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Selected past lab members’ career growth after their time in our lab.

Postdoctoral Research Fellows:
  • Mengyu Wang, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2015 to 2017. Next Position after Training Completion: Instructor in Ophthalmology Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear at Harvard Medical School.
  • Mohammad Eslami, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2020 to 2023. Next Position after Training Completion: Instructor in Ophthalmology Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear at Harvard Medical School.
  • Min Shi, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2022 to 2024. Next Position after Training Completion: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
  • Yu Tian, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2022 to 2024. Next Position after Training Completion: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Central Florida.
  • Vishal Sharma, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2021 to 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
  • Mojtaba Fazli, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2021 to 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: Innovation Scholar for Open Innovation, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
  • Yangjiani Li, MD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2019 to 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: Resident in Ophthalmology at Zhongshan Opthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University.
  • Qingying Jin, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2015 to 2016. Next Position after Training Completion: Promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychology at Jilin University.
  • Hui Wang, PhD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2015 to 2016. Next Position after Training Completion: Promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Jilin University of Finance and Economics.
  • Vasil Kostin, MD. Lab Role: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2024. Next Position after Training Completion: PhD Student in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at University of Oxford.
Graduate Research Assistants:
  • Carola Rutigliani, MD. Lab Role: Graduate Medical Research Assistant in 2023. Next Position after Training Completion: Postdoctoral Researcher in Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University.
  • Ava Kouhana. Lab Role: Graduate Master’s Research Assistant in 2023. Next Position after Training Completion: Master’s Student at Stanford University.
  • Bettina Teng. Lab Role: Graduate Medical Research Assistant in 2019. Next Position after Training Completion: Resident in Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.
  • Dian Li, MS. Lab Role: Postgraduate Research Assistant from 2017 to 2019. Next Position after Training Completion: PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Jorryt Tichelaar. Lab Role: Graduate Master’s Research Assistant in 2019. Next Position after Training Completion: PhD Student at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Undergraduate Research Assistants: 
  • Christine Pang. Lab Role: Undergraduate Research Assistant in 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: MD Student at Peking Union Medical College.
  • Chanbin Lee, BS. Lab Role: Postbaccalaureate Research Assistant from 2021 to 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: MD Student at Brown University.
High School Research Assistants: 
  • Yuying Fan. Lab Role: High School Research Assistant in 2019.  Next Position after Training Completion: Undergraduate Student at University of Pennsylvania.
  • Melody Tang. Lab Role: High School Research Assistant in 2022. Next Position after Training Completion: Undergraduate Student at Cornell University.
  • Abhilash Katuru. Lab Role: High School Research Assistant in 2023. Next Position after Training Completion: Undergraduate Student in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University.