The People with passion for scientific inquiry

Meet our team

We are united by curiosity, creativity, optimism, collaboration, and friendship.

Program Leadership

Daniel J. Siegwart, Ph.D.

Professor and Director

Lehigh University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Tokyo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lukas Farbiak, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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Sumanta Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Instructor

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Pratima Basak, Ph.D.

Laboratory Manager

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Jing Liu, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

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Laytonique Bacon

Senior Administrative Assistant

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Program Scientists

Gabriela Ayala Pazzi

Graduate Student

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Alexis Pacheco Benitez

Graduate Student

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Xiaoyan Bian

Graduate Student

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Zexiang Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Yaou Duan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Erick Guerrero

Graduate Student

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Haixia He

Research Associate

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Lindsay Hill, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical Doctor, Postdoctoral Researcher

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Hsi-Chien Huang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Michaela Jeong, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Lisa Kim

Graduate Student

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Minjeong Kim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Minwoo Kim

Graduate Student

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Sang Lee, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Tsung-Ying Lee

Graduate Student

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William Miller

Graduate Student

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Stephen Moore

Graduate Student

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Priyanka Patel

Research Associate

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Clarissa Pham

MD/PhD Student

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Joshua Robinson

Graduate Student

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Julien Santelli, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Sandhya Sattiraju

Research Associate

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Eunice Song

Graduate Student

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Yehui Sun

Graduate Student

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Yun-Chieh Sung, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Zeru Tian, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Amogh Vaidya

Graduate Student

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Vaidehi Patel

Graduate Student

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Xu Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Jingwen Wei, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Shiying Wu

Graduate Student

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Yufen Xiao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Victoria Yang

Graduate Student

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Kohki Yamada

Graduate Student

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Chuhan Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Fangyu Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Lab Alumni

  • Jing Hao, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2012 – 2014
    • Current position: Assistant Professor, George Fox University
  • Denise Bamberger
    • Visiting graduate student from Johannes Gutenberg–University Mainz, Germany, 2015
    • Current position: Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Atsushi Nagai, Ph.D.
    • Visiting professor, 2015
    • Former Position: Assistant Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
    • Current position: Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Lian Xue, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2014 – 2015
  • Victor Tieu
    • SURF student, summer 2015
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of California at Berkeley
    • Current position: Graduate student, Stanford University
  • John Norman
    • High school research student, summer 2015
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, Texas A&M
  • Karina Kinghorn
    • Green Fellow and SURF student, 2016
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of Texas at Dallas
    • Current position: Graduate student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Siva Venigalla
    • Khorana Bose scholar, summer 2016
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
    • Current position: Graduate student, UT Southwestern Medical Center
  • Bethanie Abram
    • STARS high school research student, summer 2016
    • Former position: High school student, Irving High School
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, Texas A&M
  • Gino Occhialini
    • QP SURF student, summer 2016
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of Texas at Dallas
    • Current position: Graduate student, MIT
  • Sergio Barrios
    • SURF BUILD Scholar, summer 2016
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of Texas at El Paso
    • Current position: Graduate student, Rice University
  • Jonathan Minnig
    • Green Fellow and Research Technician, 2015 – 2016
    • Current position: Research Technician, UT Southwestern
  • Yunfeng Yan, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2012 – 2016
    • Current position: Professor, Zhejiang University of Technology
  • Kels Kaiser
    • Research Technician, 2016 – 2017
    • Current position: Clinical Research Coordinator, Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern
  • Petra Kos, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2014 – 2018
    • Current position: Life Science Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting
  • Jason Miller, Ph.D.
    • Graduate student, 2012 – 2018
    • Current position: Project Manager, OncoNano
  • Sussana Elkassih, Ph.D.
    • Graduate student, 2013 – 2018
  • Shanrong Shu, M.D.
    • Visiting Professor, 2018 – 2019
    • Current position: Professor, Jinan University
  • Nathaniel Hwang, Ph.D.
    • Visiting Professor, 2018 – 2019
    • Current position: Professor, Seoul National University
  • Hu Xiong, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2014 – 2018
    • Current position: Professor, Nankai University
  • Kejin Zhou, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, Instructor, 2012 – 2020
    • Former position: Principal Scientist, Poseida Therapeutics
    • Current position:
  • Melissa Coquelin
    • Former position: ReCode Therapeutics
    • Current position:
  • Martha Marquez Ramirez
    • SURF student / Amgen Scholar, 2019
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of California, Berkeley
    • Current position: Graduate student, San Francisco State University
  • Tina Lin
    • Green Fellow, 2020
    • Former position: Undergraduate student, University of Texas at Dallas
    • Current position: Graduate student, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Domenico Orlando, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2019 – 2020
    • Current position: DiaSorin
  • Rhapsede Nolden
    • Research Technician, 2019 – 2020
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, Texas A&M
  • Xueliang Yu, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2018 – 2020
    • Current position:
  • Junyu Gong, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2020
    • Current position: ReCode Therapeutics
  • Tuo Wei, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2017 – 2021
    • Current position: Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology, Beijing
  • Qiang Cheng, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2017 – 2021
    • Current position: Professor, Peking University
  • Shuai Liu, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2017 – 2021
    • Current position: Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Madeline Brown
    • SURF student / Amgen Scholar, 2022
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, University of California, San Diego
  • Sang Lee, Ph.D
    • Graduate student, 2017 – 2022
    • Current position: Sanofi
  • Lindsay Johnson, Ph.D.
    • Graduate student, 2017 – 2022
    • Current position: Gilead
  • Di Zhang, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2019 – 2023
    • Current position: AskBio
  • Sean Dilliard, Ph.D.
    • Graduate student, 2018 – 2023
    • Current position: Prime Medicine
  • Ester Alvarez Benedicto, Ph.D.
    • Graduate student, 2018 – 2023
    • Current position: Metagenomi
  • Yangyang Yang, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc, 2023 – 2023
    • Current position: Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Isaac Quinonez
    • Green Fellow, 2023
    • Current position: Undergraduate student, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Xizhen Lian, Ph.D.
    • Postdoc,
    • Current position: Johns Hopkins University