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
Yanan Lou
Graduate Student
- MSc in Biostatistics, Tulane University, USA, 2022
- BSc in Biopharmaceutics, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China, 2019
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Rotation Graduate Students
Iesha Bryant
Graduate Student
- BSc in Biological Sciences | Psychology, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA, 2020
KAYODE YOMI RAHEEM
Graduate Student
- MSc in Bioinformatics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, 2024
- BSc in Biochemistry with Honors, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Nigeria, 2017
SOMMER HOKULANI RAMOS
Graduate Student
- BSc in Biology, Creighton University, Omaha, USA, 2022
Dang, Richard C
Graduate Student
- BSc in Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, 2022
Intern Students
Junxi Feng
Intern Student
- 23 fall master student for Harvard University, USA
- B.S., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, 2023
Cece Zhang
Intern Student
- Freshman undergraduate for University of Toronto, Canada
Cong Liu
Intern Student
- Sophomore student at University of Waterloo, Canada
Yijin Zou
Intern Student
- Senior undergraduate at China Agricultural University, China
Wenhao Zhang
Intern Student
- M.S. Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, China, 2025
- B.S. Computer Science, Xidian University, China, 2022
Xuehuan Zhu
Intern Student
- M.S. Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Connecticut, USA, 2022
Simarpreet Kaur
Intern Student
- BS-MS Biology Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM), Kerala, India, 2025
Eswar Byrav Ramamurthy
Intern Student
- Undergraduate Freshman, Major in Biochemistry, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, USA, 2027
Grace(Jiaqi) Ge
Intern Student
- First-year undergraduate, Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China, 2027
Weiqi Ye
Intern Student
- Undergraduate Junior, Major in Applied Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, USA, 2025
Saiyi Cao
Intern Student
- First-year undergraduate, Major in Biotechnology, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China, 2027
Neil Linehan
Intern Student
- M.S. Data Analytics, Western Governors University, USA, 2025
- B.S. Bachelor of Science in Physics and Geographic Information Science, Arizana State University, USA, 2024
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
Navya Pavani Pachava
Intern Student
- M.S. Bio Medical Informatics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, 2024
- B.S. Agriculture Science, Loyola Academy - Hyderabad, India, 2021
Visitors
Master students
Bachelor Students