Mike received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Biological Anthropology & Anatomy from Duke University and subsequently earned his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health under the guidance of Drs. Michael Boehnke and Xihong Lin. Since joining the faculty in the Department of Human Genetics at Emory University in 2002, he has conducted interdisciplinary research primarily focused on the development and application of statistical and computational techniques for gene mapping of complex human traits and diseases. He is involved in several large-scale genetic studies of complex traits with a particular focus on schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, and craniofacial disorders. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, reading, attending rock concerts, and being an obnoxious Duke basketball fan. 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hNyL5jMAAAAJ&hl=en

Ph. D. student

E-mail: shijia dot bian at emory dot edu

Shijia received her BS in Statistics, Economics and Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) from University of Washington - Seattle in 2013. She completed her MS in Statistics at Duke University in 2016. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory. Her research interest is in developing statistical methods for genetic discovery in Alzheimer’s disease that can potentially help future drug development. She enjoys playing with her cats, painting, hiking and cooking in her spare time.

Ph. D. student

E-mail: qile dot dai at emory dot edu

Qile received her undergraduate degree in Economic Statistics from University of International Business and Economics in 2018, master in Biostatistics from Yale in 2020, and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory. Her research interests include transcriptome-wide association studies and single-cell analysis. Outside of school, she enjoys reading, cooking, and board gaming.

Ph. D. student

E-mail: jing dot huang at emory dot edu

Jing received her B.Sc. in Applied Biological Sciences from Zhejiang University in 2021, M.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from Emory University in 2023, and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory. With a general research interest in statistical genetics and genomics, her current research projects focus on the topics of Spatial Transcriptomics and transcriptome-wide association studies. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, cooking, hiking, and traveling.

Andrei obtained his B. Sc. from the Technical University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2004, M. Sc. from SUNY Stony Brook in 2009 and Ph. D. from the University of Florida in 2014, all  in Computer Science. For his Ph. D. research he studied proabilistic models for biological networks. Coming to Emory he implemented data analysis workflows for metabolomics and now works in the Michael Epstein Lab on cloud computing and parallelization, in particular simulations for statistical genetics on the AWS platform.

Web page: www.cise.ufl.edu/~atodor