former group members
Former graduate students
Ph.D. students
- Simon Weon-Sang Ro (Ph.D. 2005, University of Alberta) Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
- Ligia Mateiu (Ph.D. 2006, University of Alberta) Bioinformatics Team Leader, VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium.
- Karen Cranston (Ph.D. 2007, University of Alberta) Team Leader, CanDIG
- Ying Wang (Ph.D. 2009, University of California, Davis)
- Sneha Chakraborty (Ph.D. 2023, University of California, Davis) Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. students (co-supervisor)
- Kanokkan Bumroongkit (Ph.D. 2008, Chiang Mai University, co-supervisor) Assistant Professor, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
- Chi Zhang (Ph.D. 2012, Chinese Academy of Sciences)(visiting CAS student 2010-2012) Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing, China.
- Rattanasak Wongkomonched (Ph.D. 2020, Chiang Mai University, co-supervisor)
- Jiansi Gao (Ph.D. 2022, University of California, Davis, co-supervisor) Postdoctoral Researcher, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle.
M.S. students
- Huiyu Sun (M.S., 2016, University of California Davis) Clinical Data Scientist, Gilead Inc.
- Christina Fetterman (M.Sc. 2004, University of Alberta)
- Bixia Ji (M.S. 2000 [incomplete], SUNY Stony Brook) Senior Software Engineer, Broadcom, Inc.
Former postdocs
- XueJun Qin (Postdoc 1999-2001) Biostatistician, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University
- Jeff Reeve (Postdoc 2000-2005) Team Leader, Computational Biology and Biostatistics, Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta
- Greg Wilson (Postdoc 2001-2003) Wildlife Ecologist, Parks Canada
- Adam Leache (Postdoc 2008-2010) Professor, Department of Biology, University of Washington
- Badri Padhukasahasram (Postdoc 2010-2012) Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
- Anna Guan (Postdoc 2011-2013) Project Manager, 23andMe