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Principle Investigator


Jingwen Yan, Ph.D. (Curriculum Vitae)

Associate Professor
Program director, Bioinformatics
📧 jingyan@iu.edu

Dr. Jingwen Yan is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI). Her research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning, brain imaging genomics and systems biology, and the applications in Alzheimer’s and other complex diseases.

PhD Students

Haoyuan Liu

started Aug 2025
📧 haoyliu@iu.edu

  • Master of Applied Statistics, Fudan University
  • BS in Statistics, Shanghai Normal University

Research interest:Disease progression modeling, generative AI

Nachuan Du

started Aug 2025
📧 dun@iu.edu

  • MS in Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University
  • BS in Pharmacy, Fudan University

Research interest:Brain aging, Computational Omics, Medical Imaging

Tianchuan Gao

started Aug 2023
📧 tg11@iu.edu

  • MS in Biostatistics, Columbia University
  • BS in Applied Mathematics, Syracuse University

Research interest:Disease progression profiling, machine learning, scRNA-seq Analysis

Neda Emami

started Jan 2024
📧 nemami@iu.edu

  • MS in Biomedical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Research interest:Deep learning, DNA-protein binding

Yurika Upadhyaya

started Aug 2023
📧 yupadhya@iu.edu

  • MS in Bioinformatics, Indiana University Indianapolis

Research interest:Bioinformatics, multi-omics integration, functional genomics

Mingzhao Tong (Co-mentor with Dr. Shiaofen Fang)

started Aug 2024
📧 tongming@iu.edu

  • BS in Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University

Research interest:Machine learning, algorithm, disease progression modeling

Postdoc fellows

Yaxuan Cui

started Nov. 2025
📧 cuiyaxu@iu.edu

  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Tsukuba
  • MS in Educational Technology, Tianjin Normal University
  • BS in Software Engineering, Tianjin Normal University

Research interest:deep learning, spatial transcriptomics, scRNA-Seq

Master Students

Fahad Mehfooz

started Aug 2023
📧 fmehfooz@iu.edu

Research interest:

Shreya Purushottam Ekande

started Aug 2023
📧 spekande@iu.edu

Soumya Yennapureddy

started Jan 2023
📧 syennapu@iu.edu

Alumni

Yurika Upadhyaya@Eli Lilly Master student 2017-2019
Priyanka Gorijala@University of Washington St Luis (Bioinforamtician) Master student 2018-2020
Danai Chasioti@Biogen (research scientist) PhD student 2018-2022
Bing He@Harvard Medical School (postdoc) PhD student 2019-2024
Linhui Xie@Yale School of Medicine (postdoc) PhD student 2018-2024
Pradeep Varathan Pugalenthi@Eli Lilly (research advisor) PhD student 2020-2024




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