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I’m very fortunate to work with several amazing students to whom I serve as their primary advisor or co-advisor.
Current Members
Ying Ma
Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications & Technology; Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & CCMB, Brown University (2023 – Present)
Chichun (TJ) Tan
PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, Brown University (08/2023 – Present)
Xin Wei
PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, Brown University (08/2023 – Present), co-advised with Prof. Zhijin (Jean) Wu
Yu (Zoe) Zhu
PhD Candidate, Computational Biology, Brown University (02/2024 – Present)
Ruohan Wang
PhD Candidate, Computational Biology, Brown University (09/2024 – Present)
Seowon Chang
PhD Student, Computational Biology, Brown University (09/2025 – Present)
Previously an undergraduate researcher in the Ma Lab (2023–2025)
Jing Fu
PhD Student, Biostatistics, Brown University (09/2025 – Present), co-advised with Prof. Christopher Schmid
Previously a master's student in the Ma Lab (2023–2025)
Man-Fang Liang
PhD Student, Statistics, Purdue University (2026 – Present), co-advised with Dr. Gao (primary advisor)
Previously a master's student in the Ma Lab (2025–2026)
Andrew Yang
MD Student, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University (09/2025 – Present)
Previously an undergraduate researcher in the Ma Lab (2023–2025)
Junbong Jang
PhD Rotation Student, Computational Biology, Brown University (2026 – Present)
Zhongyu Fan
Master's Student, Biostatistics, Brown University (2025 – Present)
Haochen Tan
Master's Student, Biostatistics, Brown University (2025 – Present)
Chaewon Oh
Master's Student, Biostatistics, Brown University (2026 – Present)
Jonathan Xu
Undergraduate Student, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University (2025 – Present)
Jefferey Lee
Undergraduate Student, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University (2025 – Present)
Alumni
Jingxuan Bao
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2025 – 2026); now ML/AI Scientist I at the Allen Institute
Zizhao Xie
M.S. Student, Biostatistics (2025 – 2026); now PhD Student at the University of Minnesota
Ian Liu
M.S. Student, Biostatistics (2025 – 2026); now PhD Student at Dartmouth College
Zixiao Gao
M.S. Student, Computer Science (2025 - 2026); now PhD Student at Brown University
Wenxing (Blue) Wang
Visiting Research Assistant; now PhD Student in Biostatistics at the University of Florida
Vivek Rajani
Undergraduate Student Researcher (2023 - 2025); Now Clinical Research Assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)
Faith Shim
Undergraduate Researcher (2024–2025); now Engineer I at Verizon