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

Ellie Kim

PhD student, joined July 2026

  • BSc, UT Auxtin, US

Jingqing (Jason) Hu

Research assistant, started Feb 2024

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

Qiaohan Xu

DBMI master student, started Oct 2025

  • BSc, Reed College, US

Xinyi (Cindy) Ren

DBMI master student, started Oct 2025

  • BSc/MSc, JHU, US

Zhaogu (Andy) Sun

DBMI master student, started Oct 2025

  • BSc, UCSD, US


Past Members

Postdocs and staff scientists

  • Qian (Alvin) Qin (2024-2026). Staff scientist → Collaborator/scientist at BWH → Professor in WHU, China
  • Yan Gao (2024-2026). Staff scientist → Professor in HIT, China
  • 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
  • Li Song (2021-2022). Postdoc → Assistant professor in Dartmouth College

Harvard master students

Intern and visiting students

  • Yifei Wang (2026). Intern master student in Yale.
  • Daniel Liu (2023). Intern undergraduate student in UCLA →→ Anthropic
  • Alberto Zeni (2023). Visiting student → collaborator → AMD
  • Haowen Zhang (2019-2022). Intern PhD student in GaTech → collaborator → Software engineer at Google