Our group
Current members
Brunilda Balliu, Principal Investigator
I am an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Computational Medicine, Human Genetics, and Biostatistics at UCLA. I received a BSc in Statistics from the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and a PhD in Statistical Genetics from Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands), advised by Prof. Dr. Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Stefan Boehringer. I completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Stephen Montgomery, focusing on methods to understand the role of inherited variation in molecular and complex traits. I joined UCLA in 2018 as an Independent Fellow in Computational Medicine and later as faculty. Outside work, I’ve been obsessed with salsa dancing since I saw these two dancing!.
PhD students
Lena Krockenberger is a Bioinformatics Ph.D. student working on methods for cis and trans-eQTL mapping in single-cell omics data.
Wenxuan Karen Li is a Biomathematics Ph.D. student working on methods for understanding phenotypic consequences of context-dependent regulatory effects.
Undergraduate students
Lise Tucker is a Computational and Systems Biology undergrad student working on novel cis eQTL mapping methods for single-cell RNA-seq data.
Charlie Wang is a Statistics and Data Science undergrad student working on novel cis eQTL mapping methods for single-cell omics data.
Justin Ng is a Statistics and Data Science undergrad student working on novel cis eQTL mapping methods for single-cell omics data.
Anthony Zhao is a Math and CS undergrad student working on novel multiple testing methods and methods for mapping regulatory effects in single-cell omics data.
Staff
Feiyang Huang is Computational & Data Science Research Specialist working on statistical methods for leveraging digital behavioral phenotypes to predict mood disorders.
Jennifer Shedrack is our administrative assistant.
Lab alumni
Nabil Mohammed, Rotation Ph.D. student, Bioinformatics, Winter 2025.
Kai Akamatsu, Rotating PhD student, Biomathematics, Fall 2024.
Yuxi Song, Rotating PhD student, Biostatistics, Fall 2024.
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