Current Members
Lab Alumni
Post-docs
Sijie Chen, PhD
Post-doc
Projects
spatiotemporal modeling of single cells
Key Papers
- Morphic Nature paper (co-author)
- 3D single-cell multi-omics of human fetal heart (co-author, revision in Nature)
- spatiotemporal modeling of single cells (co-first, in submission)
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Stanford Lei Xing's lab
Research Staff
Cinlong Huang
Research Assistant
Projects
Metabolic labeling enabled multi-omics
Key Papers
Dynamo protocol paper (co-author, Nature protocol, accepted)
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MD-PhD Student at Yale School of Medicine
Yue Wu
Research Assistant
Projects
Aristo for cell fate controlling
Key Papers
Aristo (in preparation)
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PhD at CSHL
Sichao Yu
Remote Software Engineer
Projects
maintaining and developing Dynamo
Key Papers
Dynamo protocol paper (co-first, accepted by Nature Protocol)
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Software engineer at Scientific Computation Research Center
Visiting Researchers
Dingcheng Yi
Visiting Undergraduate Student from PKU
Projects
cell-cell communication of 3D spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
4D mouse heart (under revision in Cell)
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Columbia PhD
Yuzhen Mao
Visiting Master's Student
Projects
Pillar foundation model
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
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PhD in Computer Science at Stanford
Yimin Fan
Visiting Researcher from CUHK
Projects
Flow-matching based modeling of embryogenesis
Key Papers
- Pillar foundation model (co-author)
- PantheonOS (co-author)
- Navigo (under review)
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Finishing up PhD at CUHK
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)
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Finish up PhD at Imperial College London
Yimeng Qiao
Remote Post-Master Assistant from Fudan
Projects
Pillar foundation model
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
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Finishing up PhD at CUHK
Natalie Cao
Remote Post-Master Assistant from Stanford
Projects
- Virtual embryo comment
- Consensus embryo
Key Papers
Towards predictive virtual embryos with genomics and AI (first author, Nature Methods comment)
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CS Lab
Wenzhuo Tang
Visiting Researcher
Projects
Pillar foundation model
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
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Google
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 (NeurIPS: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13197)
Qiangwei Peng
Visiting Researcher from PKU
Projects
optics-free spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
match-seq (in preparation)
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Finishing up PhD at PKU
Chen Li
Visiting Researcher from Tsinghua
Projects
cell/gene perturbation with foundation models
Key Papers
Pillar (co-author, in preparation)
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Finishing up PhD at Tsinghua
Rotation Students
Yuexuan Yang
Rotation Student (BioE)
Projects
optics-free spatial transcriptomics
Key Papers
3D optics-free spatial transcriptomics (co-author, in preparation)
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PhD in Dr. Stanley Qi's lab
Samuel King
Rotation Student (BioE)
Projects
3D spatial transcriptomics modeling
Key Papers
Spateo (co-author, published in Cell)
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Brian Hie's lab for PhD
Christopher Zou
Rotation Student (Genetics)
Projects
Evolvable AI agents
Key Papers
PantheonOS (co-author, under revision)
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LatchBio
Alex John Belov
Rotation Student (Biomedical Data Science)
Projects
Causal modeling of perturbation data
Key Papers
Causal foundation model (in preparation)
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PhD at Aaron Newman's lab
Lab Administration
Michelle Ameri
Operations Manager
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Retirement
Eric Waters
Lab manager
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Lab manager at Natera