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A lab is a nurturing environment that aims to maximize the potential of students as scientists and as human beings. -- Uri Alon

PI:Wei Li, PhD


Associate Professor (tenured): 09/2011 - present
Assistant Professor (tenure track): 11/2007 - 09/2011
Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 06/2004 - 10/2007
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Bioinformatics Group Leader: 01/2000 - 05/2004
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics: 09/1998 - 09/2003
Institute of Biophysics
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


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Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Yuanxin Xi, PhD

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, University of California, Davis


  • Liguo Wang, PhD

Ph.D. in Genomics & Bioinformatics, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Ph.D. in Genomics & Bioinformatics, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China



Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas


  • Hyojin Kang, PhD (joint with Prof. Huda Zoghbi)

Ph.D., Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea


  • Xia Zheng, PhD

Ph.D. in Control Theory and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China


Graduate Students

  • Kadir Caner Akdemir (co-mentored with Dr. Michelle Barton)

Ph.D. student, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey


  • Zeynep H Coban (co-mentored with Dr. Michelle Barton)

Ph.D. student, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
A.M in Biostatistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA
B.S. in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey


  • Shengqin Wang (visiting PhD student)

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China


  • Junsheng Chen (visiting student)


  • Yuan Yuan (rotation student)


System Admin (High Performance Computing)

  • Michael D. Dehart

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Houston Clear Lake


Lab Alumni

  • Hao Zhao, PhD

Ph.D. in Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong Postdoc Fellow: 07/2010 - 10/2011 Current Position: Senior Statistical Analyst at MD Anderson Cancer Center