetics
  • Now: Industry
Xiangyi Liu

Xiangyi Liu

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning, biostatistical modeling
Xueyan (Snow) Zhao

Xueyan (Snow) Zhao

Postdoc

zhaoxy@uab.edu

  • Areas of Interest: Statistical Genetics, PheWAS
  • CV
Yan Chu

Yan Chu

PhD Student

  • Now: Biostat Manager, Amgen
Yida Wang

Yida Wang

PhD Student

  • Areas of Interest: Deep learning based causal inference