Group Members
We are looking for new Postdocs, PhD students, master students and/or intern students to join our team (see openings) !
Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor, UNMC
Assistant Director for Bioinformatics Core, UNMC
email: swan@unmc.edu
- Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2019
- Postdoc, Princeton University, USA, 2017
- PhD, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2014.
- BEng, Wuhan University, China, 2010.
Graduate Students

Lusheng Li
Graduate Student
- MSc in Applied Genomics, Imperial College London, 2022
- BSc in Agronomy, China Agricultural University, 2020

Hanyu Xiao
Graduate Student
- BSc in Biological Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2023

Mengtao Sun
Graduate Student
- MSc in Public Health, Soochow University, China, 2023
- BSc in Sanitary Inspection and Quarantine, Wannan Medical College, China, 2020

Xinchao Wu
Graduate Student
- MSc in Bioinformatics, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2024
- BSc in Bioinformatics, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, 2021

Nicholas Peterson
Graduate Student
- BSc in Biology, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA, 2024

Kah Meng Soh
Graduate Student (co-supervised with Dr. Jieqiong Wang)
- MSc in Statistics, University of Minnesota, USA, 2024
- BSc in Actuarial Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, 2019

Min-jeong Baek
Graduate Student
- MSc in Biomedicine & Nanobio Systems, Korea University, Korea, 2018
- BSc in Computer Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea, 2015

This could be you !
See openings for more info
Visiting Research Scholars

Dr. Xiaoting Fan
visiting research scholar
- Associate Chief Physician
- Linyi People’s Hospital of Shangdong, China
Intern Students

Cece Zhang
Intern Student
- Freshman undergraduate for University of Toronto, Canada

Xuehuan Zhu
Intern Student
- M.S. Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Connecticut, USA, 2022

Grace(Jiaqi) Ge
Intern Student
- First-year undergraduate, Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China, 2027

Ouyang Han
Intern Student
- M.S. Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University, USA, 2025
- M.S. Information System, Hofstra University, USA, 2024
- B.S. Public Administration, Sun Yat-sen University, China, 2006

Anulika Pearl Nwashili
Intern Student
- M.S. Bioinformatics, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA, 2024
- B.S. Computer Science, Ajayi Crowther University, USA, 2020

Sili Li
Intern Student
- B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics for Programming and Computing, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA, 2026

Xingmin Hu
Intern Student
- B.S. Financial Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics, China, 2026
Alumni