People
Current members
Zechen Chong, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
zchong at uab[dot]edu
After finishing undergraduate study in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology, Zechen entered Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Postgraduate Candidate Exempt from Admission Exam in 2007 under the supervision of Dr. Chung-I Wu. In 2013, he earned a Ph.D. degree in Genomics. After graduation, he worked with Dr. Ken Chen at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow for 3 years. In 2017, he joined UAB Informatics Institute as a tenure-track faculty.
Maggi (Yu) Chen
Ph. D. Student (2018.03 ~ now)
maggic at uab[dot]edu
Maggi is a current UAB graduate student in Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme. She graduated from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) at the School of the Gifted Young with a Bachelor's degree. During 2016, she was a visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is currently developing algorithms for detecting structural variants from third generation sequencing data.
Fengyuan Huang
Ph. D. Student
huangf at uab[dot]edu
Fengyuan is a current graduate student in Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme. After graduating from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine with a Master Degree of Basic Science, she worked as a research scholar at Nutrition Science Department at UAB. She is interested in cancer genomics and bioinformatics.
Yiqing Wang
Ph. D. Student
yiqing19 at uab[dot]edu
Yiqing is a current graduate student in Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme. After graduating from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University with a Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics, he studied in the Computer Science department at UAB. He is interested in bioinformatics methods and applications of new sequencing data.
Ethan Vallely
Undergraduate Student
ejv at uab[dot]edu
Ethan is working on bacteria genome de novo assembly.
Stephanie Cook
Undergraduate Student
secook2 at uab[dot]edu
Stephanie is working on third generation sequencing data analysis and software development.
Meghan Moody
Undergraduate Student
mmeghan at uab[dot]edu
Meghan is working on third generation sequencing data analysis and software development.
Alumni
Shaurita Hutchins, GGB rotation student, 2021.01-2021.03
Santhosh Kumar Karthikeyan, GBS rotation student, 2021.01-2021.03
Colton Miller, Master Intern Student, 2020. 02-2020.07
Peng Xu, Postdoc fellow, 2017.09-2019.09
Ari Ginsparg, GGB rotation student, 2019.10-2019.12
Yixin Zhang, undergraduate intern, CS of UAB, 2019.02-2019.05
Mary Bunton, GGB rotation student, 2018.10-2018.12
Dr. Ming Ye, Southwest University, China, Visiting Scientist (2017.10-2018.10)