Principal Investigator
Ya Cui, PhD
Dr. Ya (Allen) Cui received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did Postdoc trainings in Baylor College of Medicine and University of California, Irvine. Now he is a Principal Investigator (Assistant Professor) of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UC Irvine.
Dr. Cui is a formal member of the GREGoR Consortium.
Email: yac7@uci.edu
Postdoc Fellow
Wenbin Ye, PhD
Wenbin Ye received her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Xiamen University in 2021. Her current research focuses on using multi-omics data to explore the functions of APA, aiming to better understand human biology and disease in support of biomedical decision-making.
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Cong Liu, PhD
Dr. Liu is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her PhD in Computational Biology at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. During her PhD and postdoctoral work, Cong studied RNA modifications, multi-omic data mining and big data analytics. She is generally interested in Bioinformatics and genomics applied to RNA biology.
Xinzhi Hu, MD, PhD
Dr. Hu is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her B.S. in Biology at Tsinghua University and M.D. in Clinical Medicine at Peking Union Medical College, Division of Neurology. Dr. Hu's research focus on uncovering new genetics risk variants/genes in brain diosders, such as neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases.
Jingjing Lyu, PhD
Dr. Lyu is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her PhD in Biostatistics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Lyu's research focus on multi omics data analysis and statistical genetics.
Students
Tanye Wen
Tanye Wen is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. His research currently focuses on integrative analysis of high-throughput multi-omics data for complex diseases based on next-generation sequencing.
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Raul Quintero
Raul Quintero is a first-year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program at UCI. His research currently focuses on applying mathematical modeling, statistics, and computational analysis to biological problems.
Siang Chen
Siang chen is a upcoming PhD student in Bioinformatics at UC Irvive. Her research currently focuses on human genetics and developing bioinformatics algorithms for bigdata analysis.
Yiren Chen
Yiren Chen (remote mentee) is a student in Computer Science. Her research currently focuses on developing bioinformatics algorithms for bigdata analysis.
Abinaya Ravi
Abinaya Ravi is a undergraduate student in Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her research currently focuses on developing bioinformatics algorithms for analyzing epigenetic data and RNA regulation.
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Binzhi Liao
Binzhi Liao (remote mentee) is a student majoring in Clinical Medicine. His research focuses on genome-wide association studies and integrative multi-omics analyses.
Zhiyao Cheng
Zhiyao Chen (remote mentee) is a student majoring in Biology. Her research focuses on disease biology and integrative multi-omics analyses.
Ziyi Wang
Ziyi Wang is a undergraduate student in public health at UC Irvine. Her research currently focuses on artificial intelligence in healthcare and developing bioinformatics methods.