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.

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.

Lauren Lo Undergraduate Researcher | Computer Science

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

David Wang Undergraduate Researcher | Computer Science & Biological Sciences

David is interested in computational methods for the analysis of population genetic data in the context of evolution and human health.

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. 
 

Liang Zhang Undergraduate Researcher  | Biometry & Statistics, Information Science

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

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