People

Principal Investigator

Daifeng Wang, Ph.D. [CV]
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences (affiliate)
Director of Data Science Core & Investigator
Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
E-mail

Lab Members

Scientists and Postdoctoral Associates

Shuang Liu, Ph.D. (Data Scientist III, Jul. 2019 – )
Pramod Chandrashekar, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sep. 2020 – )
Chirag Gupta, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jan. 2021 – )
Chenfeng He, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Jan. 2021 – )
Kalpana Hanthanan Arachchilage, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nov. 2021 – )
Xiang Huang, Ph.D. (Scientist II, Sep. 2022 – )
Huazhang Li, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nov. 2022 – )
Rob Olson, Ph.D. (Research Engineer, Sep. 2022 – )

Ph.D. Students

Ting Jin (Ph.D. candidate, Biomedical Data Science, Fall 2017 – Present)
Saniya Khullar (Ph.D. candidate & NLM CIBM fellow, Biomedical Data Science, Spring 2020 – Present)
Sayali Alatkar (Ph.D. student, Computer Sciences, Summer 2021 – Present)
Noah Cohen Kalafut (Ph.D. student, Computer Sciences, Summer 2021 – Present)
Jie Sheng (Ph.D. student, Biomedical Data Science, Fall 2022 – Present)
Jerome Choi (rotation Ph.D. student, Population Health Science, Fall 2022)

Master’s Students

Undergraduate students

Jonathan Bryan (Neurobiology, Fall 2020 -)
Athan Li (Computer Sciences, Fall 2022 -)

Alumni (Name, Degree, Years, Next Position)

Ph.D. students

  • Nam Nguyen, Ph.D. in Computer Science (SUNY – Stony Brook), 2017-2021, Lane Fellow in Department of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Krittisak Chaiyakul, rotation Ph.D. student, 2021, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Master’s students

  • Jie Sheng, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics and Biostatistician, 2020-2022, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Chen Yang, M.S. in Mathematics, 2021-2022, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
  • Jiawei Huang, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2020-2021, Ph.D. student in College of Business, University of Cincinnati
  • Yudi Mu, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2020-2021, Ph.D. student in Biostatistics, University of California, Riverside
  • Mufang Yin, M.S. in Data Science of Statistics, 2019-2020, Ph.D. student in Statistics, Rutgers University

Undergraduate students

  • Peter Rehani, Integrative Biology, 2019 – 2020, Assistant System Programmer in Morgridge Institute for Research
  • Marin Suzuki, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Dhruv Gupta, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Julia Paciorek, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Arjun Malik, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Isabella Escalante, Neurobiology, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Boya Zhang, Mathematics, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2021-2022
  • Sahas Kumar Dandapantula, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2020-2021
  • Difei Kang, Computer Sciences, Undergraduate Research Scholar Program 2020-2021