Wei Wei, Ph.D. Principal Investigator

Dr. Wei Wei is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). He earned his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and his M.S. degree from the UC - San Diego. Dr. Wei then went on to obtain his Ph.D. from Caltech, where he was the sole recipient of the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize in 2014 – the highest honor bestowed upon a Caltech Ph.D. graduate. Following his Ph.D., Dr. Wei joined the UCLA School of Medicine as a research faculty member. In 2018, he transitioned to ISB as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment (CARE) Distinguished Researchers Award in 2019.

Dr. Wei has been serving as either director or project lead in various nationwide cancer research consortium-funded projects. Some of these initiatives include the NCI-funded ISB/UCLA Physical Sciences in Oncology Program (PS-OP), ISB/UW Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program, ISB/UCLA Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) program, and ISB/Yale/UCLA Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC) program.

Xiaowei Yan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist

Ph.D. Mathematics and Computer Sciences
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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Hanjun Cheng, Ph.D.
Research Scientist & ​Fund Manager 

Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S. Chemistry, Nanjing University

Yin Tang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist 

Ph.D. Biology,  Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B. Eng. Bioengineering, Huazhong Agricultural University
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Jianjun Jiang, Ph.D.
​Research Scientist 

Ph.D. Genetics 
Chinese Academy of Sciences & The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Hui-Yu Chuang, Ph.D.
​Postdoctoral Fellow 

Ph.D. Biomedical Science and Engineering
​National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Juho Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow 

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chunmei Liu, Ph.D.
​Bioinformatics Scientist 

 Ph.D. Bioinformatics and Genetics
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiaoyang Ye, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow 

Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
​Peking University

Jeremy Johnson
​Senior Executive Assistant

Alumni:

   Postdocs & Graduate Students:

• Xiang Lu (postdoc fellow), currently  Assistant Professor, Sichuan Agricultural University, China.
• Shiqun Shao (postdoc fellow), currently Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University, China.
• Li Mo (graduate researcher), currently at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

   
​   Undergraduate Students:

• Zora Yang
• Pu Zeng
• Helen Liang
• Marcus Bintz
• Stephen To
• Varun Agarwal
• Eunice Park
• Joa Yun
• ​Lan Zheng
• ​Saanvi Mehrotra