Jian Ma

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

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; 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: 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

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

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

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

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

Katelyn Chu

MS student, Machine Learning, CMU
BS, Computer Science, California Institute of Technology (2024)

Ajinkya Deshpande

MS student, Machine Learning, CMU
BS, Computer Science, BITS Pilani, India (2021)

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)