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.
Meet the Team
Jiyang Yu, PhD
Principal Investigator
- Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
- Interim Chair, Department of Computational Biology
- Jemil Ahmed, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Sheetal Bhatara, MS
- Senior Researcher
- Yogesh Dhungana, MS
- Graduate Student
- Siarhei Hladyshau, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Song-Eun Lim
- Student
- Jingjing Liu, PhD
- Sr Computational Research Scientist
- Songjian Lu
- Sr Computational Research Scientist
- Akhilesh Mishra, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Qingfei Pan, PhD
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Zhen Xie
- Graduate Student
- Yao Xue, PhD
- Visiting Scientist
- Lei Yan, MS
- Sr. Bioinformatics Software Engineer
- Koon-Kiu Yan, PhD
- Sr. Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Xu Yang, PhD
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Jiyuan Yang, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Xiangyu (Jacky) Yao, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Shanshan Yu, PhD
- Lead Researcher
- Jiayu Zhou
- Software Engineer
- Mingrui Zhu, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Lab Alumni
Raghurandan Avula
- Role: POE Student
- Tenure: 2019
- Post-lab experience: MD/PhD student at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Liang Ding
- Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Tenure: December 2018-September 2022
- Post-lab experience: Bioinformatics Scientist, Spatial Genomics, Inc.
Xinran (Sherry) Dong, PhD
- Role: Visiting Scientist
- Tenure: 2018-2019
- Post-lab experience: PI at Children’s Hospital of Fudan University
Alireza Khatamian, PhD
- Role: Senior Software Engineer
- Tenure: 2017-2018
- Post-lab experience: Sr. Data Engineer, Predictive Modeling at Carvana
Juichang (David) Lu
- Role: Summer Intern
- Tenure: 2017
- Post-lab experience: Senior Software Engineer at Hubspot
Ram Vinay Pandey
- Role: Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Tenure: July 2021-July 2022
Chenxi (Tracy) Qian, MS
- Role: System Immunology Specialist
- Tenure: 2018-2020
- Post-lab experience: Associate Consultant at Eli Lilly China
Isabel Risch
- Role: Systems Immunology Specialist
- Tenure: June 2020-July 2022
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
Qinrui Wang, PhD
- Role: Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Tenure: 2020-2021
Xinge (Sarah) Wang, MS
- Role: Summer Intern
- Tenure: 2019
- Post-lab experience: Graduate student at University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonathan Zhang
- Role: Summer Intern
- Tenure: 2019
- Post-lab experience: Undergratuate at U Penn
Mingyue (Luna) Zhang
- Role: Summer Intern
- Tenure: 2019
- Post-lab experience: Data Scientist at Novelis
