team

Heejung Shim

Group Leader, Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems (MACSYS)

• Postdoc, University of Chicago (with Matthew Stephens)
• PhD Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BS Mathematics, POSTECH
• Previously: Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Dr. Sophie Wharrie

Research Fellow, started January 2025

• Expertise in machine learning and AI for genomics

Sandeep Santhosh Kumar

PhD Student, started March 2022

• Project: Neural-network model for inferring genetic pathways from single-cell data
• Co-supervised with Dr. Davis McCarthy

Yifan Wang

PhD Student, started October 2022

• Project: Statistical methods for identifying uORFs using ribosome profiling data
• Co-supervised with Dr. Yao-ban Chan

Sagrika Chugh

PhD Student, started April 2021

• Project: Bioinformatics tools for single-cell ATAC sequencing analysis
• Principal supervisor: Dr. Davis McCarthy

Aaron Kwok

PhD Student, started March 2022

• Project: scATAC-seq data analysis and QTLs
• Principal supervisor: Dr. Davis McCarthy

Lahiru Sandaruwan

PhD Student, started October 2023

• Project: Statistical methods for spatial transcriptomics
• Principal supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Agus Salim

Yulin Wu

PhD Student, started February 2025

• Project: Statistical methods for spatial transcriptomics and AI protein structure analysis
• Co-supervised with Prof. Matt Ritchie

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Yichen Jiang

MSc Student in Data Science, started March 2024

• Project: Machine learning and statistics for spatial transcriptomics

Zeynep March

MSc Student in Bioinformatics, started July 2024

• Project: Computational methods for Nanopore data analysis

Christiaan Van Aardt

Undergraduate, started December 2024

• Project: Generalisability of spatial features

Ngoc Minh Vu

Undergraduate, started February 2025

• Project: CRISPR-modified single-cell isoform expression using nanopore RNA sequencing

Ruqian Lyu

PhD, University of Melbourne, completed 2024

PhD Student. Topic: single-cell genomics and spatial transcriptomics

Yupei You

PhD, University of Melbourne, completed 2024

PhD Student. Topic: Oxford Nanopore RNA sequencing tools

Hui Li

PhD, University of Melbourne, completed 2023

PhD Student. Topic: variational autoencoders in biomedical analysis

Qian Feng

PhD, University of Melbourne, completed 2023

PhD Student. Topic: malaria var genes with HMMs

Patrick Medina

PhD Statistics, Purdue University, 2017

PhD Student at Purdue University