Group Members

Heng Li

Associate Professor, started Oct 2018. Email: hli@jimmy.harvard.edu

Ying Zhou

Staff scientist, joined Oct 2022

Ahsan Sanaullah

Staff scientist, joined March 2026

Neng Huang

Postdoc, started March 2023

Jim Shaw

Postdoc, started September 2024

Maximillian Marin

Postdoc, started September 2024

Jakob Heinz

PhD student (co-mentored with Matthew Meyerson), joined August 2024

Megan Khiet Le

PhD student (co-mentored with Bonnie Berger), joined June 2024

Jingqing (Jason) Hu

Research assistant, started Feb 2024

  • Master, Harvard Medical School, US
  • BSc, Boston College, US


Past Members

  • Qian (Alvin) Qin (2024-2026). Staff scientist → Collaborator/scientist at BWH → Assistant professor in WHU, China
  • Yan Gao (2024-2026). Staff scientist → Assistant professor in HIT, China
  • Haoyang Hu (2025). Research associate → PhD student at University of Chicago
  • Siying (Avon) Yang (2024-2025). DBMI master student → PhD student in Harvard
  • Yujie Guo (2022-2024). DBMI master student → PhD student in Harvard BIG
  • Haoyu Cheng (2019-2024). Postdoc → Assistant professor in Yale
  • Xiaowen Feng (2019-2024). Postdoc → Oxford Nanopore NY
  • Justin Chu (2020-2024). Postdoc →→ Principal bioinformatics software engineer at Roche
  • Kar-Tong Tan (2020-2024). Harvard PhD student (co-mentored) → postdoc → Assistant professor in NUS, Singapore
  • Daniel Liu (2023). Intern undergraduate student in UCLA →→ Anthropic
  • Yidan Ma (2022-2023). HSPH master student → Analysis Group Boston
  • Alberto Zeni (2023). Visiting student → collaborator → AMD
  • Yujie (York) Zhang (2021-2023). HSPH master student → PhD student in UCSF
  • Li Song (2021-2022). Postdoc → Assistant professor in Dartmouth College
  • Haowen Zhang (2019-2022). Intern PhD student in GaTech → collaborator → Software engineer at Google
  • Yaxin Yang (2021). Visiting undergraduate student in University of Rochester → PhD candidate in UIUC
  • Jiazhen (Jojo) Rong (2019-2021). DBMI master student → PhD student in UPenn