Our group
Current members
Brunilda Balliu, Principal Investigator
I am an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Computational Medicine, and Biostatistics at UCLA. I obtained a BSc. in Statistics from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece and a Ph.D. in Statistical Genetics from the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Stefan Boehringer. I did my postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Stephen Montgomery, focusing on methods to understand the role of inherited variation on molecular and complex traits. I joined UCLA in 2018 as an Independent Fellow in the Department of Computational Medicine and later as a faculty in the Departments of Pathology and Computational Medicine. Outside work, I have been obsessed with salsa dancing since I saw these two dancing.
Lena Krockenberger, PhD student, Bioinformatics
Lena is a Bioinformatics Ph.D. student working on methods for trans-eQTL mapping in single-cell RNA-Seq and bulk multi-context data.
Feiyang Huang, Master student, Biostatistics
Faye is a master’s student in Biostatistics working on statistical methods for leveraging digital behavioral phenotypes to predict mood disorders.
Yuxi Song, Rotating PhD student, Biostatistics
Yuxi is a Biostatistics working on statistical methods for cis-eQTL mapping in single-cell and bulk RNA-Seq data.
Kai Akamatsu, Rotating PhD student, Biomathematics
Kai is a Biomathematics Ph.D. student working on methods for integrating digital behavioral phenotypes into psychiatric genetic research.
Wenxuan Karen Li, Rotating PhD student, Biomathematics
Karen is a Biomathematics Ph.D. student working on methods for understanding phenotypic consequences of context-dependent regulatory effects.
Lab alumni
Weijian Wang, Rotation Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Spring 2024.
Vivian Yee, Undergraduate student, Data Theory, Spring 2024
Tim Lindsey, Rotation PhD student, Bioinformatics, Winter 2024
Cuining (Choo) Liu, Rotation PhD student, Bioinformatics, Winter 2024
Clara Frydman, Rotation Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Spring 2023
Jeremy Wang, Rotation Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Spring 2023
Jerome Freudenberg, Rotation Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Winter 2023
Stephanie Weber, Master student, Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Yuxuan Xia, Undergraduate student, Computational and Systems Biology, Fall 2022 - Summer 2023
Andrew Lu, Rotation MD Ph.D. student, UCLA-CalTech MSTP, Winter 2020 - Winter 2021