Visit the lab website for lab members, detailed information on our research and ongoing projects.

Current Members

  • Michelle K. Moon (Administrative Coordinator)

Senior Personnel

  • Emily Greenfest-Allen (Senior Research Investigator)
  • Wan-Ping Lee, Ph.D. (Research Assistant Professor)
  • Fanny Yuk Yee Leung, Ph.D. (Research Assistant Professor)
  • Pavel Kuksa, Ph.D. (Research Assistant Professor)
  • Amanda Kuzma (Senior IT Project Manager)
  • Otto Valladares (Senior IT Project Leader)

Staff

  • Lauren Armus (Data Analyst)
  • Jeffrey Cifello (Data Analyst)
  • Lucas Carter (Data Analyst)
  • Prabhakaran Gangadharan (Bioinformatician)
  • Heather Nicaretta (Data Analyst)
  • Heather White (Research Project Manager)
  • Flawless Robin (Social Media Specialist)
  • Pei-Chuan Ho (Research Associate)
  • Zivadin Katanic (Application Developer)
  • Peter Keskinen (Research Coordinator)
  • Maureen Kirsch (Research Project Manager)
  • Alexis Lerro (Research Project Manager)
  • Joseph Manuel (Data Analyst)
  • Liming Qu (Senior Data Analyst)
  • Youli Ren (Project Coordinator)
  • Naveensri Saravanan (Data Analyst)
  • Andrew Wilk (Data Analyst)
  • Yi Zhao (Data Analyst)

Trainees

  • Po-Liang Cheng, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, supervised by Wan-Ping Lee)
  • Kaylyn Clark (GCB Ph.D. candidate)
  • Hui Wang, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, supervised by Wan-Ping Lee)
  • Kevin Hu (Undergraduate Researcher, supervised by Fanny Leung)
  • Justina Lam (Undergraduate Researcher, supervised by Fanny Leung)

Past Members

  • Wei Fu, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, now Assistant Professor at University of Lousville)
  • Omkar Pathak (Application Developer)
  • Rachel Kolster, M.D., Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at Janssen Pharmaceuticals)
  • Le Hoang (Undergraduate Researcher)
  • Brittany Caramanna (Research Coordinator)
  • Chia-Lun Liu, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at Analysis Group Consulting)
  • Matei Ionita, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, now at Penn Immune Health)
  • Mounica Sreedhara (Bioinformatician)
  • Carlos Thomas (Research Coordinator, now at )
  • Chixiang Chen, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher / with Mingyao Li, now Assistant Professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine)
  • Elisabeth Mlynarski, Ph.D. (Senior Research Investigator, now at Janssen Research and Development)
  • Yi-Fan Chou (Bioinformatician, now at Illumina)
  • Lauren Kleidermacher (Undergraduate Researcher, will attend Oxford University)
  • Briana Vogel (Research Coordinator, now at MITRE)
  • Conor Klamann (Web Developer, now at University of Toronto)
  • Chien-Yueh Lee, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Researcher, will be an assistant professor in Taiwan)
  • Matthew Conery (GCB rotation)
  • Han-Jen Lin (Application Developer)
  • Ryan Martinez (undergraduate researcher)
  • Kai Teh Tzeng (Graduate research assistant / with Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University)
  • Jenea Adams (GCB rotation)
  • Alex Amlie-Wolf (GCB Ph.D. Ph.D., now at Arrakis therapeutics)
  • Abha Belorkar, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral researcher, will become a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, Temple University)
  • Rhea Bhatta, Ph.D. (Data Analyst)
  • Caiyi Zhong (Database Administrator)
  • Chi-Yun Wu (GCB rotation)
  • Micah Childress (Programmer Analyst)
  • Rebecca Cweibel (Research Coordinator, now a member of the Online Learning Initiative office at Penn)
  • Weixin Wang (Postdoc, now at Veritas Genetics)
  • Barry Slaff (PhD student, UPenn CIS)
  • Mitchell Tang (Undergraduate Researcher, now an Associate at Boston Consulting Group)
  • Mugdha Khaladkar (Data Analyst Sr., now a Computational Biologist at GSK)
  • Sven J. van der Lee (Visiting Scholar, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
  • Yih-Chii Hwang (GCB Ph.D., co-advised with Brian Gregory, winner of 2014 ASHG Epstein Trainee Award, now a bioinformatician at DNAnexus)
  • Tianyan Hu (Postdoc, now an Assistant Professor at Florida International University School of Public Health)
  • Dawn Alessandrine (Administrative Assistant)
  • Dan Laufer (Research Coordinator, now master student in UPenn CIT program)
  • Paul Ryvkin (GCB Ph.D., now at 10X Genomics)
  • Fan Li (GCB Ph.D., co-advised with Brian Gregory, winner of Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation, now a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles)
  • Alexey Nefedov (Postdoc; now a Senior Bioinformatician at Merck)
  • Kajia Cao (Postdoc; now a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
  • Mi Ryung Han (Research specialist; now an Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Chiao-Feng Lin (Postdoc/Data Analyst Sr.; Now a Senior Bioinformatician at Partners HealthCare)
  • Steve Hershman (Undergraduate researcher; Senior Bioinformatics Software Developer at LifeMap Solutions)
  • Rui Tong (Programmer Analyst; Now at Penn Memory Center)
  • Mitchell Tang (Undergraduate researcher, now at Boston Consulting Group)
  • Adrian Wu (Undergraduate visiting student, Tamkang University)
  • John Malamon (Data Analyst Sr.)
  • Fanglin Lu (Graduate researcher)
  • Sameer Soi (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Srujan Peddapaidi (Undergraduate researcher)
  • Shu-Kai Chang (Research associate; now at Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  • Aleah Fox (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Serena Dollive (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Xin Chen (Undergraduate researcher, graduated)
  • Rahul Venkateshwara (Undergraduate researcher)
  • Ainesh Ravi (Undergraduate researcher)
  • Salika Dunatunga (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Katie Siewert (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Ying Chen (GCB graduate student, rotation)
  • Jackie Meisel (GCB graduate rotation)
  • Daniel Hwang (Bioengineering graduate student)
  • Eun Ji Kim (Research assistant; now at PGFI sequencing center)
  • Varun Aggarwala (CIS rotation student; now GCB student)
  • Brian Cole (CAMB graduate rotation)
  • Avinash Maganty (Undergraduate researcher; now at Cornell medical school)
  • Yi Di Wu (Undergraduate researcher)