Lab Members

Yi Yin, PhD

Yi Yin, PhD
Title: Principal Investigator
Email: yiyin at mednet dot ucla dot edu
B.S. in Biotechnology, Beijing Normal University (2009)
M.S. in Statistical Science, Duke University (2015)
        --- Advisor: Sayan Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG), Duke University (2015)
        --- Advisor: Tom Petes, Ph.D.
Postdoc in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University (2016)
        --- Advisor: Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Postdoc in Genome Sciences, University of Washington (2020)
        --- Advisor: Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D.
Originally from Qingdao, China
ORCID: 0000-0003-0963-2672
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Peter Chovanec, PhD

Peter Chovanec, PhD
Title: Project Scientist
Email: chovanec at g dot ucla dot edu
B.S. in Genetics, University of York (2014)
Ph.D. in Immunology and nuclear dynamics, University of Cambridge (2019)
        --- Advisor: Anne Corcoran, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Caltech (2020)
        --- Advisor: Mitchell Guttman, Ph.D.
Originally from Slovakia
ORCID: 0000-0001-8066-1893
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Shiyang He, PhD

Shiyang He, PhD
Title: Postdoc
Email: heshiy at g dot ucla dot edu
B.S. in Biology Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, China (2012)
M.S. in Genetics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2015)
Ph.D. in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics, University of California, Riverside (2024)
        --- Advisor: Jernej Murn, Ph.D.
Originally from Guizhou, China
ORCID: 0000-0002-1849-2635
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Ang Li, PhD

Ang Li, PhD
Title: Postdoc
B.S. in Physics (Yuanpei Program), Peking University, China (2013)
Research Fellow in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University (2014–2016)
        --- Advisor: Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard University (2026)
        --- Advisor: Michael Springer, Ph.D.
Originally from Heilongjiang, China
ORCID: 0000-0003-3933-588X
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Trevor Ridgley

Trevor Ridgley
Title: Ph.D. Candidate
Email: tridgley at ucla dot edu
B.S. in Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics, Statistics Minor, University of California, Santa Cruz (2020)
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioinformatics, University of California, Los Angeles (advanced to candidacy 2022)
Originally from San Mateo, CA
ORCID: 0000-0003-1177-9956

Alumni

Junting Li

Junting Li
Title: Summer Student Researcher
Email: ljtines66 at gmail dot com
Currently: Master of Research (MRes) in Molecular & Cellular Biosciences, Imperial College London
B.S. in Medical Laboratory Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2025)
Originally from Shanghai, China
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Anusha Subramanian

Anusha Subramanian
Title: Undergraduate Researcher
Email: anusha dot subramanian at berkeley dot edu
Currently: Vox Future Perfect Fellow | Contributor at BBC Health
B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, minor in Data Science, UC Berkeley (2022)
Originally from Mumbai, India
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Renee Chang

Renee Chang
Title: High School Researcher
Email: reneechang177 at gmail dot com
Currently: Ph.D. Student at MIT
Walnut High School (2022)
Originally from Diamond Bar, CA
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Past undergraduate assistants

Michelle Ma, Jilai (Leo) Fan, Monica Lu, Stéphane Miaule, Jessica Javaherforoush, Chizaram (Zara) Okeiyi, Marat Zargaryan