Dr. Liu is an Assistant scientist and Project Manager of C³B. Some of his interests are computational biology, gene regulation, and machine learning.

Kailing Li, is a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics. He got his Computer Science Master's degree from SUNY - University at Albany. His research interest is applying machine learning techniques to biomedical data.

Shirzat Sulayman is a postdoc fellow in Dr. Wan's lab. His research interests mainly involve single-cell multi-omics, especially snRNA-seq and scATAC-seq. He focuses on combining available softwares with self-developed algorithm to create new tools and pipelines for single-cell sequencing data to investigate the aberration of gene regulation network in response to external stimuli in various disease models.

Shiyao is a PhD student in Bioinformatics. Her current interest is the application of machine learning to drug response prediction. She has an axolotl named Jadeite.

Sandali is a Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics. She completed her bachelor’s in computer engineering. Her research interest is applying computational approaches to omics data, especially to analyze gene regulatory networks and non-coding RNAs.

Dr. Elnaz Pashaei joined Dr. Wan's lab in November 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher. She received her Ph.D. in computer engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2017. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Istanbul Aydin University in Turkey between 2018 and 2022. Her research interests include machine learning, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Her research primarily focused on developing new gene selection and prediction methods based on Nature-inspired algorithms, improving swarm intelligence algorithms and applying them to various optimization problems, predicting key driver genes in disease-related subnets, and improving medical diagnosis reliability using enhanced AI algorithms.

Hello! My name is Li and I am a new PhD student in Professor Wan's lab. My research interests lie in cancer detection. I am excited to join a team that is at the forefront of genetic deciphering. I received my master's degree from IUB and have data processing skills. I look forward to growing with my fellow researchers and contributing to the lab's ongoing efforts.

Elham Pashaei is an Associate Professor in the Software Engineering Department at Istanbul Gelisim University. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, where her research focused on splice site prediction using machine learning. Her main research interests lie in bioinformatics, optimization algorithms, and gene selection, particularly in the context of cancer classification. With a solid foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and RNA sequence analysis, Elham aims to contribute to advancements in computational biology and enhance understanding of complex biological systems through innovative computational approaches.

Now Senior Life Science Scientist at High Performance Computing Department, Purdue University

Now faculty at Northeast Forestry University in China.

Now Bioinformatics Scientist at the Burning Rock Biotech.

Now undergraduate student at Cornell University.