People

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Lingfei Wang 王凌飞

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]

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Chen Fu

Senior Research Scientist (joint with Logan Lab)

Chen Fu is a computational biologist with extensive experience in single-cell and multi-omics data analysis, focusing on how genetic variation shapes cellular states in the human brain. His work integrates transcriptomic, proteomic, and somatic mutation data to uncover gene regulatory programs and disease-associated molecular mechanisms. He has led large-scale analyses involving hundreds of thousands of single cells and developed reproducible pipelines using both HPC and cloud-based platforms. Chen is currently seeking positions as a research scientist, senior computational biologist, or tenure-track/research-track faculty, where he can contribute to projects involving multi-omics integration, gene regulation, and the application of machine learning or AI methods to complex biological systems.

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Matthew W. Funk

PhD 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.

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Yu-Chen Liu

Postdoc

Yu-Chen received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Fudan University, where he continued his postdoctoral research on quantum kinetic theory for Dirac fermions in curved spacetime. In 2023, he transitioned into the field of computational biology, applying advanced deep learning techniques to study single-cell transcriptomics during his postdoctoral work at Boston University. Yu-Chen is interested in uncovering the mechanisms underlying dynamic biological processes and discovering hidden patterns within large-scale biological data. On weekends, he enjoys playing badminton with friends.

Former Rotation PhD Students

  • Matthew W. Funk (2024). Current position: PhD student with us
  • Zixuan Ye (2024). Current position: PhD student at UMass Chan Medical School

Former Research Associates

  • Yuhe Wang (2024-2025). Current position: Admitted PhD student at University of California, Irvine

Former Undergraduate Interns

  • Jiaming Huang (2024). Current position: MSc student at Harvard University