The Team

 

Group Members

The Welch Lab has openings for multiple positions, including Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD Student, Bioinformatician, and Software Engineer! (see openings) !

Lab

Joshua Welch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

  • B.S. in Computer Science, B.Mus. in Piano, Ohio University
  • M.S., Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina
  • Postdoctoral Training, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Cindy DeLong

Research Lab Specialist Senior

  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Wake Forest University
  • Postdoctoral training, University of Michigan

Maya Akiva

Undergraduate Researcher (Neuroscience)

Gaurav Gadhvi

Bioinformatician

  • M.S. in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Javid Ghaemmaghami

DCMB PhD Pre-Candidate

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, George Washington University

Yichen Gu

ECE Ph.D. Candidate

  • B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana

Matthew Karikomi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Ph.D. in Mathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology, University of California - Irvine
  • B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University

Justin Kun Lee

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University

Chen Li

DCMB Ph.D. Candidate

  • B.S. in Bioinformatics, University of California - San Diego

Maria Linck

Undergraduate Researcher (Neuroscience)

Jialin Liu

DCMB Ph.D. Candidate

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

Lu Lu

DCMB Ph.D. Candidate (joint with Vibha Lama)

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

Dorzhey Matkhanov

Bioinformatics M.S. Student

  • Bachelors in Business Informatics, HSE University - Moscow

Weizhou Qian

DCMB PhD Candidate

  • M.S. in Biostatistics, University of Michigan

Darian Rashid

Undergraduate Researcher (Neuroscience)

Andrew Robbins

Systems Analyst/Bioinformatics MS Student

  • B.A. in Biochemistry & Music, Case Western Reserve University

Yuxuan Song

DCMB Ph.D. Candidate (joint with Matt O'Meara)

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

Yichen Wang

Bioinformatician

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics, Boston University

Crystal Wen

Bioinformatics Ph.D. Candidate

  • M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of Michigan

Jane Wiesner

Administrative Specialist Associate Healthcare

Mingjia Yao

Bioinformatics Ph.D. Student (joint with Sami Barmada)

  • MS in Biostatistics, University of Californa - Los Angeles

Neil Zhao

Molecular & Cellular Pathology Ph.D. Student (joint with Jonny Sexton)

  • M.S. in Toxicology, University of Michigan

Alumni

Gretchen Lam


Role: M.S. in Data Science, now data scientist

Jaimee Moline


Role: M.S. in Biomedical Engineering

Hojae Lee

2018-2024
Role: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, now Research Scientist at Numenta

April Kriebel

2019-2024
Role: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, now Scientific Research and Communications Specialist at University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute

Renxiang (Alvin) Guan

2023-2024
Role: Electrical and Computer Engineering B.S. Student, now PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Michigan

Albert Hung

2022-2024
Role: Computer Science and Engineering B.S. student, now PhD student in Computer Science at MIT

Chao Gao

2019-2024
Role: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, now Senior Scientist at Abbvie

Jingyi Liu

2022-2023
Role: Neuroscience B.S. Student, now PhD student in Neuroscience at Harvard

Douglas Maldonado-Torres

2022-2023
Role: Bioinformatics M.S. student, now Bioinformatician at Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Joshua Sodicoff

2019-2023
Role: Research Lab Specialist, now PhD student in Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago

Maryam Bagherian, Ph.D.

2021-2022
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher, MIDAS Fellow, now Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UMass Boston

Hengshi Yu

2018-2022
Role: Ph.D. in Biostatistics, now data scientist at Google

Ruohan Liao

2019-2020
Role: Biostatistics MS Student, now PhD student at North Carolina State University

Yuwei Bao

2018-2019
Role: Bioinformatics/CSE MS Student, now PhD student at University of Michigan