Li Lab:People

PI:Wei Li, PhD

Associate Professor (tenured): 09/2011 - present Assistant Professor (tenure track): 11/2017 - 09/2011 Division of Biostatistics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology , Baylor College of Medicine. Inter-institutional Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics

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

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

• Kaifu Chen, PhD

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

• Deqiang Sun, PhD

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

• Hao Zhao, PhD

Ph.D. in Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

• 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