People

Principal Investigator

Daifeng Wang, Ph.D. [CV]
Associate Professor
H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences (affiliate)
Director of Data Science Core & Investigator
Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Lab Members

Scientists and Postdoctoral Associates

Shuang Liu, Ph.D. (Data Scientist III, Jul. 2019 – )
Pramod Chandrashekar, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Associate, Sep. 2020 – )
Chenfeng He, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Associate & Scientist I, Jan. 2021 -)
Kalpana Hanthanan Arachchilage, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Associate & Scientist I, Nov. 2021 – )
Xiang Huang, Ph.D. (Scientist II, Sep. 2022 – )
Pubudu Kumarage, Ph.D. (Data Scientist, Jul. 2023 – )

Ph.D. students

Jie Sheng (Ph.D. candidate, Biomedical Data Science, Fall 2022 – Present)
Haotian Ma (Ph.D. candidate, Computer Sciences, Fall 2023 – Present)
Xuerou Li (Ph.D. student, Biomedical Data Science, Fall 2026 – Present)

Master’s students

Undergraduate students

Alumni

Scientists & Postdocs

  • Chirag Gupta, 2021-2024, Founder & Chief Scientist in AI for Genomics startup

Ph.D. students

  • Noah Cohen Kalafut, Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, 2025; Senior Research Scientist, SmarterDx
  • Sayali Alatkar, Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, 2025; Postdoc, Stanford University
  • Jerome Choi, Ph.D. in Epidemiology, 2025; Senior Data Scientist, AbbVie
  • Saniya Khullar, Ph.D. in Biomedical Data Science, 2024, Postdoc; Wellcome Sanger Institute & University of Cambridge
  • Ting Jin, Ph.D. in Biomedical Data Science, 2023; Senior Scientist, Merck
  • Nam Nguyen, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2021; Lane Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Master’s students

  • Xuerou Li, M.S. in Biomedical Data Science, 2026; Ph.D. student in Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Ryan Conway Burczak, M.S. in Biomedical Data Science, 2024; Bioinformatics Analyst, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
  • Jie Sheng, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics and Biostatistician, 2022; Ph.D. student in Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Chen Yang, M.S. in Mathematics, 2022; Ph.D. student in Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
  • Jiawei Huang, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2021; Ph.D. student in College of Business, University of Cincinnati
  • Yudi Mu, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2021; Ph.D. student in Biostatistics, University of California, Riverside
  • Mufang Yin, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2020; Ph.D. student in Statistics, Rutgers University

Undergraduate students (who co-authored papers)

  • Peter Rehani, Integrative Biology, 2019-2020, Assistant System Programmer at Morgridge Institute for Research
  • Jonathan Bryan, Neurobiology, 2020-2022, Medical student at UW-Madison SMPH
  • Marin Suzuki, Computer Sciences, 2021-2022
  • Athan Z. Li, Computer Sciences, 2022-2024, Ph.D. student at USC Computer Science