2021-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 2019, visiting PhD student from Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Current Members
Zicheng Wang
2021-Present Zicheng is a second-year Master’s student in the Department of Biostatistics (SM CBQG program). His current research interest is polygenic risk predictions, cross-trait GWAS analysis, and RNA-Seq analysis. He joined the Liang Lab in February 2021.
Xikun Han
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2021 – present. Xikun is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, mentored by Dr. Liang. Prior to joining the lab, Xikun earned his Ph.D. in statistical genetics from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute … Continue reading “Xikun Han”
Yingzhe Zhang
2021-Present: Master student of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Yingzhe is a second-year Master student of Epidemiology, concentrating on psychiatric epidemiology. Her research interests mainly focus on exploring the causal path of mental disorders and child behavioral problems. She works on the genetic linkage between inflammation biomarkers and mental disorders.
Huan Yun
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2022 – present: postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Prior to joining Dr. Liang’s lab, Huan obtained her Ph.D. degree in nutritional epidemiology from Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Xu … Continue reading “Huan Yun”
Jordan Rossen
2020-Present Jordan is a PhD student in the Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics track of the Epidemiology PhD program at HSPH. He is interested in the development of methods for polygenic risk prediction in Non-European populations. Before HSPH, Jordan’s research focused on data processing methodology for high-throughput cancer genomics datasets.
Tingyi Cao
2020-present Tingyi is a second year SM Student in the Department of Biostatistics. Her research interests are in statistical genetics.
Wenyi Wang
Wenyi is a master’s of science student in Biostatistics (SM60 Program). Her research interest includes risk prediction and Bayesian inference.
Jie (Jack) Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
2020-present. Jack is a research fellow in the Saxena Lab in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He joined my research group as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2020 when he was a research fellow in the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and … Continue reading “Jie (Jack) Hu, M.D., Ph.D.”
Marius Weidmann
2022-Present Marius is a second-year SM student in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics at the Department of Biostatistics. His research focuses on method development for polygenic risk prediction and utilizing cross-trait information for increased model accuracy.
