Dr. Wenyi Wang

Current Lab Members


Visiting Student


Former trainees

Jessica Lal

TRIUMPH postdoctoral fellow in immunology and computational biology, joint with Scott Kopetz

Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, UT Arlington, Cook Children's Hospital

Shuai Guo

PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory National Primate Research Center, Neuroscience

Anirban Chakraborty

Postdoctoral fellow in Statistics


Shuangxi Ji

Postdoctoral fellow in Biological Sciences

Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Eisai Co., Ltd.

Xiaoqian Liu

Postdoctoral fellow in Statistics

Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, UC Riverside Department of Statistics

Hoai Nam Nguyen

PhD in Statistics, Rice

Current Position: Data Scientist at Trusting Social

Yujie(Jeffery) Jiang

PhD in Statistics, Rice

Current Position: Senior Statistician at AbbVie

Elissa B Dodd-Eaton

Data Coordinator



Haswanth Vundavilli

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Position: Faculty fellow at IIT Hyderabad

Shaolong Cao

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Position: Computational Biologist at Biogen

Jaeil Ahn

Postdoctoral Fellow; joint with Ying Yuan

Current Position: Associate Professor at Georgetown University

Yu Fan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Position: Software Engineer at ExxonMobil

Xuedong (Peter) Pan

Postdoctoral Fellow; joint with Dr. Valen Johnson

Current Position: Bioinformatics R&D Engineer at Shengjie Technology

Seung Jun Shin

Postdoctoral Fellow; joint with Ying Yuan

Current Position: Professor at Korea University

Kaixian Yu

Postdoctoral Fellow; joint with Dr. Hongtu Zhu

Current Position: Research Scientist at DiDi Chuxing

Carlos C Vera Recio

MD/MS student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS

Current Position: Resident at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Jialu Li

PhD in Biostatistics, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS

Current Position: Biostatistician at Novartis

Gang Peng

PhD Biostatistics, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS

Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Indiana University Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics

Zeya Wang

PhD Statistics, Rice; joint with Dr. Jeffrey Morris

Current Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky Department of Statistics

Former visiting and rotation trainees

Yuanshan Duan

PhD student in Statistics, UT Austin

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Dori Rosenstrauch

Summer intern college student, Georgetown University


Huiying Hu

Intern Master student, Rice Statistics

Current Position: PhD student at UTHealth SPH biostatistics

Carissa Fong

Summer Intern, Pre-Med Bioinformatics at Baylor University

Current Position: PhD student at University of Utah Molecular Biology

Tianyi Chu

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program



Yufan Wu

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program


Suraksha Vinod

Summer Intern, Master in Bioinformatics, Georgia Tech

Current Position: PhD student at PSU bioinformatics

Wenwei (Vivia) Jiao

PhD in Statistics, NCSU



Simin Chen

PhD in Biostatistics, UTSPH



Meredith Frank

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program


Annabel Settle

Summer Intern, PhD student at Duke Statistics



Armina Fani

CPRIT/UPWARDS Summer Intern, undergrad in CS from Georgia State University


Naoko Little-Jackson

Partnership for Careers in Cancer Science and Medicine Research Intern, PhD student in Howard University

Joonha Chang

Visiting PhD student, UThealth Biostatistics



Shu-Hsien Cho

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program


Tobie Lee

Rotation PhD student, Baylor College of Medicine QCB Program

Xinghua Tao

Research Intern



Hongjin An

Intern Master student, Rice Statistics


Katie Salmon

Intern College student, Rice Statistics


Meredith Clayton

Intern PhD student, Rice Statistics


Alexander Martin

Hematology Oncology Fellow at Tufts Medical Center

Peng Yang

Graduate Research Assistant PhD student, Rice Statistics


Yupei Lin

Rotation PhD student, BCM Quantitative and Computational Biology program


Shengbin Ye

Intern PhD student, Rice Statistics


Huimin Lin

Graduate Research Assistant PhD student, Rice Statistics


Fan Gao

Graduate Research Assistant PhD student, Rice Statistics


Jingxiao Chen

Graduate Research Assistant at UTSPH Biostatistics

Current Position: Senior Scientist at Regeneron

Ruoxuan Tian

Graduate Research Assistant Master student, Rice Statistics



Rongjie Liu

Graduate Research Assistant PhD student, Rice Statistics



Sara Algeri

Graduate Research Assistant MS Statistics, TAMU

Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota

Licai Huang

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program



Andrew Koval

Intern PhD student, Rice Statistics




Timothy Cheng

Summer intern college student, Texas A&M Statistics

Oluwatoni Ajala

Intern college student

Xue Wu

Intern Master student, Rice Statistics

Hanyi Zheng

Intern Master student, Emory University Biostatistics

Yipeng Gao

Rotation PhD student, BCM Quantitative and Computational Biology program


Nichollette Gonzalez

Intern college student, University of Puerto Rico


Wanli Wang

Rotation PhD student, BCM Quantitative and Computational Biology program


Yutong Yao

Summer intern college student, Notre Dame University


Xin Su

Intern college student, Texas A&M


Ramiz Iqbal

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program


Wenhao Li

Rotation PhD student, UTHealth MD Anderson GSBS Quantitative Sciences program