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About Jiyang Yu

Dr. Jiyang Yu earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, China in 2006. He trained in Dr. Andrea Califano’s laboratory at Columbia University 2008–2012 and earned his PhD degree in Biomedical Informatics. His studies were focused on integrating functional genomics with systems biology to discover drivers and therapeutic targets of human malignancies. After his PhD training, Dr. Yu joined Pfizer Oncology as a senior scientist to work on cancer precision medicine. In November 2016, Dr. Yu joined St. Jude as faculty in the Department of Computational Biology where he continues to pursue his passion for perfecting translational systems biology approaches to developing cancer treatment.

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Meet the team

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    Sheetal Bhatara, MS

    Associate Scientist

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    Shanshan Bradford, PhD

    Computational Research Scientist

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    Amy Gong, MS

    Lead Researcher

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    Siarhei Hladyshau, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Qiqi Jin, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Song-Eun Lim

    PhD Student

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    Chun-Yang (John) Lin, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Zhenglong Liu, PhD

    Scientist

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    Alex (ChengHuan) Liu, PhD

    Bioinformatics Research Scientist

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    Jingjing Liu, PhD

    Sr Computational Research Scientist

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    Qingfei Pan, PhD

    Lead Computational Research Scientist

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    Vishal Rana, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Noemi Reyes

    PhD Student

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    Amelia Schroeder, PhD

    Sr. Computational Research Scientist

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    Yanhong Wu, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Zhen Xie

    PhD Student

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    Xu Yang, PhD

    Sr. Computational Research Scientist

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    Jiyuan Yang, PhD

    Sr. Computational Research Scientist

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    Xiangyu (Jacky) Yao, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

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    Honglei Zhou, PhD

    Staff Software Engineer

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    Jiayu Zhou, MS

    Software Engineer

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    Mingrui Zhu, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lab Alumni

Jemil Ahmed, PhD

  • Role: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Tenure: March 2023-May 2025

Raghurandan Avula

  • Role: POE Student
  • Tenure: 2019
  • Post-lab experience: MD/PhD student at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Yogesh Dhungana, PhD

  • Role: PhD Student
  • Tenure: July 2021-October 2025
  • Post-lab experience: Postdoctoral Research Associate, St. Jude
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Liang Ding

  • Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
  • Tenure: December 2018-September 2022
  • Post-lab experience: Bioinformatics Scientist, Spatial Genomics, Inc.
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Xinran (Sherry) Dong, PhD

  • Role: Visiting Scientist
  • Tenure: 2018-2019
  • Post-lab experience: PI at Children’s Hospital of Fudan University

Xin Huang

  • Role: Garwood Fellowship Endowed Postdoc
  • Tenure: May 2019 - May 2023
  • Post-lab experience: PI at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Alireza Khatamian, PhD

  • Role: Senior Software Engineer
  • Tenure: 2017-2018
  • Post-lab experience: Sr. Data Engineer, Predictive Modeling at Carvana
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Songjian Lu

  • Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
  • Tenure: September 2022-June 2025

Akhilesh Mishra, PhD

  • Role: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Tenure: November 2023-October 2024
  • Post-lab experience: Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Ram Vinay Pandey

  • Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
  • Tenure: July 2021-July 2022
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Chenxi (Tracy) Qian, MS

  • Role: System Immunology Specialist
  • Tenure: 2018-2020
  • Post-lab experience: Associate Consultant at Eli Lilly China
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Isabel Risch

  • Role: Systems Immunology Specialist
  • Tenure: June 2020-July 2022
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Hao Shi

  • Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
  • Tenure: January 2020 - October 2022
  • Post-lab experience: Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

João (Jimmy) Veloso

  • Role: Student
  • Tenure: 2019-2020
  • Post-lab experience: PhD student at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Qinrui Wang, PhD

  • Role: Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Tenure: 2020-2021
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Yao Xue, MD

  • Role: Visiting Scientist
  • Tenure: January 2024-February 2025
  • Post-lab experience: Pediatrician at Nanjing Children's Hospital

Lei Yan

  • Role: Sr. Bioinformatics Software Engineer
  • Tenure: September 2021-November 2024
  • Post-lab experience: Information Technology Manager at Libra

Koo-Kiu Yan

  • Role: Lead Computational Research Scientist
  • Tenure: May 2017 – Nov 2025
  • Post-lab experience: Lead Computational Research Scientist at BMTCT, St. Jude

Life in the Yu Lab

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