Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Wenyi Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Professor, Biostatistics
Adjunct Professor, Statistics, Rice University
Adjunct Professor, Statistics, Texas A&M University
Email: WWang7@MDAnderson.org
Phone: 713-792-5377
Fax: 713-563-4242
Current Lab Members
Jessica Lal
TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Dr. Scott Kopetz
Email: JCLal@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: colorectal cancer, cancer evolution, tumor immune microenvironment
Yu Ding
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: YDing4@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: tumor heterogeneity, subclonal reconstruction
Ankita Paul
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: APaul22@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: AI-driven sequential learning, high performance computing (HPC), mutation calling
Quang Tran
Senior Data Scientist
Email: QMTran@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: intra-tumor heterogeneity, clonal evolution, sensitive detection
Ruonan Li
Data Scientist
Email: RLi10@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: tumor microenvironment (TME), transcriptomic deconvolution methods, cancer risk prediction
Matthew Montierth
Sixth-Year Ph.D. Student
QCB program, Baylor College of Medicine
Email: Matthew.Montierth@bcm.edu
Research interests: miRNA deconvolution, cancer evolution, subclonal reconstruction, tumor heterogeneity
Yaoyi Dai
Sixth-Year Ph.D. Student
QCB program, Baylor College of Medicine
Email: Yaoyi.Dai@bcm.edu
Research interests: integrative deconvolution for bulk RNAseq and DNAseq, tumor microenvironment dynamics, triple-negative breast cancer
Hao Yan
Fifth-Year Ph.D. Student
Biostatistics, UT School of Public Health
Email: Hao.Yan@uth.tmc.edu
Research interests: spatial transcriptomics deconvolution, cancer risk prediction
Hanan Wees
Fullbright Scholar
Second-Year M.S. Student
Molecular Genetics and Genomics, MD Anderson School of Health Professions
Email: HWees@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: bulk RNA-seq deconvolution, single cell transcriptomics, colorectal cancer
Aaron Wu
Fourth-Year Undergraduate Student
Computer Science and Statistics, Rice University
Email: aw80@rice.edu
Visiting Physician Scientists/Ph.D. Students
Jennifer R. Wang
Assistant Professor, Head & Neck Surgery
Email: JRWang@MDAnderson.org
Liyang Xie
Research Intern
Third-Year Ph.D. Student
Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: LXie1@MDAnderson.org
Bernardo Flores Lopez
Fourth-Year Ph.D. student
Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: BernardoFL@UTexas.edu
Former Trainees
Jaeil Ahn
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Dr. Ying Yuan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Shaolong Cao
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Computational Biologist, Biogen
Anirban Chakraborty
Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics
Elissa B Dodd-Eaton
Data Coordinator
Yu Fan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Software Engineer, ExxonMobil
Shuai Guo
Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, Emory National Primate Research Center
Shuangxi Ji
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Eisai Co., Ltd.
Yujie (Jeffery) Jiang
Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University
Current Position: Senior Statistician, AbbVie
Jialu Li
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Current Position: Biostatistician, Novartis
Xiaoqian Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics
Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of California Riverside
Hoai Nam Nguyen
Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University
Current Position: Data Scientist, Trusting Social
Xuedong (Peter) Pan
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Dr. Valen Johnson
Current Position: Bioinformatics R&D Engineer, Shengjie Technology
Gang Peng
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Molecular and Medical Genetics, Indiana University
Seung Jun Shin
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Dr. Ying Yuan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Korea University
Carlos C Vera Recio
M.D./M.S. Student, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Current Position: Resident, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Haswanth Vundavilli
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Faculty Fellow, Indian Institutes of Technology Hyderabad
Zeya Wang
Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University; joint with Dr. Jeffrey Morris
Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Kentucky
Kaixian Yu
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Dr. Hongtu Zhu
Current Position: Research Scientist, DiDi Chuxing
Forming Visiting and Rotation Trainees
Oluwatoni Ajala
Intern College Student
Sara Algeri
Graduate Research Assistant (M.S.), Statistics, Texas A&M University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Hongjin An
Intern Masters Student, Statistics, Rice University
Joonha Chang
Visiting Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics, UTHealth
Jingxiao Chen
Graduate Research Assistant, Biostatistics, The University of Texas School of Public Health
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Regeneron
Simin Chen
Ph.D., Biostatistics, The University of Texas School of Public Health
Timothy Cheng
Summer Intern College Student, Statistics, Texas A&M University
Shu-Hsien Cho
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Tianyi Chu
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Meredith Clayton
Intern Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University
Yuanshan Duan
Ph.D. Student, Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Armina Fani
CPRIT/UPWARDS Summer Intern College Student, Computer Science, Georgia State University
Meredith Frank
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Carissa Fong
Summer Intern, Pre-Med Bioinformatics, Baylor University
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Molecular Biology, University of Utah
Fan Gao
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.), Statistics, Rice University
Yipeng Gao
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Nichollette Gonzalez
Intern College Student, University of Puerto Rico
Huiying Hu
Intern Masters Student, Statistics, Rice University
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics, The University of Texas School of Public Health
Licai Huang
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Ramiz Iqbal
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Wenwei (Vivia) Jiao
Ph.D., Statistics, North Carolina State University
Andrew Koval
Intern Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University
Tobie Lee
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Wenhao Li
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Huimin Lin
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.), Statistics, Rice University
Yupei Lin
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Naoko Little-Jackson
Partnership for Careers in Cancer Science and Medicine Research Intern/Ph.D. Student, Howard University
Rongjie Liu
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.), Statistics, Rice University
Alexander Martin
Hematology Oncology Fellow, Tufts Medical Center
Dori Rosenstrauch
Summer Intern College Student, Georgetown University
Katie Salmon
Intern College Student, Statistics, Rice University
Annabel Settle
Summer Intern Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Duke University
Xin Su
Intern College Student, Texas A&M University
Xinghua Tao
Research Intern
Ruoxuan Tian
Graduate Research Assistant (M.S.), Statistics, Rice University
Suraksha Vinod
Summer Intern (M.S.), Bioinformatics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics, Penn State University
Wanli Wang
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative and Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Xue Wu
Intern Masters Student, Statistics, Rice University
Yufan Wu
Rotation Ph.D. Student, Quantitative Sciences, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Peng Yang
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.), Statistics, Rice University
Yutong Yao
Summer Intern College Student, Notre Dame University
Shengbin Ye
Intern Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Rice University
Hanyi Zheng
Intern Masters Student, Biostatistics, Emory University