Chairs and Committees

• General Co-Chairs

  • Jing Huang, Ph.D. (Veracyte, USA)
    • VP of Bioinformatics, Veracyte Inc
    • President, San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ASA (SFASA)
  • Ying Lu, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Professor, Health Research & Policy, Stanford University
    • Director, US VA Cooperative Studies Program
      Palo Alto Coordinating Center
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ying-lu
  • Philip Bourne, Ph.D. (NIH/OD, USA)
    • http://www.sdsc.edu/~bourne/

• Local Organization Chairs

  • Jing Huang, Ph.D. (Veracyte, USA)
    • VP of Bioinformatics, Veracyte Inc
    • President, San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ASA (SFASA)
  • Hua Tang, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University
    • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics, Stanford University
    • Member, Bio-X
    • Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/hua-tang
  • Haiyan Huang, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Statistics,
      University of California, Berkeley, USA
    • Primary Research Area: Applied & Theoretical Statistics
    • Sub-Focus: Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics/Biostatistics
    • Research Interests: High dimensional and integrative genomic data analysis; Network modeling;Hierarchical multi-label classification; translational bioinformatics
    • http://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/haiyan-huang

• Local Organization Committee

  • Bin Chen, Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
    • Instructor, Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UCSF.
    • Interests: Translational Bioinformatics, Drug repositioning, Precision Medicine
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/binchen1
  • Haiyan Huang, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Statistics,
      University of California, Berkeley, USA
    • Primary Research Area: Applied & Theoretical Statistics
    • Sub-Focus: Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics/Biostatistics
    • Research Interests: High dimensional and integrative genomic data analysis; Network modeling;Hierarchical multi-label classification; translational bioinformatics
    • http://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/haiyan-huang
  • Jing Huang, Ph.D. (Veracyte, USA)
    • VP of Bioinformatics, Veracyte Inc
    • President, San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ASA (SFASA)
  • Ruixiao Lu, Ph.D. (Genomic Health, USA)
    • Principal Biostatistician, Genomic Health, Inc.
    • President-Past, San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ASA (SFASA)
    • https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ruixiao-lu/4/ba1/511
  • Ying Lu, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Professor, Health Research & Policy, Stanford University
    • Director, US VA Cooperative Studies Program
      Palo Alto Coordinating Center
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ying-lu
  • Hua Tang, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Genetics, Stanford University
    • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics, Stanford University
    • Member, Bio-X
    • Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/hua-tang
  • Rui (Sammi) Tang, Ph.D. (Amgen, USA)
    • Biostatistics Senior Manager, Amgen
    • Oncology and expertise in IVD and biomarker development
      Serve as Global Biostatistics Sciences Lead of IVD and biomarker
  • Lu Tian, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy, Stanford University
    • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics, Stanford University
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/lu-tian
  • Peng Yang, M.S. (Clindata Insight Inc., USA)
    • Founder and President of Clindata Insight Inc.
    • Clindata Insight, based in Moraga, CA, provides statistical and programming consulting and recruiting services to biotech and pharma companies around the bay area. Peng loves to network with biostatistics and bioinformatics professionals.
    • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pengyangsf
    • Clindata Insight Inc.: http://www.clindatainsight.com
  • Xin Zhao, MD, Ph.D. (Johnson & Johnson, USA)
    • Director, Biostatistics, Johnson & Johnson
    • President-Elect, San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ASA (SFASA)

• PC Co-Chairs

  • Lu Tian, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
    • Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy, Stanford University
    • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Statistics, Stanford University
    • https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/lu-tian
  • Jijun Tang, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina, USA)
    • http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jtang/
  • Phoebe Chen, Ph.D. (La Trobe University, Australia)
    • http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ypchen/

• Program Committee Members

  • Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University
  • Max Alekseyev, George Washington University
  • Gil Alterovitz, Haravrd/MIT
  • Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo
  • Vladimir Brusic, Nazarbayev University
  • Dongbo Bu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Janusz Bujnicki, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Pritam Chanda, Johns Hopkins University
  • Tzu-Hao Chang, Taipei Medical University
  • Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University
  • Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University
  • Jake Yue Chen, Indiana University School of Informatics
  • Chao Cheng, Dartmouth College
  • Lenore Cowen, Tufts University
  • Minghua Deng, Peking University
  • Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal
  • Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University
  • Kyungsook Han, Inha University
  • Eric Ho, Lafayette College
  • Jun Huan, University of Kansas
  • Hsien-Da Huang, National Chiao Tung University
  • Heng Huang, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
  • Hsuan-Cheng Huang, National Yang-Ming University
  • Haiyan Huang, University of California Berkeley
  • Hua Tang, Ph.D. (Stanford University, USA)
  • Jenn-Kang Hwang, National Chiao Tung University
  • Rui Jiang, Tsinghua University
  • Sun Kim, Seoul National University
  • Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
  • Tzong-Yi Lee, Yuan Ze University
  • Doheon Lee, KAIST
  • Hongxing Lei, Beijing Institute of Genomics
  • Juan Liu, Wuhan University
  • Xinghua Lu, University of Pittsbutgh
  • Bin Ma, University of Waterloo
  • Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University
  • Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut
  • Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo
  • Bernard Moret, EPFL
  • Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo
  • Kenta Nakai, University of Tokyo
  • Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC-ID and Cadence Research Laboratories
  • Rob Patro, Stony Brook University
  • Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University
  • Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University
  • Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University
  • David Sankoff, University of Ottawa
  • Thomas Schlitt, King's College London
  • Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Rahul Singh, San Francisco State University
  • Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University
  • Yanni Sun, Michigan State University
  • Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California
  • Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore
  • Krister Swenson, Université de Montpellier
  • Petrus Tang, Chang Gung University
  • Jijun Tang, University of South Carolina
  • Lu Tian, Stanford University
  • Stephen Tsui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Alfonso Valencia, CNIO
  • Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University
  • Li-san Wang, University of Pennsylvania
  • Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong
  • Hsei-Wei Wang, National Yang-Ming University
  • Ka-Chun Wong, City University of Hong Kong
  • Hong Yan, City University of Hong Kong
  • Jinn-Moon Yang, National Chiao Tung University
  • S.M. Yiu, The University of Hong Kong
  • Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
  • Xuegong Zhang, Tsinghua University
  • Xiang Zhang, Case Western Reserve University
  • Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Stanford University
  • Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
  • Xing-Ming Zhao, Tongji University
  • Zhongming Zhao, Vanderbilt University
  • Jie Zheng, Nanyang Technological University
  • Fengfeng Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University
  • Shanfeng Zhu, Fudan University
  • Christine Sinoquet, University De Nantes, France
  • Fan Zhang, Google, US
  • Fei Guo, Tianjin University, China

• Steering Committee

  • Phoebe Chen (Chair), Ph.D. La Trobe University, Australia
  • Sang Yup Lee, KAIST, Korea
  • Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Mark Ragan, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore
  • Michael Q. Zhang, CHSL, USA and Tsinghua University, China