Group Members

Alon Keinan Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
and Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics

Alon Keinan studies how human genetic variation has arisen from evolutionary history. His research focuses on elucidating the history of modern human populations and on developing computational methods for searching for genes important in human biology. With a background in computer science and statistics, Keinan develops theoretical tools and applies them to genomic data sets, bridging theoretical population genetics and empirical studies.

Kaixiong Ye Postdoc  | Biological Statistics and Computational Biology

Kaixiong is in general interested in Human Population Genomics and Functional Genomics. His research is trying to understand the role of functional genetic variants, especially regulatory variants, in both human evolution and health. 
 

Alexandre Lussier Postdoc  | Biological Statistics and Computational Biology

Alex joined the group in January 2018 after completing his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in Statistical and Population Genomics, as well as the integration of multi-omic datasets. His research currrently focuses on the role of X-chromosome variation in human health and disease. 
 

Lauren Lo Programmer | Computer Science

Lauren’s research interests include statistical and computational approaches to large-scale disease analysis, X chromosome association studies, and software development. 

Previous Members

Leonardo Arbiza  Research Associate  | Biological Statistics and Computational Biology

Leo's research interests include: molecular evolution, the causes and implications of its heterogeneous nature in genomes and populations, human demography, and natural selection.

Feng Gao  Graduate Student | Computational Biology

Feng's research interests include demographic history modeling, association and interaction studies of autosomes and X chromosomes, and software development.

Edward Li Undergraduate Researcher | Computer Science

Edward is interested in the effects of multinucleotide mutation, population genetics in general, and software development.

Andrea Slavney Graduate Student | Genetics, Genomics & Development

Andrea is interested in the dynamics and history of X chromosome evolution, and human evolution in general.

Yuhuan Qiu Undergraduate Researcher | Computer Science

Yuhuan is interested in X chromosome association analysis and software development.

Liang Zhang Undergraduate Researcher  | Biometry & Statistics, Information Science

Liang is interested statistical data mining, chromsome X-Wide association analysis, and software development.
 

Rosa Ma Undergraduate Researcher | Biological Sciences