He lab members at UROP Symposium 2024: Jakub Mikolajczak, Serena (Sirui) Chen, Joy Hu, Priscilla Du, Saketh Boddapati, Nor Danish Imran Bin Nor Hisham, Mary Czelusniak, Hayleigh Kahn, Anthony Huffman, and Yongqun "Oliver" He. Note: The first eight are all UROP undergraduate students, each of whom presented a poster at the UROP Symposium 2024 at the MI League, UMich, on 04/24/2023 (Wednesday).

More Hegroup Photos: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015; 2014; 2013; before 2012.

CURRENT HE GROUP MEMBERS:

• Anthony Huffman: Bioinformatics graduate student, performed research as MS student during January - December 2020, and then promoted to PhD student since January 2021.
• Jie Zheng: Software developer and Bioinformatician, joining the He Lab since July 2023.
• Yuanyi (Penny) Pan: Visiting PhD exchange student from Guozhou University Medical School, Guiyang, Guozhou province, China. Penny will conduct her biomedical informatics PhD research from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2024.
• Michael F. Cooke: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - April 2021), then work-study research assistant in 2021-2022; Acted as a part-time software developer in the lab since Dec 2022.
• Dr. Zhaoyan Chen: Visiting scholar in He lab during 12/1/2023 to 11/30/2024. Dr. Chen is Chief Physician, Intensive Care Unit, First Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, Guangxi, China.
• Mary Czelusniak: UROP undergraduate student (October 2023 - April 2024). Summer intern 2024 in He lab. Workstudy during September 2024 and April 2025. Topic: cellcards.
• Priscilla Du: UROP undergraduate student (October 2023 - April 2024, and September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: VIOLIN viral vaccines. Work study during September 2024 - April 2025.
• Joshua Monickaraj: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: VIOLIN vaccines (vaccine adjuvants).
• Ayesha Saleem: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: VIOLIN vaccines (vaccine adjuvants).
• Ruopeng Wu: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: kidneyp precision medicine.
• Minh-Y Nguyen: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: kidneyp precision medicine.
• Olena Zhmuryk: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: CanVaxKB cancer vaccines.
• Charlie Meyer: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: CanVaxKB cancer vaccines.
• Mathura Balaji: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: CellCards.
• Asato Matthew: UROP undergraduate student (September 2024 - April 2025). Topic: Ontology vaccine LLMs for VIOLIN vaccines.
• Xiangxian Laurel Li: UMich undergraduate student volunteer from fall 2023 to April 2024. Summer intern 2024 in He lab
• Taiyu Lin: Undergraduate student (Shangdong University) volunteer since fall 2023.
• Fatima Oudeif: UROP undergraduate student (May - August 2022, and then September 2022 - April 2023); Volunteer since fall 2023.
• Arya Gandhi, UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023); Volunteer since May 2023.
• Mehul Gautam, UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023); Volunteer since May 2023.
• Ellen Zhang , UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023); Volunteer since May 2023.
• Yuhan Zhang, UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023); 2023 summer intern in He lab; Volunteer since fall 2023.
• Eliyas Asfaw, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020), and volunteer in fall 2023.
• Sam Smith: A retired engineer from Detroit. Sam and Oliver collaborated on ontology-related projects.
• Yongqun "Oliver" He (何勇群; PI), Professor of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School.

PREVIOUS HE GROUP MEMBERS:

Postdoctoral Research Follows:


• Asiyah Yu Lin, Research Fellow (Dec 2010 - Sept 2014). Asiyah then became a FDA ORISE research fellow, worked at FDA, and then NIH.
• Xinna Li, Research Fellow (10/2010 – 10/2012). As of 2021, Xinna is an Assistant Research Scientist in Michigan Medicine.
• Fang Chen, Research Fellow (Feb 2007 - July 2010). Note: July 2010 - June 2013, Internal Medicine resident, Orlando, Florida; starting June 2013, as a MD and hospitalist, in Longview, Washington, USA.
• Thomas Todd, DVM, Veterinary Resident and Postdoctoral Research Fellow; PhD student in Microbiology & Immunology (Note: as of April 2011, Assistant Director in the Division of Comparative Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612)
  
  
Graduate Students:

Graduate students at the University of Michigan (He as mentor or co-mentor):


• Edison Ong: MS/PhD Bioinformatics student in UM. Initially performed MS rotation research in He lab in Fall 2014, and transferred to become a PhD student starting January 2016. Edison passed his PhD preliminary exam in September 2016, and defended his PhD thesis on January 27, 2021. Oliver is Edison's PhD mentor.
• Yingtong Liu: M.S., Graduate student in Bioinformatics, research rotation and research credit during 2020-2021. After graduation, Yingtong became a PhD student in bioinformatics in University of South CA, Los Angeles.
• Denise Bronner, PhD student in Microbiology and Immunology: Research rotation in He lab: Fall 2010; Joined He lab Summer 2011-April 2012 to conduct Brucella-host interaction research; and then joined Dr. Mary O'Riordan's lab since summer 2012 for research using the same Brucella model. Oliver He is Denise' PhD research co-mentor. Denise defended her PhD thesis on March 27, 2015.
• Omar Tibi: Volunteer research during April 2011 - May 2014 and since January 2017. Omar obtained his B.S. from East Michigan Universty, and studied in the Virginia Common Wealth University for two years, and then switched to the John Hopkins University M.S. Bioinformatics online program as a M.S. in bioinforamtics starting January 9, 2017. Since then Omar had resumed his volunteer bioinformatics research in the lab, until summer 2018. Omar started to work for Sanofi in Boston on October 2018.
• Sirarat Sarntivijai, PhD student in Bioinformatics (10/2009 – 5/2012) (Note: May 2012 - Nov 2014: ORISE postdoctoral fellow at FDA; starting Dec 2014: an EBI bioinformatiican - Ontologist). Oliver He is Sira's PhD thesis co-mentor.
• Daniel Zinder, PhD student in Bioinformatics (Research rotation: fall 2010)
• Keerthi Sindhura Sannareddy, M.S. in Bioinformatics, University of Michigan (Research rotation: 1/2010 – 5/2010)
• Andrew P. Hodges, PhD student in Bioinformatics (2005-2011) (Note: after graduation, became a postdoc fellow in Dr. Giovanni Paternostro Lab at Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute). Oliver was Andrew's major advisor/mentor.
  
  
Visiting PhD students from abroad:


• Yongmei Bai: A PhD candidate from Peking University visited He lab for three month, from Feb - May, 2024.
• Jinjing (Jimmy) Guo: Visiting PhD exchange student from School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Jimmy will conduct his library informatics PhD research from November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023.
• Yang Wang: Exchange PhD student in Biomedical Informatics from Guizhou University Medical School, Guiyang, Guizhou, China. During: January 2020 to September 3, 2021.
• Hsin-Hui Huang: Exchange PhD student (major: Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine), School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, National Yang-Ming University (YMU), Taipei, Taiwan. Hsin-Hui is a PhD exchange student and will do her research in UM for one year (started from 5/1/2019 and left in the end of April 2020).
• Meng Liu (Mia): PhD Bioinformatics student from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Mia is a PhD exchange student who will perform her research in UM for one year (started from 9/29/2018 and left in the end of August 2019).
• Jiangan (Hardy) Xie （谢江安）: Hardy joined the He lab as a visiting PhD student on October 11, 2014. Hardy was a PhD student in the major of Computer Science from Chongqing University in China. He will stay in He lab for two full years for his PhD research. Hardy defended his PhD thesis soon after he returned back to China. In December 2016, he got an offer to join the School of Bio-information at the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (重庆邮电大学) as an assistant professor.
• Wenxiao Liu, visiting PhD Candidate in Microbiology and Immunology from China Agricultural University (9/2011 – 8/2012)
• Raheela Akhtart, visiting PhD student (Aug 2009 - Feb 2010) (Now a professor in Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore-54000, Pakistan)
  
  
Undergraduate Students:


• Emily Tran: UROP undergraduate student (September 2023 - April 2024). Topic: cellcards.
• Nor Danish Imran Bin Nor Hisham: UROP undergraduate student (October 2023 - April 2024). Topic: VIOLIN vaccines with SemRep.
• Saketh Boddapati: UROP undergraduate student (October 2023 - April 2024). Topic: kidneyp precision medicine.
• Jakub Mikolajczak: UROP undergraduate student (September 2023 - April 2024). Topic:vaccine design
• Serena Sinui Chen: UROP undergraduate student (September 2023 - April 2024). Topic:vaccine design
• Hayleigh Kahn: UROP undergraduate student (September 2023 - April 2024). Topic: cancer vaccines in VIOLIN. then volunteer since April 2024.
• Joy Hu: UROP undergraduate student (September 2023 - April 2024). Topic: VIOLIN malaria vaccines. then volunteer since April 2024.
• Jazlyn Cain: UROP undergraduate student (October 2023 - December 2023). Topic: VIOLIN vaccine.
• Meghana Lanka, UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023).
• Nethra Vijayakumar, UROP undergraduate student (September 2022 - April 2023).
• Wenxin Guo: UROP undergraduate student (September 2021 - April 2022), and then worked as a volunteer in summer 2023.
• Philip Huang: Undergraduate student (major in MCDB), volunteer from September 2020 to summer 2021.
• Ani Bernardi: UROP undergraduate student (September 2021 - April 2022).
• Jinyang Du: UROP undergraduate student (September 2021 - April 2022).
• Lia Papageorge: UROP undergraduate student (September 2021 - April 2022).
• Jessica Deguise: UROP undergraduate student (Mary 2021 - April 2022).
• Zalan Shah, UROP undergraduate student (summer 2021)
• Chloe Darancou, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020), and then work as a volunteer until 2021.
• Rohit Goru: Undergraduate student (major in MCDB), volunteer during December 2020 - August 2022.
• Jamie Ngai, UROPundergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020), and then worked as a volunteer in 2021.
• Peiling Tan, UROP undergraduate student (Jan 2021 - April 2021)
• Roshan Desai, UROP undergraduate student (Jan 2021 - April 2021)
• Grace Whah, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - April 2021)
  
• Jennifer O. Roman, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - August 2021)
  
• Michael F. Cooke, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - April 2021)
• Easheta Shah, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - April 2021)
• Aster Duoduo Qian, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2020 - December 2020)
• Jamie Ngai, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020)
• Lauren Austin, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020)
  
• Chloe Darancou, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020)
  
• Eliyas Asfaw, UROP undergraduate student (May 2020 - August 2020)
• Nader Wehbi: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
• Siqi Li: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020), and then work as a volunteer until March 2021. After graduation, Siqi joined Duke-NUS Medical School as a PhD student in Quantitative Biology and Medicine - Biostatistics and Health Data.
• Madison Emma Kalter: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
• Davis Bartels: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2019 - April 2020)
• Ninotchka Valdez: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2018 - April 2019), and then work study research assistant.
• Kallan Roan: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2018 - April 2019)
• Khadeejah M. Khan: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2018 - April 2019)
• David Ameriguian: UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2018 - April 2019)
• Ronak B. Sutariya: Undergraduate volunteer research assistant (2015-2017), working on the VIOLIN database and inputting cancer vaccien candidates. (currently a M.D. candidate, Class of 2023, Georgetown University School of Medicine.)
• Kimberly Berke, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - April 2015; volunteer aftwards), Kimberly joined the Central Michigan's College of Medicine in t he fall 2018.
• Jason Hu, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2017 - April 2018)
• Solomiya (Solo) Nysak, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2017 - April 2018)
• Meenakshi (Mmeena) Seetharaman, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2017 - April 2018)
• Madison George, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2016 - April 2017)
• Noemi Garg, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2016 - April 2017)
• Bingjian Yang, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2016 - April 2017; volunteer April 2017 - April 2018) (update: accepted to Penn Dental Medicine in fall 2020)
• Kelly Yang, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2016 - April 2017)
• Christopher Codd, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016)
• Sydni S. Joubran, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2014 - April 2016)
• Jessica Wang, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016)
• Ningxian Fan, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016; volunteer April 2016 - April 2017)
• Sydni Suzanne Joubran, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2014 - April 2016)
• Jessica Wang, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016)
• Ningxian Fan, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016)
• Chrostopher Codd, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2015 - April 2016)
• Peter Sun, UROP and then voluteer undergraduate student (Sept 2014 - April 2016)
• Kimberly Berke, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - April 2015) (Joined Central Michiga's College of Medicine in 2018.)  
• Mukti Patel, UM undergraduate student (Sept 2012 - April 2015; volunteer or for research credit hours)
• Nancy Tran, undergraduate student (UROP program Sept 2012 - May 2013; Credit course research Sept 2014 - April 2015)
• Natalie Dunn, LSA Undergraduate Student (starting October 2013 as aa voluteer; Credit course research Sept 2014 - April 2015)
• Kevin Mo, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2014 - April 2015)
• Rasika Patil, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Carly Martin, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Daniel A. Faghihnia, UROP undergraduate student (mentored by Asiyah; Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Elyse M. Fleck, UROP undergraduate student (mentored by Asiyah; Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Nancy H. Tran, UROP undergraduate student (mentored by Asiyah; Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Izabela Birsanescu, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2013 - April 2014)
• Rebecca Racz, Undergraduate, University of Michigan (Feb 2011 - 2012; Becca graduated in May 2012 and joined the Pharmacy in UM. Since then, Becca has continued to work on VIOLIN until now 2014.)
• Abra Guo, Undergraduate Student (Sept 2011-May 2013)
• Shelley Zhang, Undergraduate Student (Sept 2012-May 2014)
• Erica Marcos, Undergraduate Student (January to May 2013)
• Joseph Ostrow, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2012 - May 2013)
• Desikan Jagannathan (DJ), UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2012 - May 2013)
• Monica Chung, Undergraduate, University of Michigan (Jan 2012 - November 2012)
• Andrew Sylora, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2011 - May 2012)
• Ryan Yucha, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2011 - May 2012)
• Sabian Hasani, Undergraduate Student (9/2011 – 5/2012 )
• Andrew Sylora, UROP undergraduate student (9/2011 – 5/2012)
• Ryan Evan Yucha, UROP undergraduate student (9/2011 – 5/2012 )
• Mark Fan Yang, Undergraduate Student (1/2012 – 5/2012 ) (Update: to join Pharmacy school in UM in fall 2013.)
• Mital Patel, UROP and then part time research undergraduate student (9/2008 –  5/2011) (Update: to join medical school after graduation.)
• Guerlain Ulysse, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2010 - May 2011)
• Priya Dungarani, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2010 - May 2011) (Update: to join Pharmacy school in UM in fall 2013.)
• Brian Yang, Harvard University (May 2010 - August 2010) (Update: now a research associate at the Department of Neurology in UCSF)
• Boyang Zhao, Undergraduate Student (Fall 2008 - May 2010) (update: joined MIT for PhD research)
• Kanika Kochhar, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2009 - May 2010)
• Samantha Sayers, UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2009 - May 2010) (updated: joined UM School of Public Health for graduate study after staying in working as a research assistant for a year May 2010-Aug 2011)
• Kelsey Strait, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2008 - May 2009)
• Tianyu Tang (Helen), UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2008 - May 2009) (Update: to join Harvard School of Public Health for graduate study in Epidemiology in fall 2013.)
• Boris Vidri, UROP Undergraduate Student (Jan 2009 - May 2009) (updated: joined Wayne State University Medical School after graduation)
• Bryant Yee, School of Art & Design, BFA Class of 2011, University of Michigan (Summer 2008)
• Jennifer L. Smith, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2007 - May 2008) (Update: joined Pharmacy school in UM after graduation)
• Grace G. Zhu, UROP Undergraduate Student (9/2007 – 12/2007) (Update: joined Waybes State School of Medicine after graduation)
• Elizabeth A. Olenzek, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2007 - May 2008)
• Kimberly Ku, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2006 - May 2008) (Update: graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine, and now internal medical resident at Indiana University School of Medicine)
• Bethany L. Kovacic, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2006 - May 2007)
• Charles B. Larson, UROP Undergraduate Student (Sept 2006 - May 2007) (Update: now a PhD student in UCSD)
• Mijung Park, Universit of Michigan School of Art and Design (Summer 2006)
  
  
Part-time student research assistants:


• Rebecca Leigh Racz, Research assistant (Summer 2012 - April 2016); Becca volunteered as an undergraduate student in the lab from Feb 2011-May 2012; Becca become a Pharmacy student during Fall 2012 and April 2016 in UM. After graduation, Becca became an ORISE fellow in FDA.
• Daniel Faghihnia, undergraduate student (UROP program Sept 2012 - May 2013; Credit course research Jan 2015 - April 2015; 2015 summer research assistant 2015).
  
  
DVM Students who Worked in He Lab in Summers:


• Gerald Hish, DVM resident (Jan 2012 to April 2012)
• Gerald Hish, DVM resident (Jan 2012 to April 2012)
• Megan Ramaker, DVM student (School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Research intern (May 2010 - Aug 2010)
• Kimberly Quandt, DVM student (College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University), Research intern (May 2009 - Aug 2009)
• Jered Wendte, DVM student (Oklahoma State University), Research Intern (May 2008 - Aug 2008)
• Alicia Diane Cawlfield, DVM student (North Carolina State University), Research Intern (May 2006 - Aug 2006)
  
  
High shool Student volunteers:


• Ibrahim Seleznev, a high school student in Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Volunteer research. Summer 2021.
• Justin Song, Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304, research volunteer (summer 2020 and 2021)
• Virginia He, Huron High School, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, research volunteer (summer 2020 and 2021)
• Shelley Zhang, Pioneer High School senior, research volunteer (2010-2011) (later became an undergraduate student in UM)
  
  
Visiting Scholars:


• Kaiyong Liu (刘开永): Visiting scholar. Dr. Liu is an associate professor from Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China. He stayed for one year starting from March 11, 2018, and left on March 2 (Monday), 2020.
• Ling Wan (Eric, 万灵): Visiting scholar. Dr. Wan from Jiangsu, China will perform biomedical ontology research for one year starting from August 7, 2018.
• Dr. Haihe Wang (王海河), an associate professor from Department of Pathogenobiology, Daqing Branch of Harbin Medical University, Daqing, China, 163319. Dr. Wang arrived at Ann Arbor on 02/28/2017 to join He lab as a visiting scholar. He will return back to China on 3/1/2018.
• Dr. Hong Yu (余红), a professor from Guizhou University Medical School and a medical doctor from Guizhou Province People's Hospital, Guiyang, Guozhou, China. Dr. Yu arrived at Ann Arbor on 03/12/2017 to join He lab as a visiting scholar. She Ni returned back to China on 8/31/2017.
• Dr. Zhaohui Ni (倪朝辉), an associate professor from Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, China. Dr. Ni arrived at Ann Arbor on 12/15/2015 and officially joined He lab early January 2016 as a visiting scholar. Dr. Ni returned back to China on 1/14/2017 (Saturday).
• Dr. Qingping Liu (刘清平), an associate professor from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, arrived at Ann Arbor and joined He lab as a visiting scholar on 9/10/2015 (Thursday).
• Dr. Shunzhou Deng (邓舜洲): Dr. Deng joined the He lab as a visiting Scholar from May 27, 2014 to May 14, 2015. Dr. Deng is an associate professor (promoted to full professor in December 2014) of veterinary infectious diseases in Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. He will conduct research in the He lab for one full year.
• Dr. Guanghua (Jeff) Hu（傅光华）: Jeff joined the He lab as a visiting Scholar for the period of August 23, 2014 to March 7, 2015. Dr. Fu is an associate researcher in the laboratory of avian diseases, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujiang, China.
• Hao-Teng Chang, Assistant Professor, China Medical University, Taizhong, Taiwan; Visitor Scholar (5/2012-8/2012)
• Amal Awad (visiting scholar from Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt) (Feb to August 2012 )
• Jianguo Zhu （朱建国）, Associate Professor (Shanghai Jiaotao University, China), Visitor Scholar (Nov 2007 - April 2008) (Note: as of April 2011,a Full Professor, in Shanghi Jiaotao University, China)
  
  
Staff Research Assistants:


• Mei U Wong: Research volunteer (2014-2021). Mei earned her B.S. in Biomchemistry and Cell Biology from University of California, San Diego.
• Charles B. Larson, Research assistant (May 2010-April 2012), Undergraduate Student (Sept 2006 - May 2010, first year as UROP undergraduate student) (Status: since fall 2012, PhD student in UCSD)
• Samantha Sayers, Research Assistant (May 2010-Aug 2011), UROP undergraduate student (Sept 2009 - May 2010)
• Angelica Lin, Research Assistant (2010)
• Sankari Arumugarajah, Lab Technician (Jan 2006 - Dec 2006)
  
  
Staff Bioinformatician (Computer Specialist):


• Bin Zhao, Bioinformatician. Bin joined He lab as a bioinformatics research internal as a MS student in UM School of Information (May 2013 to May 2014) and then as bioinformatician from May 20014 to 1/31/2015.
• Zuoshuang "Allen" Xiang, Bioinformatician (2005-2013)
• Junping Yue: Part time software developer and system administrator (starting 2/24/2015 for one year).
  
  
Collaborators and mentors:


• George W. Jourdian, Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry, Medical School. Since Dr. He joined the UM, they had become very good friends, colleagues, and collaborars. The original He lab in the Kresge building was indeed part of Dr. Bill Jourdian's lab space before his retirement. Dr. Jourdian and Dr. He had been collaborating until 2015. They shared the same lab space, and Dr. Jourdian had helped Dr. He and He lab members with mentoring, lab skills, and discussions. Dr. Jourdian passed away on November 28, 2015.

OLIVER HE's MENTORS:

• Gerhardt G. Schurig (PhD Advisor, 1996-2000), Immunology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Pedro Mendes (M.S. research advisor, 2001-2002), Computational Biology, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Hanchun Yang (杨汉春 ) & Zhongzhi Zhang (张中直) (M.S. co-advisors, 1993-1996), Infectious Diseases & Veterinary Preventive Medicine, China Agricultural Univeristy, Beijing, China
• Bruno Sobral (Postdoc Advisor, 2002-2005), Bioinformatics and Genetics, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA

ACTIVE COLLABORATORS (note: not actively updated):

Ontology Development and Applications:


• Sirarat (Sira) Sarntivijai, Data-Interoperability Senior Technical Coordinator at ELIXIR.
• OBI Consortium and OBO Foundry members, including:
• Barry Smith, University at Baffulo, NY, USA
• Jie Zheng, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
• Chris Stoeckert, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
• Melanie Courtot, Metadata Standards Coordinator, Archival Infrastructure and Technology Team, EBI, UK; (previously University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, CA, USA
• Alexander Diehl, University at Baffulo, NY, USA
• Chris Mungall, Molecular Ecosystems Biology, Berkeley Lab, CA, USA
• many more ...
  
  
University of Michigan (UM) Collaborators for ontology development:


• Marcelline (Marcy) Harris, School of Nursing, UM
• Alla Karnovsky, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, UM
• Frank J. Manion, Comprehensive Cancer Center, UM
  
  
UM Collaborators for ontology applications:


• Janet R. Gilsdorf, University of Michigan Medical Center
• Beth Tarini, Child Health Evaluation & Research (CHEAR) Unit, Division of General Pediatrics
  
  
More ontology and semantics collaborators:


• Cui Tao, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  
  
Literature Mining:


• Junguk Hur, School Of Medicine And Health Sciences, University of North Dakoda.
• Arzucan Ozgur, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey.
• Dragomir R. Radev, the Computational Linguistics And Information Retrieval research group, University of Michigan.
  
  
Statistics:


• Lili Zhang, Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
• Peter Woolf, Previously a faculty member in UM, now a founder and CEO of Foodwiki.
• Alfred Hero, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of Michigan.
• Zhaohui Steve Qin, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
  
  
Brucella Research:


• Qingmin Wu (吴清民), Brucella researcher, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
  
  
Bioinformatics research collaborations:


• Gary Huffnagle, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School.
• Jeffrey L. Curtis, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School.
• Michal Olszewski, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Medical School & VA Medical Center Ann Arbor Research Service.
• Fan Meng, Department of Psychiatry, Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinforamtics, University of Michigan Medical School.
• Guanming Wu, Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, School of Medicine
  
  
• Note: We have been collaborating with many researchers and scientists on campus, in the USA, in China, and in many other countries around the world. The above list does not include all our collaborators (sorry).