Meet the People

Current Members

Xiaojie Qiu, PhD

Xiaojie Qiu, PhD

Principal Investigator
Oriane Rubio, PhD

Oriane Rubio, PhD

Research Project Manager
Nicole Navarro, PhD

Nicole Navarro, PhD

Research Project Manager
Hadley Bickford

Hadley Bickford

Administrative Associate
Michelle Ameri

Michelle Ameri

Operations Manager
Miao Cui, PhD

Miao Cui, PhD

Staff scientist
Sijie Chen, PhD

Sijie Chen, PhD

Post-doc
Nianping Liu, PhD

Nianping Liu, PhD

Post-doc
Weize Xu, PhD

Weize Xu, PhD

Post-doc
Naoki Konno, PhD

Naoki Konno, PhD

Post-doc
Peter Pao-Huang

Peter Pao-Huang

PhD Student (Computer Science)
Christopher Zou

Christopher Zou

Rotation Student (Genetics)
Alex John Belov

Alex John Belov

Rotation Student (Biomedical Data Science)
Mengchen Wang

Mengchen Wang

PhD Student (Computer Science)
Annabelle Shilling

Annabelle Shilling

Stanford undergrad (BioE and Materials Science)
Cinlong Huang

Cinlong Huang

Research Assistant
Yifan Lu

Yifan Lu

Visiting Researcher
Wenzhuo Tang

Wenzhuo Tang

Visting Researcher
Zehua Zeng

Zehua Zeng

Visiting Researcher
Jiayuan Ding

Jiayuan Ding

Visiting Researcher
Lei Li

Lei Li

Remote Scientist

Lab Alumni

Valentina Giunchiglia

Valentina Giunchiglia

Visiting Researcher from Imperial College London and Harvard
Projects
multi-modal agent system of congenital heart disease
Key Papers
multi-modal agent system (in Preparation)
Current Role
Finish up PhD at Imperial College London
Chen Li

Chen Li

Visiting Researcher from Tsinghua
Projects
cell/gene perturbation with foundation models
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
Current Role
Finishing up PhD at Tsinghua
Qiangwei Peng

Qiangwei Peng

Visiting Researcher from PKU
Projects
optics-free spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
optics-free spatial transcriptomics (co-author, in preparation)
Current Role
Finishing up PhD at PKU
Yuzhen Mao

Yuzhen Mao

PhD Student (CS)
Projects
Pillar foundation model
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
Current Role
PhD in Computer Science at Stanford
Yuexuan Yang

Yuexuan Yang

BioE (rotation))
Projects
optics-free spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
3D optics-free spatial transcriptomics (co-author, in preparation)
Current Role
PhD in Dr. Stanley Qi's lab
Dingcheng Yi

Dingcheng Yi

Visting Undergraduate Student from PKU
Projects
cell-cell communication of 3D spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
4D mouse heart (in submission)
Current Role
Columbia PhD
Eric Waters

Eric Waters

Lab manager
Current Role
Lab manager at Natera
Samuel King

Samuel King

BioE (rotation)
Projects
3D spatial transcriptomics modeling
Key Papers
Spateo (published in Cell)
Current Role
PhD at Brian Hie lab
Sichao Yu

Sichao Yu

Remote Software Engineer
Projects
maintaining and developing Dynamo
Key Papers
Dynamo protocol paper (under review)
Current Role
Software engineer at Scientific Computation Research Center
Stephen Zhang

Stephen Zhang

Visiting PhD Student from University of Melbourne
Projects
score-based model of time-resolved Perturb-seq
Key Papers
Inferring stochastic dynamics with growth from cross-sectional data (NeuroIPS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13197)
Current Role
Research intern at Apple MLR
Yimeng Qiao

Yimeng Qiao

Remote Post-Master Assistant from Fudan
Projects
Pillar foundation model
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
Current Role
PhD at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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