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Zhaolei Zhang
(pronounced jow-lay)

Professor

Donnelly Centre
Banting and Best Dept. of Medical Research (51%)
Dept. of Molecular Genetics (49%)
Dept. of Computer Science

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Room 608, 160 College Street
Tel: (416) 946-0924 (Office) (416)946-0905 (Lab)


Lab Members

Member
Academic background
Projects
PhD Student (Computer Science)
Co-supervised with Prof Xujie Si.
marchine learning
PhD Student (Statistical Sciences)
co-supervised with Prof. Dehan Kong
single cell lineage tracing

Lab Alumni - PhD students
PhD (Molecular Genetics), 2005-2009
Co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer BioSymetrics
PhD (Computer Science), 2005-2010
NEC-labs, Princeton, NJ
PhD (Molecular Genetics), 2007-2011
Associate Professor. UCSF
PhD (Computer Science), 2011-2014
Associate Professor, City University Hong Kong
PhD (Computer Science), 2010-2014
Associate Professor, McGill University
PhD (Computer Science) 2009-2015
Industry
PhD (Computer Science) 2022
Senior Research Investigator, Incyte, USA
PhD (Computer Science) 2022
machine learning, Industry
PhD (Molecular Genetics) 2023, Co-supervised with Prof Mike Wilson
Hospital for Sick Children
PhD (Statistics) 2024, co-supervised with Prof. Dehan Kong
Machine Learning Scientist
Computer Science
Machine Learning Scientist

Lab Alumni - Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr. Yunchen Gong
2006-2008
Bioinformatician at CAGEF
2005-2008
Asst. Professor at University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC)
Dr. Wagied Davids
2006-2009
software developer
2006-2008
Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR)
2007 -2009
Senior Research Associate, Case Western Reserve
2008-2011
Professor, East China Normal University (ECNU)
2011-2012
Investigator at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Dr. Ke Jin
2010-2015
Financial industry, Toronto
2018-2020
Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
2021-2022
Associate Professor, Xi'an Polytechnic University

Lab Alumni - Msc students
Matthew Fagnani
Molecular Genetics, 2005-2007
Molecular Genetics, 2007-2008
Pharma industry, Greece
Sanaa Mahmood
Molecular Genetics, 2007-2009
immigration attorney , Toronto
Zineng Eric Yuan
Molecular Genetics, 2008-2010
software engineer
Molecular Genetics, 2011-2013
AstraZeneca, Japan
Computer Science, 2014-2016
Software engineer, Uber
Molecular Genetics, 2019-2021
Bioinformatics researcher

Lab Alumni - Visiting students and scholars
2009-2010, NUS
Professor Tongji University
2010-2011, Fudan University
Fudan University
2011-2012, Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR)
2013-2014, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS
2012-2014, Hunan University
Professor, Shandong Normal University
Zicheng Zhao 赵梓丞
2017, City U Hong Kong
City U of Hong Kong
2017-2018, City U Hong Kong
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
2017-2019, Hunan University
post-doc, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Xuejiao Hu
2017-2019, West China Medical Center of Sichuan University
Guangdong Provincial Hospital
2017-2019
Professor, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Korea
2018-2020
2018-2020
NWPU
Hongli Ma 马洪丽
2018-2020
Tsinghua University
2019-2021
Xidian University
Huanwen Wang
2021-2022
Hunan University
Brian Wong
2022
Chinese University HK
2021-2022
Northeast Normal University

Lab Alumni - Undergraduate and Others (first position after U of T)
2005, 2006, summer student
industry
2005, summer student
PhD in Computational Biology
Philip X. Jin
2008, summer student
2010, summer student
PhD student, UofT DCS
David Yim
2009, 2011, research assistant
pharmacist, Toronto
Alharith Hussin
2011, research assistant
2012-2016, research assistant
industry
2015-2016, research assistant
industry
2016-18, project student
graduate student, U of T DCS
Qinyu Lei
2018, project student
graduate student, U of T DCS
Van (Fan) Shen
2018-2019, project student
graduate student, U of T DCS
2018-2019, project student
graduate student, Carnegie Mellon
Dae-Won Sean Gong
2019, summer student
U of T
2019-2020, project student
PhD student, Queens University
2019-2020, project student
graduate student, University of Waterloo
2021-2021, project student
graduate student, Johns Hopkins University
2020-2021, project student
Research Assistant, Stanford
2020-2021, project student
PhD Student, U of Toronto
2022-2023, project student
Graduate student, Harvard Medical School
2022-2023, project student
PhD Studnt, U of Toronto Pharmacology
Chengyue Zhang
2022-2023, project student
Graduate Studnt, U of Toronto DCS
2022-2023, project student
PhD Student, Stanford Computer Science