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.

Yuping Yang

Postdoc Fellow

Yuping received her Ph.D. from Zhejiang University. Her research focuses on developing multimodal AI models for multi-omics integration, with a particular emphasis on the application of DNA foundation models to decode complex biological systems and enhance precision medicine.

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