Alumni
Christian Chan (M.Sc. Statistical Science – Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Ph.D. Student (Biostatistics; 2020 Jan - 2024 Jun)
Awards:
Student Research Presentation Award, Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (2023)
GAT Excellence Award (2023)
Research: Machine learning, Statistical genetics, Assessment of predictive models
Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary
Jiayi (Anne) Bian (M.Sc. Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA)
Ph.D. Student (Biostatistics; 2019 Sep - 2023 Nov)
Awards:
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarships for Data-Enabled Innovation (2020 - 2023)
Research: Statistical genetics, Machine learning, Brain disorders
Qing (Leah) Li (M.Eng. Biological Engineering, University of Technology of Compiègne, France)
Ph.D. Student (Bioinformatics; 2018 Sep - 2023 Sep; Family leaves: Mar 2019 – Jun 2019 and May 2021 – Aug 2021)
Awards:
BMB PhD Research Excellence Scholarship (2021)
Research: Statistical genetics, Multi-scale omics, Machine learning, Brain disorders, Cancers
Position after graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Jingni (Jennifer) He (M.D. Medicine, Central South University)
Ph.D. Student (Bioinformatics; 2018 Sep - 2023 Jun; Family leave: Sep 2021 – Dec 2021)
Awards:
MDBC nominee for the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (2024)
MDBC nominee for the Governor General's Gold Medal (2024)
BMB Gordon Dixon Award (2023)
BMB nominee for the University of Calgary J.B. Hyne Research Innovation Award (2023)
CSC Student Scholarship (2018-2022)
BMB Award for Excellence in Research (2021)
Research: Statistical genetics, Multi-scale omics, Machine learning, Brain disorders, Cancers
Position after graduation: (Postdoctoral) Research Officer, University of Melbourne
Hamid Hamidi (B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology)
M.Sc. Student (Mathematics; 2021 Jan - 2023 Apr)
Awards:
GAT Excellence Award (2021)
Research: Deep learning, Single-cell multi-scale omics
Position after graduation: Quantitative Researcher, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
Abhishek Kumar Shukla (Ph.D., Mathematics, University of British Columbia)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2021 Jul - 2022 Dec)
Awards
Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2023)
Research: Mathematical properties of deep machine learning models
Position after working with us: Quantitative Analyst, Numerixs Quant, Vancouver.
Pathum Kossinna (B.Sc., Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura)
M.Sc. Student (Bioinformatics; 2019 Sep - 2022 Sep)
Awards:
BMB MSc Research Excellence Scholarship (2021)
BMB Graduate Scholarship (2021)
Carol Braat Award (2022);
Research: Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistical Genetics
Position after graduation: Bioinformatics Analyst, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON
Drayden Kopp (B.Sc., Biology, Thompson Rivers University)
M.Sc. Student (Bioinformatics; 2019 Sep - 2021 Aug)
Awards:
BMB MSc Research Excellence Scholarship (2021)
Research: Computational genomics for brain development
Position after graduation: PharmD student, University of Alberta
Chen Cao (Ph.D., Computer Science, Jilin University)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017 Feb - 2021 Jun)
Awards:
Cumming School of Medicine Postdoctoral Scholarship (2018-2019);
ACHRI Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2019)
BMB Postdoctoral Research Award (2021)
Research: Cancer genomics, Haplotype inference, Statistical genetics, Multi-omics data analysis.
Position after working with us: Professor, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Raman Koul (Ph.D., Molecular Biology, New Mexico State University)
Visiting Research Associate (2018 Jun - 2021 May)
Research: Applying machine learning models to cardiovascular diseases data
Position after visit: Lab Director / R&D Head, CardiAI Inc., Calgary, AB
Zilong (Todd) Zhang (M.Sc. Biomechanics, University of Technology of Compiègne)
Research Associate (Health Informatics; 2019 Feb - 2021 Jan)
Research: Natural Language Processing, Electronic Health Record, Deep Learning
Position after working in U Calgary: Microsoft (Nuance Communications), Montreal, QC
Zheng Zeng (B.Sc. Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University)
Visiting Ph.D. Student (2019 Sep - 2020 Aug)
Awards:
CSC Student Scholarship (2019-2020)
Research: Applying bioinformatics to human epithelial ovarian carcinoma
Position after visit: PhD student, Harbin Medical University
Bowei Ding (B.Sc., Statistics, Hainan University )
M.Sc. Student (Statistics; 2018 Sep - 2020 Aug)
Awards:
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) (2021)
Eric Milner Graduate Scholarship (2021)
Henrietta Weyland Graduate Scholarship in Mathematics (2021)
Research: Power estimation of complicated statistical models in multi-scale omics analyese
Position after graduation: PhD student, University of Calgary
Michael (Minghao) Li (B.Sc., Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia)
M.Sc. Student (Bioinformatics; 2017 Sep - 2020 Mar)
Awards:
ACHRI Graduate Studentship (2018-2020),
BMB Graduate Scholarship (2019).
Research: Develop deep learning models to study within-host cell population epigenetics
Position after graduation: Biomedical Software Engineer, Sema4 (Mount Sinai Genomics Inc.), Stamford, Connecticut
Jason Lu (B.Sc., Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary)
M.Sc. Student (Statistics; 2017 Sep - 2019 Jul)
Awards:
Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship (2018-2019),
Research: High-dimensional feature selection for multi-scale 'omics data
Position after graduation: Biostatistician, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB
Lauren Mak (B.Sc., Biochem. and Mol. Biol., University of British Columbia)
M.Sc. Student (Bioinformatics; 2016 Sep - 2019 Jun)
Awards:
ACHRI Graduate Studentship (2017-2019),
Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship (2018-2019),
Carol Braat Award (2018);
Research: Haplotype-based analysis of HIV within-host evolution and between-host transmission
Position after graduation: PhD student, Cornell University, New York, NY