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
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