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	Principal investigator Sheng Zhong Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Computational Science & Engineering, Biophysics, Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Contact Info
	Dr. Zhong obtained a B.S. from School of Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics from Beijing University, China. From 2001 to 2004 he did his Ph.D. research with Professor Wing Wong in Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University, with a Ph.D. minor in Molecular Biology. From 2004 to 2005 he was an exchange student scholar at Department of Statistics and BioX Center at Stanford University. He joined University of Illinois as an assistant professor in 2005. He was elected as a Faculty Fellow of National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 2007. He received Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 2008, NSF CAREER Award in 2009.
	Postdoc associate Shu Xiao, Department of Bioengineering Dr. Xiao did PhD research on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, China. She is working on experimental work regarding pluripotent cells. Graduate student Dan Xie, Department of Bioengineering Dan received his B.S in Electronic Engineering and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. He is interested in comparative genomics, biological networks and complex biological system. Chieh-Chun Chen, Department of Bioengineering Chieh-Chun obtained her B.B.A. and M.B.A. in Information Management from National Taiwan University. Her current areas of interest include gene clustering, regulatory network inference and comparative genomics. Xiaoyi Cao, Biophysics Program Xiaoyi received his B.S. in biological science from Tsinghua University. His research interest includes single-cell experimental technologies and modeling of gene regulation. Undergraduate student Palak Doshi, Department of Bioengineering Mingxun Wang, Department of Computer Science Meagan Musselman, Department of Bioengineering

2006 BBQ at Hessel Park

2007 house warming party at Zhong's

2007 early spring group photos

    Previous group members, previous roles, current affiliations:
    Zhewen Fan, master student, 2005-2006, PhD student at University of Illinois.
    Guixian Lin, graduate researcher, 2005-2006, Scientist at SAS.
   Jun Cai, Postdoc, 2006-2008, Investigator at Beijing Institute of Genomics Chinese Academy of Sciences.
    David Unger, PhD student, 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
    Jie Chou, undergrad researcher, 2006-2008, PhD student at Rice University.
    Yanen Li, master student, 2007-2009, PhD student at University of Illinois.
    Xin He, graduate researcher, 2006-2009, Postdoc researcher at UCSF.
    Feng Hong, graduate researcher, 2007-2009, Postdoc researcher at Harvard University.
    William T. Leinweber, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009, CEO, SongAlive
    Kimberly Vlcek, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009, Microsoft Research
    Dacheng Xie, undergraduate researcher, 2007-2009.