Degui Zhi
Professor and Director of Bioinformatics
- Areas of Interest: Genome informatics, statistical genetics, machine learning, pangenomics, clinical foundation models, imaging genetics
- Links: Google Scholar
- Software: HapSeq2, RaPID, Med-BERT
People
Researchers in computational genomics, clinical AI, and imaging genetics.
The lab includes faculty, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and master's students working across genome informatics and biomedical AI.
Principal Investigator
PI
Faculty
Assistant Professors
Laila Rasmy Gindy Bekhet
Assistant Professor
Ziqian Xie
Assistant Professor
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning
Researchers
Postdoctoral Researchers
Chenyuan Li
Incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Areas of Interest: Foundation models, dental informatics, LLM, NLP
Sheikh Muhammad-Saiful-Islam
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Areas of Interest: Imaging genetics, deep learning, representation learning, medical imaging
Tian Xia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Areas of Interest: Multimodal deep learning, imaging genetics
Xingzhong Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Areas of Interest: Imaging genetics, bioinformatics
Students
PhD Students
Bingsong Zeng
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning, representation learning
Evan M Yu
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning, large language models
Keith L Sanders
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Translational bioinformatics, computational phenotyping, genomic data science
Merlyn Joseph
PhD Student / CPRIT Postdoctoral Fellow
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning with EHR data, causal inference
Ming Hsiu Wu
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Protein-ligand affinity prediction
Pablo Napan Molina
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Multimodal deep learning
Si Mi
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Single-cell sequence analysis, post-GWAS analysis, deep learning
Xiangyi Liu
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning, biostatistical modeling
Yida Wang
PhD Student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning based causal inference
Students
Master's Students
Sepideh Sepahi
MS Student
- Areas of Interest: Clinical data science
Swikriti Subedi
MS Student
- Areas of Interest: Predictive modeling with EHR data, deep learning for clinical decision support, medical AI
Alumni
Past Members
Bijie Bie
Postdoc
- Areas of Interest: Communication studies, data science for social media
Ginny (Jie) Zhu
Ph.D student
Guodong Wu
PhD student
- Areas of Interest: Statistical Genetics, Penalized Regression
- Year: 2009-2014
Jing Zhang
Graduate Student Researcher
- Areas of Interest: big data visualization
Khush Patel
MS student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning, Medical Imaging, Predictive modeling, Natural language processing
- CV
Mia Tran
Masters' student
- Areas of Interest: Deep learning model for EHR continuous variables
Ryan Lewis
Graduate Student Researcher
- Areas of Interest: Population Genetics Informatics
- Current position:
Samad Jahandideh
Postdoc
- Areas of Interest: Structural Bioinformatics, Machine Learning
- Links:Google scholar
- CV
Swati Goyal
Graduate Research Assistant
- Areas of Interest: Analyzing twitter data related to infectious diseases.
- CV
