Team

Current members

PhD Students

• Chang Bi 2021.09 – Present (Co-supervisor Dr. Sebastien Fabbro, NRC)
  
• Zhaoze Liu 2021.09 – Present
  Award 1: (2023.9-2024.8) VADA Trainee Scholarship (NSERC CREATE)
  
• Longwen Shang 2022.09 – Present (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic)
  Award 1: (2023.7-2023.10) EcoCanada EFTD Program
  Award 2: (2024.3-2024.8) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  
• Shiyu Xu 2022.09 – Present
  Internship: (2023.5-2023.12) VERACYTE
• Qianyun Zhao 2023.09 – Present
  Award 1: (2024.3-2024.8) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  

Master Students

• Jing Zhang 2023.09 – Present (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic)
  
• Patrick Dann 2024.09 – Present (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic)
  Award 1: (2024.10-2025.03) BioTalent Science Horizons Youth Intership Program
  
• JingYu Xu 2024.09 – Present (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic)
  Award 1: (2024.09) UVic Facuty of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship
  
• Jason Thomo , 2025.05 – Present (Co-supervisor)
  

Long-term Visitors

• Lina Li (PhD student, University of Saskatchewan, Canada), 2023.08 – Present
  

Alumni

PhD students

Postdoctorate Fellows and Research Associates

• Omar Alaqeeli 2018.10 – 2019.12
  First job: Assistant Professor, AI Yamamah University, Saudi Arabia
• Elham Majd 2022.06 – 2023.06
  

Master Students

• Soojeong Kim 2023.09 – 2025.08
  
• Shuyi Long 2022.09 – 2025.06
  First job: Founder / Entrepreneur (Self-Employed Business Owner)
• Yingjie Hou 2023.07 – 2024.12
  Award 1: (2023.7-2023.10) EcoCanada EFTD Program
  First job: BC Pension Fund & Public Sector Investing (BCI)
• Wanmeng Wang 2022.09 – 2024.08
  Award 1: (2024.3-2024.8) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  First job: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce（CIBC）
• Haochen Ning 2023.8
  Thesis: Iimi: A novel automated workflow for plant virus diagnostics from high-throughput sequencing data
  Award: (2023.05) Best Posters Awards of the CSSC Conference - 2nd prize
  First job: PhD Student, UVic Zhang Lab
• Guojun Ma (Co-supervisor Dr. Yu-Ting Chen, UVic) 2023.08
  
• Xiaolin Huang 2022.06
  Thesis: Statistical Research on COVID-19 Response
  Firest job: Amazon , Vancouver
• Xiangling Ji (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic) 2022.07
  Work Study: (2021.01 - 2021.04) Centre for Biomedical Research, UVic
  Thesis: scAnnotate: An Automated Cell Type Annotation Tool for Single-cell RNA-Sequencing Data
  
• Yichen Yan 2022.08
  Award 1: (2020.09) UVic Facuty of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship
  Award 2: (2021.09-2022.08) VADA Trainee Scholarship (NSERC CREATE)
  First job: PhD student, Simon Fraser University , Canada
  
• Shaoze Zhou (Co-supervisor Dr. Min Tsao, UVic), 2022.08
  Thesis: Deep Learning Methods May Not Outperform Other Machine Learning Methods on Analyzing Genomic Studies
  Award: (2021.09-2022.08) Biotalent SWPP
  
• Yang Guo (Co-supervisor Dr. Li Xing, USask), 2021.07
  Thesis: Learning COVID-19 network from literature databases using core decomposition
  Award 1: (2019.09-2020.08) VADA Trainee Scholarship (NSERC CREATE)
  Award 2: (2020.07) VADA Student Research Presentation Award
  Internship: (2020.07-2020.08) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
  Work Study: (2020.09 - 2020.12) Centre for Biomedical Research, UVic
  First job: Manager, Scotiabank, Canada
  
• Yuying Huang 2021.08
  Thesis: Novel Modelling of High-frequency Stock Trading Data
  Work Study: (2019.09 - 2020.04) Centre for Biomedical Research, UVic
  Award 1: (2020.09-2021.08) VADA Trainee Scholarship (NSERC CREATE)
  Award 2: (2021.07) VADA Student Research Presentation Award
  Internship: (2021.06-2021.08) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
  First job: PhD student, University of Waterloo , Canada
  
• Songwan Joun (Co-supervisor Dr. Li Xing, USask) 2021.4
  Thesis: Multi-SNP prediction model for lung function decline
  Award 1: (2019.09-2020.08) VADA Trainee Scholarship (NSERC CREATE)
  Internship: (2020.01-2020.06) Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  Award 2: (2020.07-2020.12) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  First job: International Rice Research Institute
  
• Qincheng Lu 2020.08
  Award: (2018.09-2019.08) MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship
  Thesis: A Novel Method for Differential Expression Analysis of Single Cell RNA-seq Data
  First job: PhD student, McGill University, Canada
  
• Ailan Shi 2019.06
  MSc Degree Project: Aggregating Multiple Genomic Studies Using Ensemble Data Analysis
  Internship: (2018.05-2018.08) Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  Award: (2018.09-2019.06) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship at Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Vancouver
  First job: LalaMove (货拉拉), Shenzhen China
  
• Peijie Xie 2019.05
  MSc Degree Project: An R package for Multi-Task Prediction
  Work Study: (2017.09 - 2018.04) Centre for Biomedical Research, UVic
  Internship: (2018.05 - 2018.12) British Columbia Investment Management Corporation , Victoria
  First job: Electronic Arts Inc. , Vancouver
  Current job: Amazon , Vancouver

Long-term Visitors

• Qianli Ma (Associate Professor, Shanxi University, China), 2023.09 – 2024.08
  
• Xiaowen Cao (PhD student, Hebei University of Technology, China, funded by CSC fellowship), 2020.02 – 2024.04
• Yao Dong (Faculty, Hebei University of Technology, China， funded by CSC grant), 2021.12 – 2023.08
  
• Elham Majd (Lecturer, Islamic Azad University, Iran), 2020.10 – 2022.05
  

Staff/Programmer

• Shelly Gao 2022.06 – 2025.12
  

Undergraduate Students

• Bryce Davidson (UVic) , 2024.05 – 2025.09
  Full-time intern
• Jason Thomo (UVic) Research Assistant, 2024.05 – 2025.04
  
• Andy Chen (University of British Columbia) Summer research intern, 2024.06 – 2024.8
  
• Houshi He Summer research intern, 2023.08 – 2023.10
  Award: (2023.08-2021.10) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Yanjun Guo Summer research intern, 2023.08 – 2023.10
  Award: (2023.08-2021.10) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Danielle Tsao (UVic) Research Assistant, 2021.05 – 2023.08
  Award 1: (2021.05-2021.08) NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards
  Award 2: (2021.09-2022.04) Biotalent SWPP
  Award 3: (2022.05) Best Posters Awards of the CSSC Conference - 1st prize
  Award 4: (2022.05-2022.08) UVic Science Emerging Researcher Award (SERA)
  Award 5: (2022.08) UVic Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards
  Award 6: (2022.10-2023.01) MATICS Accelerate Fellowship
  First job: PhD Student, University of Washington
  
• Christine Wong Chong (UVic) Full-time internship @ CFIA, 2023.01 – 2023.08
  
• Markus Swoveland (UVic) Full-time internship @ CFIA, 2023.01 – 2023.08
  
• Aman Monga (UVic) Full-time internship @ CFIA, 2022.05 – 2022.12
  
• Xuhui Wang (UVic) Summer research intern, 2022.05 – 2022.08
  
• Sen Mu (Tongji University) Summer research intern 2022.07 – 2022.11
  Award: (2022.07-2022.11) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Liuyi Lan (Beijing Normal University) Summer research intern2022.07 – 2022.10
  Award: (2022.07 – 2022.10) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Morgan Magee (UVic) Full-time internship (co-sponsored by BioTalent Career Starter Program), 2022.06 – 2022.08
  
• Shanshan Xue (UVic) Summer research intern, 2022.05 – 2022.08
  
• Blake Smith (UVic) Summer internship @ CFIA, 2022.05 – 2022.09
  
• Lizhang Chen (Beijing Jiaotong University) Summer research intern, 2021.07 – 2021.10
  Award: (2021.07-2021.10) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Haijun Jia (Beihang University) Summer research intern, 2021.07 – 2021.10
  Award: (2021.07-2021.10) MITACS Globalink Research Internship
  
• Yitao Lu (University of Science and Technology of China) Summer research intern, 2019.07 – 2019.10
  First job: PhD Student, School of Data Science, City University of HongKong, China
  
• Yushan Hu (Northwestern Polytechnical University) Summer research intern, 2019.07 – 2019.10
  First job: PhD student, University of Victoria , Canada