Jiguang Wang

Jiguang WANG (王吉光)

Principal Investigator

PhD in Applied Mathematics

AMSS, CAS

Yanbing WANG

Yanbing WANG (王雁冰)

Research Assistant Professor

2024.2.19 -- present, PhD in Biostatistics, Boston University

Yanbing WANG joined the group as a Research Assistant Professor. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Kent State University, Master’s degree from Brown University, and Ph.D degree from Boston University in 2021. She completed her post-doctoral training in HKU and then joined Wang’s lab since February 2024. Her research focuses on developing and applying the statistical methods in genome-wide association studies to elucidate the genetic architecture of complex diseases.


Rickie LEUNG

Rickie LEUNG (梁煒華)

Lab Manager

2021. -- present, B.S. in Biochemistry, HKUST

Life Science Technical officer, Mr. Rickie LEUNG, has joined WANG Lab since 2021. He served as technical support and liaison person for both dry lab and wet lab.


Ming YANG

Ming YANG (楊明)

Postdoctoral Researcher

2024.03.18 -- present, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sun Yat-Sen University

Ming YANG is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Division of Life Science. She received her Bachelor and Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2011 and 2017 supervised by Professor Suhua Shi and Professor Chung-I Wu. Then, she went to the University of Washington to do post-doc research in aging and age-related disease with the guidance of Professor Daniel Promislow. In March 2024, she joined the Wang lab as a Post-doctoral Fellow. Her current research focuses on aging and cancer.


Dong SONG

Dong SONG (宋東)

Postdoctoral Researcher

2019.8.15 -- present, PhD in life science, HKUST

Dong SONG is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Jiguang WANG's group. He obtained his bachelor's degree in bioinformatics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University(SJTU) in 2016, during which he focused on computational chemistry and structural biology. He proceeded with his M.S. study in Professor Haifeng CHEN's lab at SJTU. His M.S. thesis is focused on precise protein force fields developing, in which he built 3 novel well-performed force fields. He completed his Ph.D. study in Professor Jiguang WANG's group in 2024. His current research interest is mechanism revealing of cancer and functional prediction of ncRNA.


Zhanye ZHANG

Zhanye ZHANG (張展曄)

Research Assistant

2024.8.12 -- present, B.S. in Biological Science (Bioinformatics), Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Zhanye ZHANG is a Research Assistant in the Wang Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Biological Science with a focus on Bioinformatics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2024. Currently, his research focuses on multi-omics analysis and precision medicine in cancer.


Zhanye ZHANG

Yonghong LAI (賴泳宏)

Research Assistant

2024.8.12 -- present, 2024.9.9 -- present, M.S. in Oncology, Southern Medical University

Yonghong LAI is a Research Assistant in Professor Jiguang WANG's group. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in clinical medicine and Master’s degree in Oncology at Southern Medical University in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Currently, his research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance especially about the immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma.


Zongchao MO

Zongchao MO (莫宗超)

PhD Student

2020.9.15 -- present, M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SCUT

Zongchao MO is a PhD student in Professor Jiguang WANG's group. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Biotechnology and Master degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He is also a member of joint program held by BGI and SCUT during 2016-2020.


Jiabao LI

Jiabao LI (李佳寶)

PhD Student (Co-advisor: Dr. Quanhua MU), HKPFS Awardee

2020.8.15 -- present, MPhil in Life Science, HKUST

Jiabao Li is a PhD student in the Wang Lab. He received his Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Chemical Biology from Xi'an Jiaotong University, where he focused on modeling and simulation analysis of directed evolution systems under the supervision of Prof. Dan Tan. During his MPhil studies in WangLab@HKUST, he concentrated on the spatiotemporal modeling and computational analysis of brain tumors. Currently, he is focusing on the evolution of brain tumor cells using both computational methods and experimental data.


Xiaomeng ZHANG

Xiaomeng ZHANG (張曉萌)

PhD Student (Co-advisor: Prof. Can YANG)

2020.9. -- present, M.P.H. in Biostatistics, Yale University

Xiaomeng ZHANG is a PhD Student in Professor Jiguang WANG's group. She obtained her bachelor's degree in bioinformatics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2019 and her Master of Public Health degree in biostatistics at Yale University in 2020. Then she was admitted into Department of Date Science and Analytics in Information Hub of HKUST (Guangzhou). Her current research interest is bioinformatical analysis of alternative splicing related to tumor recurrence.


Jihong TANG

Jihong TANG (唐吉宏)

PhD Student, HKPFS Awardee

2021.8.15 -- present, B.S. in Biology, Nanjing University

Jihong TANG is a Ph.D. student in Life Science (Scientific Computation Concentration) at the Wang Lab. He received his Bachelor's degree from Nanjing University, China. After graduated from Kuang Yaming Honors School in 2020, he worked as a research assistant in Prof. Jianqun CHEN's Lab in the School of Life Science at Nanjing University. He focused on the computational identification of Type II Diabetes-related epigenomic biomarkers during his career at Nanjing University. His current research interest is on brain tumors related computational methods development and analysis.


Mengli YAN

Mengli YAN (閆夢麗)

PhD Student (Co-advisor: Prof. Yusong GUO)

2022.1. -- present, M.S. in Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Mengli YAN joined the Wang lab as a PhD student in life science in 2022. Mengli got her Bachelor's degree of science in Medical Laboratory Technology (Pathological Laboratory Technology) at Harbin Medical University in 2017 and then obtained her Mater's Degree of Medicine on Pathology and Pathophysiology at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in 2020. After that, she worked as a research assistant in School of Pharmaceutical sciences, Tsinghua University as a research assistant in Dr.Haidong Tang's lab, mainly worked on treatment of hepatitis B virus infection. Her current research interest is on using both wet lab methods and bioinformatic methods to solve clinical problems, especially about cancers.


Yuyan RUAN

Yuyan RUAN (阮鈺燕)

PhD Student (Co-advisor: Prof. Hao CHEN), Red Bird Awardee

2022.8.15 -- present, B.Eng in Computer and Data Engineering, CityU

Yuyan RUAN is a Ph.D. student in bioengineering (scientific computation concentration) at the Wang Lab. She received her bachelor's degree from City University of Hong Kong. She worked on medical image super-resolution supervised by Dr. Yuan Yixuan and Dr. Chen Hao as an FYP student. In her Ph.D. study, she will explore multimodal deep learning models for brain tumor analysis.


Zhi HUANG

Zhi HUANG (黃智)

PhD Student, Red Bird Awardee

2022.8.15 -- present, B.S. in Mathematics, China university of Petroleum (Beijing)

Zhi HUANG is a Ph.D. student in bioengineering (scientific computation concentration) at the Wang Lab. He received his bachelor's degree from China University of Petroleum(Beijing). His current research interest is on drug combination prediction using multi-omics data.


Minghao WANG

Minghao WANG (王明灝)

PhD Student (Co-advisor: Prof. Hao CHEN)

2023.8.15 -- present, M.S. in Big Data Technology, HKUST

Minghao WANG is a Ph.D. student in bioengineering (scientific computation concentration) at the Wang Lab. He completed his bachelor's degree at Southeast University in 2022. He obtained his Master's degree in Big Data Technology from HKUST in 2023. Currently, his research interests include the application of biological foundation models, medical computer vision, and trustworthy machine learning.


Yimeng QIAO

Yimeng QIAO (喬藝萌)

PhD Student

2024.3.18 -- present, M.S. in Software Engineering, Fudan University

Yimeng QIAO is a Research Assistant in the Wang Lab. She will enroll in bioengineering (scientific computation concentration) Ph.D program this fall. Previously, she received her Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Shandong University in 2020 and subsequently obtained her master's degree in Software Engineering from Fudan University in 2023. Her master's research focused on AI for Database, especially learning-based large-scale data approximate visualization. Currently, her research interest is the application of deep learning in life science, especially in cancer genomics.


Ran LIU

Ran LIU (劉然)

PhD Student, HKPFS Awardee

2024.8.19 -- present, B.S. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and in Data Science and Technology, HKUST

Ran LIU joined the Wang Lab as a PhD student in Life Science (Scientific computation concentration). He received his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and in Data Science and Technology at HKUST. Currently, his research focus on integrative study on cancer multi-omics.


Haoyu WANG

Haoyu WANG (王浩宇)

PhD Student, Red Bird Awardee

2024.8.19 -- present, M.S. in Bioinformatics, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Haoyu WANG is a Ph.D. student in Life Science (scientific computational concentration) at Wang Lab. He completed his bachelor's degree in bioengineering at Huazhong Agricultural University. He obtained his master's degree in bioinformatics from Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, his research interests include the 3D genomics and cancer genomics.


Jooran LEE

Jooran LEE (李週兰)

MPhil student, Asian Future Leaders Scholarship Program (AFLSP) Awardee

2023.1.16 -- present, B.Eng in Bioengineering, HKUST

Jooran LEE is an MPhil student at the Wang lab who has completed undergraduate study in the HKUST. She majored in Bioengineering and had several research experiences in the field of cancer genomics. She has a research experience in Wang's lab during her undergraduate study and completed her final year thesis in Wang's lab. Her research focus is a computational biology on investigating roles of non-coding genomes in brain cancer.


Qi AN

Qi AN (安淇)

MPhil student

2023.6. -- present, M.S. in Biotechnology, HKUST

Qi AN is currently a MPhil student in Life Science at the Wang Lab. She completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Melbourne in 2020, where her studies revolved around investigating host immune responses to microbes. She then obtained a master's degree in Biotechnology at HKUST in 2023. Her research interests lie in unravelling the mechanism of driver genes for rare tumours by combining wet lab experimentation with bioinformatics methods.


Can NI

Can NI (倪燦)

MPhil student (Primary advisor: Prof. Qinglu ZENG)

2023.9.4 -- present, B.Eng in Biomedical Engineering, Peking University

Can NI is a 1st-year Mphil student in OCES, under supervision of Prof. Qinglu ZENG and Prof. Jiguang WANG. Her previous research mainly focused on the genomic characteristics and microbial interactions of pathogenic bacteria in the environment and human gut. Currently she works on the genomic analysis of marine bacteria and phages.


Mengqi YANG

Mengqi YANG (楊夢琦)

PhD student (Primary advisor: Prof. Kun SUN)

2023.9.4 -- present, M.S. in Biotechnology, HKUST

Mengqi YANG is a Ph.D. student in Life Science (joint program with Shen Zhen Bay Lab, Professor Kun SUN) at Wang Lab. She completed her bachelor's degree at Jinan University in 2019, where her research included neurotoxicology. She got her Master's degree in Biotechnology from HKUST in 2020. She worked as a research assistant in Prof. Kun SUN lab between 2021 to 2023. Currently, her research interests include non-invasive diagnosis and cancer metastasis mechanism exploration combined with bioinformatic methods for cancers.


Kewei XIONG

Kewei XIONG (熊可為)

PhD student (Primary advisor: Prof. Lei Li)

2023.9.4 -- present, B.S. in Mathematics, Central China Normal University

Kewei XIONG is a Ph.D. student in Life Science (scientific computational concentration) at Wang Lab. He received his bachelor's degree from Central China Normal University. His current research interest is on single-cell algorithm development for cancer and gene regulation.


Xuyi LIU

Xuyi Liu (劉旭一)

PhD student (Primary advisor: Prof. Xiaoguang LEI)

2024.9.4 -- present, M.S. in Medicinal Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica

Xuyi Liu is a Ph.D. student in Life Science (joint program with Shen Zhen Bay Lab, Professor Xiaoguang LEI) at Wang Lab. She earned her bachelor's degree in Medicinal Chemistry from China Pharmaceutical University in 2019 and completed her master's degree in Medicinal Chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, she served as a research assistant in Professor Lei's lab. Her current research focuses on the discovery of small-molecule drugs.


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