Tianyuan Lu, PhD
Tianyuan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. Previously, he was a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences from McGill University (2022), where he was supported by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé Doctoral Fellowship, and his BSc in Biological Sciences from Fudan University (2018). He was a Senior Research Scientist at 5 Prime Sciences Inc (2022-2023). Outside of work, he enjoys playing piano, biking, and learning languages. Check his CV
Chen-Yang Su, PhD
Chen-Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate who earned his PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences from McGill University in 2025. He previously completed both a BS in Computer Science and Biology and an MS in Computer Science at McGill. His doctoral research focused on developing proteogenomic protein-disease atlases to identify causal proteins underlying complex diseases and to prioritize potential therapeutic targets. More broadly, his work lies at the intersection of genetic epidemiology, multi-omic bioinformatics, and machine learning for large-scale analysis of biological data.
Shihui Peng, MPH
Shihui is a PhD student in epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She obtained her MPH in epidemiology from Columbia University (2024) and BMed in Preventive Medicine from Sun Yat-sen University (2022). She is interested in integrating multi-omics data with phenotypic and modifiable factors to better understand complex diseases and to improve the disease prevention and diagnosis.
Ou Ren, BSc
Ou is a PhD student in Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She received her bachelor’s degree in Economic Statistics (Experimental Class in Financial Statistics and Risk Management) at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. She is dedicated to developing machine learning methods to better solve problems in genomics and multi-omics.
Yanzhen Cheng, MD, PhD
Visiting scholar
Yanzhen Cheng is a physician from Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University. She obtained her MD/PhD from Southern Medical University. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine disorders, including diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, thyroid disorders and other hormonal imbalances. Her research interests focus on combining genetic epidemiology and multi-omics approaches to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of endocrine diseases.
Jiaqi Duan, BSc
Visiting student
Jiaqi is a visiting student in Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She obtained her BSc in Pharmacy from Sichuan University and is pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on using GWAS summary data and Mendelian randomization-based causal inference approaches to identify novel biomarkers, potential therapeutic targets, and support drug repurposing.
Alumni
Jerome Choi, PhD (Graduated 2025)
Jerome was a PhD student in epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is now Senior Data Scientist at AbbVie.