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Li Shu (Ph.D. Neurology – Central South University, China)
Postdoctoral Associate (2024 Feb - )
Awards:
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024 - 2025)
Research: Brain disorders, Machine learning, Predictive models
Dinghao Wang (Ph.D. Statistics – University of Calgary, Canada)
Postdoctoral Associate (2026 Jun - )
Awards:
VPR Postdoctoral Excellence Award (2026 - 2028)
Research: Machine learning, Statistical genetics
David Enoma (M.Sc. Biochemistry, Covenant University, Nigeria)
Ph.D. Student (Bioinformatics; 2022 Sep - )
Awards:
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (2026)
ACHRI Graduate Scholarship (2025 - 2027)
Mitacs Business Strategy Internship (2024 - 2025)
UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform Researcher Credits (2024 - 2026)
Mathison Grad Recruitment Scholarship in Mental Health (2023 - 2025)
Research: Representation Learning, Precision Medicine, Brain Disorders & Cancers
Ariel G. Kemogne K. (M.Sc. Machine Intelligence, African Masters of Machine Intelligence - AIMS, Ghana)
Ph.D. Student (Biostatistics; 2022 Sep - )
Awards:
Student Research Presentation Award (Honourable Mention), Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (2026)
GAT Excellence Award (2025)
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (2024 - 2026)
Indigenous and Black Momentum Scholarship in Science (2023-2024)
Research: Machine Learning, Representation Learning, Statistical Genetics
Caifeng Li (M.Sc. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Beijing Forestry University, China)
PhD Student (Statistics; 2023 Sep - ; Family leave: 2025 Oct - 2026 Feb)
Awards:
Killam Doctoral Scholarship (2026 - 2028)
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (2024 - 2027)
Cumming School of Medicine Graduate Scholarship (2024 - 2028)
Math/Stats Graduate Program nominee for the Killam Award (2024)
Research: Statistical Genetics, Computational biology, Machine Learning
Janith Weeraman (B.Sc. Bioinformatics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Ph.D. Student (Bioinformatics; 2023 Sep - ; Started as an M.Sc.; transferred to Ph.D. in 2025 Dec.)
Awards:
Best Poster Award, BioNet Conference (2025)
Cumming School of Medicine Graduate Scholarship (2024 - 2028)
Research: Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Higher-order Relationship in Biological Systems
Sasha Chernenkoff (B.Sc. Chemistry - University of Pittsburgh, USA)
M.Sc. Student (Bioinformatics; 2023 Sep - ; Family leave: 2025 Jan - Dec)
Awards:
ACHRI Graduate Scholarship (2026 - 2028)
Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master's (2024- 2025)
Research: Variant Interpretation, Predictive Models, Machine Learning
Janina Bazhan (M.Sc. Mathematics, Univerisity of Calgary, Canada)
Visiting Research Associate (2023 Apr - )
Research: Nonlinear optimization methods, Assessment of predictive models, Operations research, Biostatistics
Susana Escobedo
Administrative Assistant
Previous Members
Previous Members
Please see the list of previous members and their position upon graduation in the Alumni page.
Group pictures
Group pictures
Group picture in a dinner celebration (May 2026). From left to right: Sasha, David, Quan, Janina, Caifeng, Anne, Janith, Ariel
Group picture in a new year celebration (Dec 2023). From left to right: Deshan, Caifeng, Sasha, David, Quan, Janina, Karen, Janith, Ariel
Group picture in a Zoom meeting (Aug 2021). From left to right: (C = collaborator)
Anne, Leah, Zeyi (C), Deshan, John (C), Jennifer
Hamid, Xiang, Chen, Tineke, Pathum, Drayden
Scott, Quan, Christian, Da
Group picture in our HPC server room (Oct 2019). From left to right: Todd, Chen, Michael, Quan, Matthew (collaborator), Raman, Leah, Pathum, Jennifer, Drayden, Anne, Deshan, and Zheng.
Group picture in Banff (Aug 2017). From left to right: Stefan (undergrad), Shannon (undergrad), Lauren, Michael, Chen, and Quan
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