People — Kevin Z. Lin Lab

Lab photos

Lab photo, taken the 2025-26 academic year.

Current lab members

Zhaoheng Li

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Multi-view cellular dynamics via manifold testing

Shirley Mathur

Statistics, PhD (Thesis co-advisee, co-advisor: A. Shojaie)

Studying: Proteomic regulatory networks during cell division of yeast via ODE network estimation
Email: shirmath@uw.edu

Yimin Zhao

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Fate commitment via semi-supervised learning
Email: ymzhao97@uw.edu
Papers: (SCOPE)

Amy Watt

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Local and global signatures of Alzheimer's disease via confirmatory factor analysis

Mohamad Bairakdar

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Gene regulatory mechanisms from single-cell CRISPR screens via causal inference

Jingyi Guan

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Coordination and disconcordance between proteomics and transcriptomics in microglia via variational autoencoders
Webpage: (Linkedin)

Michael Yung

Biostatistics, PhD (Independent study)

Studying: Microglia morphology via stable diffusion
Email: mengyung@uw.edu

Yifan Lin

Biostatistics, Masters

Studying: Cellular mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease adjusting for co-pathologies via estimating unmeasured confounders
Webpage: (Linkedin) Papers: (SensGAN)

Jinqiu (Turbo) Du

Biostatistics, Masters

Studying: Coordination between morphology and gene expression via diagonal integration
Webpage: (Github.io) . Email: turbodu@uw.edu
Papers: (GeoAdvAE)

Rita Li

Biostatistics, Masters

Studying: Differential expression of microglia in Alzheimer's disease via negative control genes
Email: rita999@uw.edu

Alumni

Yuhong Li — Completed: Biostatistics (MS, 2025). After: PhD in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University.
Papers: (Replicate Coherence)
Wenbin Wu — Completed: Statistics (MS, 2025). After: PhD in Biostatistics, University of North Carolina.
Papers: (ODEInherit)
Shizhao (Joshua) Yang (Webpage) — Completed: Biostatistics (MS, 2025). After: PhD in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Dartmouth.
Papers: (LCL)
Wenjing (Tati) Zhang — Completed: Biostatistics (MS, 2025). After: PhD in Biostatistics & Data Science, UTHealth Houston.
Haoye Yang — Completed: Statistics (MS, 2023). After: PhD in Human Genetics, University of Chicago.