People

Lingfei Wang

Assistant Professor

Lingfei received his B.Sc. from Nanjing University and Ph.D. from Lancaster University, studying how the universe was born in the paradigm called “inflation”. Lingfei then switched to computational biology to develop new methods to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs) in his postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Out of work, Lingfei loves spending time with his family, cooking, computer games, and casual sports. [CV]

Matthew W. Funk

Graduate Student

Matthew is a Ph.D. student who started his program in 2024. He is originally from Colorado and graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Colorado State University in 2022 and an M.S. in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan in 2024. Matthew was originally involved in wet lab work before switching to computational work and studying expansion of genetic regions in Drosophila spp. and population genetics in wolves and domestic dogs. His project involves studying how chromatin accessibility information can be incorporated into GRN inference. In his spare time, Matthew enjoys running, chess, geography, aquariums, and watching YouTube videos.

Former Rotation Graduate Students

• Zixuan Ye (2024)

Former Research Associates

• Yuhe Wang (2024-2025)

Former Undergraduate Interns

• Jiaming Huang (2024)