Our Team
Chao Cheng (Principal Investigator)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Institution of Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine
Chao Cheng received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Southern California in 2007. Prior to that, he received a M.S. in Molecular Genetics from Fudan University in 2002, and a M.S. in Statistics from the University of Southern California in 2006. He went on to do his postdoctoral work with Dr. Mark Gerstein at Yale University. From 2012 to 2018, he worked as an assistant and later as associate professor at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has been working at Baylor College of Medicine since October 2018.
Lab Members
Xiang Wang
Ph.D student
Xiang is a Ph.D student of the QCB Program at BCM.
Yupei Lin
Ph.D student (with Dr. Amos)
Yupei is a Ph.D student of the QCB Program at BCM.
Chenyang Li (Skylar)
Ph.D student (with Dr. Zhang)
Chenyang is a Ph.D student in Cancer Biology and Quantitative Sciences at UT Health.
Thinh Nguyen
Research Assistant
Thinh working as a Research Assistant. He has been a member since 2020.
Venugopal R. Mekala
Postdoc Associate
Dr. Mekala obtained his Ph.D from the Asia University. He has been a member since January 2023.
Jian-Rong Li
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Li obtained his Ph.D from the Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Chung Hsing University. He has been a member since March 2020.
Baoyi Zhang
Ph.D Student (Rice)
Baoyi Zhang is a graduate student of Rice University. He has been a member since July 2019.
Wei Hong
Postdoctoral Associate
Wei Hong obtained his Ph.D from the Wuhan University. He has been a member since March 2020.
Emily Zhou
Undergraduate Student
Emily Zhou is an undergraduate student of Rice University.
Kevin Yao
Undergraduate Student
Kevin Yao is an undergraduate student of Texas A&M University.
Join Us
We're currently looking for Ph.D students, M.D. students, and undergraduates to join our lab.
Lab Alumni
- Chongming Jiang, (2019 - 2022) Postdoctoral associate, currently an Assistant Professor Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI).
- Everlien Schaafsma, (2017 - 2022) Ph.D student, currently a Bioinformatician at Watershed Informatics .
- Yanding Zhao, (2016 - 2020) Ph.D student, currently an Post-doc at Stanford University.
- Chloe Fugle, (2020) Summer reseaarch student, currently an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College.
- Anthony Tong, (2019 - 2020) Research associate, currently an Ph.D student at Texas A&M University.
- Huda Daudpota, (2019) Summer reseaarch student, currently an undergraduate student at University of Texas at Austin.
- Xiaoyan He, (2017 - 2018) Visiting scholar, currently an associate professor at the Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.
- Frederick Varn, (2014 - 2018) Ph.D student, currently an Assistant Professor at Jackson Lab of Genomics.
- Matthew Ung, (2013 - 2017) Ph.D student, currently an associate director at Immuneering Corporation.
- George Wang, (2014 - 2017) Undergraduate student, currently a consultant at McKinsey and Company.
- Alexandra Dalton, (2014 - 2017) Undergraduate student, currently a software engineer at Local Projects.
- Yue (Frank) Wang, (2015 - 2017) Visiting scholar, currently a postdoctoral associate in Michael Whitfield's lab at Dartmouth.
- Erik Andrews, (2013 - 2015) M.D. student, currently an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- Shaoke Lou, (2014 - 2015) Postdoctoral associate, currently a postdoctoral associate in Mark Gerstein's Lab at Yale University
- Yachen Sun, (2014) Undergraduate student, currently a software engineer at IXL Learning.
- Sari Khaleel, (2013) M.D. student, currently a urology resident at the University of Minnesota
- Mingzhu Zhu, (2012 - 2013) Postdoctoral associate, currently a bioinformatics researcher at the Chinese Academy of Medical Science.