Jian Ma

Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology (09/2021-Present; previously Full Professor, 07/2021-08/2021; Associate Professor, 01/2016-06/2021) and Affiliated Faculty in Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Previously Associate Professor with tenure (08/2015-12/2015) and Assistant Professor (08/2009-07/2015), Bioengineering; Faculty Member, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Faculty Member, Biophysics and Computational Biology; and Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postdoc, 01/2007-07/2009, UC Santa Cruz (with David Haussler)
Ph.D. (12/2006) in Computer Science, Penn State University (with Webb Miller)
M.S. (2003) and B.S. (2000) in Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Selected Honors: ACM Fellow (2025); Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (2025); ISCB Fellow (2025); AAAS Fellow (2022); Guggenheim Fellowship (2020); NSF CAREER (2011)

Yang Zhang

Project Manager of the NIH 4DN UM1 Center Project
PhD in BioE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2017)
Yee Memorial Fund Fellowship (2014)
CZI napari Ecosystem Grant (2022)
Interests: 3D epigenomics, comparative genomics

Spencer Krieger

Lane Fellow
PhD in Computer Science, University of Arizona (2022)
BS in Biochemistry, Brigham Young University (2016)
Interests: AI/ML for cells and tissues

Shaoheng Liang

Lane Fellow
PhD in Computer Science, Rice University (2022)
BS in EE, Tsinghua University (2017)
Interests: AI/ML for cells and tissues

Remy Liu

PhD in Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State (2024)
BS in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State (2018)
Interests: AI/ML for single-cell epigenomics

Shuming Liu

PhD in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2024)
BS in Chemistry, Peking University (2019)
Interests: AI/ML for molecular structures

Yasamin Tabatabaee

Lane Fellow (starting 01/2026)
PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2025)
BS in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2021)

Junjie Tang

PhD in Statistics, Peking University (2023)
BS in Statistics, South China Normal University (2018)
Interests: AI/ML for cells and tissues

Shahul Alam

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020)
CPCB NIH T32 Trainee (2023-2024)
Interests: AI/ML for cells and tissues

Wenduo Cheng

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2024)
BS, Genomics, Duke Kunshan University (2022)
Interests: LLMs for genomics

Xue Er Ding

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, McGill University (2023)
Interests: AI/ML for single-cell data

Ellie Haber

PhD student, MLD/SCS, CMU
BS in Computer Science, New York University (2022)
Interests: LLMs for single-cell data

Nicholas Ho

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS in Math & CS, Arizona State University (2023)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2024-2027)
Joint with Eric Xing
Interests: LLMs for genomics

Xinyue Lu

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2023)
BS, Zhiyuan Honor Program, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021)
Interests: 3D epigenomics and gene regulation

Shuaike Shen

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
BS, Computer Science, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University (2025)
Interests: LLMs for genomes and cells

Evan Trop

PhD student, MLD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2022)
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia (2017)
Interests: LLMs for genomics

Shike Wang

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS in Computer Science, ShanghaiTech (2023)
BS in Computer Science, East China U of Sci & Tech (2020)
Interests: complex biomolecular interactome

Yangyuan Zhang

PhD student, CBD/SCS, CMU
MS, CBD/SCS, CMU (2025)
BS, Automation, Tsinghua University (2022)
Interests: AI/ML for cells and tissues

Mingqian Ma

MS student, Machine Learning, CMU
BS, Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong / Michigan (2025)

Jeff Winchell

MS student, Computational Biology, CMU
BS, Computer Science, Drexel University (2021)