Team | Wang Lab

Guangyu Wang, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Director of Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CB2).
Associate Professor of Computational Biology.
Associate Member, Research Institute, Houston Methodist / Weill Cornell Medical College.

Dr. Wang’s research focuses on integrating multi-omics such as scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and epigenetics to investigate the dynamics of cellular states and regulation mechanisms. He leads the lab in developing cutting-edge AI foundation models for biomedical research.

Pengzhi Zhang

Research Associate

Pengzhi received a Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Houston. He investigates the dynamic of cellular states and cell-cell communication using statistical inference and machine learning.

Tu (Alex) N Tran

Research Assistant

Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Finance. In Wang Lab, he manages GitHub, pipelines, and data servers, and contributes to collaborative projects with data analysis and visualization.

Weiqing Chen

Ph.D. Student

Weiqing is a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medicine interested in the intersection of machine learning/deep learning and single-cell dynamics/spatial biology, particularly RNA velocity and computational pathology.

Yiwei Xiao

Postdoc Fellow

Yiwei graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. in Pathogen Organism. He focuses on using AI models to develop novel tools for image language and sequencing data.

Xiaohan (Hannah) Zhao

Ph.D. Student

Xiaohan is a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medicine, leveraging deep learning to tackle complex genomic problems. She holds a master’s degree in Bioinformatics from Fudan University.

Jian Sang

Research Associate

JS received a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from CAS. After postdoctoral training at NCI-DCEG (NIH), he joined Wang Lab to develop emerging models for Omics and Epidemiological insights.

Qing Li

Postdoc Fellow

Qing Li received a Ph.D. in computer science from CAS. She focuses on developing AI models for computational pathology, single-cell dynamics, and spatial biology.

Yuyan (Yolanda) Chen

Postdoc Fellow

Yuyan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Fudan University. She focuses on building large language and multimodal models for computational pathology and spatial biology.

Lab Alumni

Shengyu Li (2025) - PI in Houston Methodist, Weill Cornell Medical School

Ibrahem Kandel (2024) - AI Scientist, Grady Health System

Zeyu Yang (2023) - PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Lingqun Ye (2022) - Associate Data Scientist, MD Anderson Cancer Center