Our Team

Meet the Gao Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.

Principal Investigator

Ruli Gao, PhD

Assistant Professor
Center for Cancer Genomics, Lurie Cancer Center
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

ruli.gao( at )northwestern.edu
312-503-3796

MS, Statistics, University of Florida
PhD, Genetics and Genomics, University of Florida
Co-Teaching: DGP485 - Data Science for Biomedical Researchers
Co-Teaching: DGP486 - Advanced Bioinformatics (Genome Informatics)

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Postdoc Fellows

Yueying He, PhD

Bioinformatic Postdoc

yueying.he( at )northwestern.edu

Dr. Yueying He is a postdoc in bioinformatics, with a background in deep learning and mathematical algorithms.

Lina Lu, PhD

Bioinformatic Postdoc

lina.lu( at )northwestern.edu

Dr. Lina Lu is a postdoctoral fellow in bioinformatics, with a background in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Cheng-Kai Shiau, PhD

Bioinformatic Postdoc

chengkai.shiau( at )northwestern.edu

Dr. Cheng-Kai Shiau is a postdoc in bioinformatics, with a background in bioinformatic tool development.

Graduate Students

Timothy Pan

PhD student, Driskill Graduate Program

timothy.pan( at )northwestern.edu

Tim is interested in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with B.S. in Biochemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Summer Students

Anh Nguyen

ResearchSTAR summer intern

Research Staff

Minhua Wang, PhD

Lab Manager

minhua.wang( at )northwestern.edu