Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Xi Hu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Research interests: Spatial transcriptomics data analysis, multi-omics data integration
Meher Niger
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Research interests: Spatial transcriptomics data analysis, 3D reconstruction
Co-advised with
Ph.D. Students
Yue Lyu
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
Research interests: Statistical modeling, single cell
Co-advised with
Chenxuan Zang
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
Research interests: Statistical modeling, spatial transcriptomics
Co-advised with
Li-Ting Ku
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
UT MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Research interests: Statistical modeling, spatial transcriptomics
Co-advised with
Lan Shui
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
UT MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Research interests: Statistical modeling, spatial transcriptomics
Co-advised with
Zhaoqing Yin
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
Research interests: Statistical modeling, spatial transcriptomics
Co-advised with
Zhenyang Zou
Ph.D. Student, Biostatistics
Research interests: 3D spatial transcriptomics, study design
Lab Alumni
Sunyi Chi (UT MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Rotation Ph.D. Student, Spring 2020)
Current position: Amazon
Yidan Huyan (UTHealth Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022)
Ruoxing Li (Ph.D., 2025)
Current position: Pharmapace, Inc.
Srijata Samanta (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022)
Current position: Bristol Myers Squibb
Yizhuo Wang (Ph.D., 2023)
Current position: Edwards LifeSciences
Peng Yang (Ph.D., 2025)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, UT MD Anderson