Our Team

Fan Zhang, PhD

Fan Zhang, PhD Google Scholar | ORCID | Linkedin | Twitter | Bluesky
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator
Department of Medicine Rheumatology and Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Center for Health AI

Fan did her Postdoc research with Prof. Soumya Raychaudhuri on using computational single-cell multi-omics to study autoimmune diseases at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT (2017 - 2021). Fan is also an Investigator involved in the NIH-funded Accelerating Medicines Partnership Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (AMP RA/SLE) network. In the AMP Systems Biology Group, Fan leads on developing computational strategies to integrate single-cell multimodal and multi-disease data to define phenotypes of tissue inflammation.

Before that, Fan completed her Ph.D. (2013-2017) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts. She developed novel statistical machine learning models in the fields of variational inference and mixed-membership matrix factorization with Prof. Patrick Flaherty, Associate Professor at the UMass Amherst Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, to characterize patient heterogeneity using large-scale genomic data.

Team Members

  • Jun Inamo, MD/PhD

    Postdoc Fellow
    Twitter | ORCID | Google Scholar
    As a computational biologist and rheumatologist, my research interests are integrating single-cell with clinical data to elucidate the pathogenesis and optimize treatment for autoimmune diseases.

  • Lauren Vanderlinden, PhD

    Postdoc Fellow
    Github | Linkedin
    Lauren earned her PhD in Epidemiology and a Master in Biostatistics from CU. She is interested in connecting genetics with single-cell phenotypes.

  • Jade Young

    PhD Student

    CPBS (Computational Bioscience) PhD Program

    I am interested in leveraging single-cell omics to develop computational methods for resolving disease gene programs and precision medicine.

  • Nanxi Guo

    PhD Student
    Biostatistics and Informatics


    My research interests are developing novel statistical models for single-cell spatial transcriptomics to improve the identification of spatial niches in disease.

  • Samantha Reynoso

    PhD Student

    CPBS PhD Program

    Sam is interested in developing new computational tools for spatial transcriptomics data modeling and integration.

  • Revanth Krishna, MS

    Software Engineer

    Co-supervised with Dr. Chuangqi Wang’s lab. Revanth graduated from University at Buffalo (State University of New York) with Master in Data Science and Applications.

  • Juan Vargas, BS

    Graduate Student
    MPH Biostatistics

    I am interested in developing statistical models to understand cellular diversity and interactions with complement activation.

Alumni

  • Tusharkanti Ghosh, PhD

    Research Associate
    My research lis in developing statistical models for CyTOF data and reproducibility of high-dimensional data.

  • Courtney Schiebout, PhD

    Bioinformatician

    Courtney graduated from Dartmouth College in the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences.

  • Helen Wolde, BS

    Computational Bioscience (CPBS) Summer student (2022)

    Biostatistics MS program (2023-2025)

  • Yonatan Wolde, BS

    Computational Bioscience (CPBS) Summer student (2022)

    Biostatistics MS program (2023-2025)

  • Kewalin Samart

    PhD Rotating Student 2023
    Computational Bioscience (CPBS) PhD Program
    CU School of Medicine

  • Hope Townsend

    Description goes PhD Rotating Student 2023

    Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Program CU Boulder

  • Douglas Fritz

    MSTP Rotating Student 2022

    Interested in ML for complex immunology system. He is now in NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program.

  • Hannah Wang

    Research Intern (2022)
    Hannah was a talented local Colorado high school student. Now she is an undergraduate student at MIT.

  • Aishwarya Mandava

    PhD Rotating Student 2024
    Computational Bioscience (CPBS) PhD Program
    CU School of Medicine

  • Jessica Lee

    PhD Rotating Student 2024
    Immunology PhD Program
    CU School of Medicine

  • Grace Akatsu

    MSTP Rotating Student 2023

    CU School of Medicine

  • Nicholas Cordaro

    MSTP Rotating Student 2023

    CU School of Medicine

  • Madison Cho-Richmond

    PhD rotating student 2025
    Pharmacology PhD Program

Collaborators

  • Dr. A. Helena Jonsson: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  • Dr. Michael Holers: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  • Dr. Kristi Kuhn: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  • Dr. Kevin Deane: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

  • Dr. Deepak Rao: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Michael Brenner: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Edy Kim: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  • Dr. Laura Donlin: Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Weill Cornell Medicine