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Li, Yuè (李岳), PhD

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I obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science and Computational Biology at University of Toronto in 2014. Prior to joining McGill, I was a postdoctoral associate at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (2015-2018).

Postdoctoral Researchers

Jun Bai

Jun Bai

  • Research: Federated learning in health
  • Graduated from: Deakin University
  • Start: 2025
Kunpeng Xu

Kunpeng Xu

PhD Students

Adrien Osakwe

Adrien Osakwe

  • Program: Quantitative Life Science
  • Co-supervisor: Rob Sladek
  • Research: Topic models in single-cell genomics
  • Start: 2022
Claris Gu

Claris Gu

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Genome language models
  • Start: 2024 (Master-to-PhD fast-track)
Doruk Cakmakci

Doruk Cakmakci

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Genome language models
  • Start: 2021
Dylan Mann-Krzisnik

Dylan Mann-Krzisnik

  • Program: Quantitative Life Science
  • Research: Single-cell multi-omic integration
  • Start: 2022
Shadi Zabad

Shadi Zabad

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Bayesian polygenic risk score inference
  • Co-supervisor: Simon Gravel
  • Start: 2020
Vishvak Raghavan

Vishvak Raghavan

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Cell-cell communication inference from spatial transcriptomes
  • Co-supervisor: Jun Ding
  • Start: 2023
Weiyi Xiao

Weiyi Xiao

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Spatial transcriptome modelling
  • Co-supervisor: Qihuang Zhang
  • Start: 2024
Vicky Dong

Vicky Dong

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Gene regulatory network
  • Master's from Li Lab: 2023-2025
  • Start: 2025
Yixuan Li

Yixuan Li

  • Program: Mathematics and Statistics
  • Research: Topic models
  • Co-supervisor: Archer Yang
  • Start: 2021

Master's Students

Bo-Hong Wang

Bo-Hong Wang

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Time-series LLM
  • Start: 2024
Connor Clark-Baba

Connor Clark-Baba

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Automatic biobank phenotyping
  • Co-supervisor: Audrey Grant
  • Start: 2025
Eric Huang

Eric Huang

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Single-cell temporal modeling
  • Start: 2025
Jack Song

Jack Song

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Polygenic risk score regression
  • Start: 2025
Neda Esfehani

Neda Esfehani

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Epigenetic modeling
  • Co-supervisor: Corina Nagy
  • Start: 2024
Ruilin Wang

Ruilin Wang

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Clinical LLM
  • Co-supervisor: Marie Hudson
  • Start: 2024

Research Assistant

Ziqi Yang

Ziqi Yang

  • Research: Computational phenotyping using UK Biobank data
  • Start: 2023

Undergradate student

Elizabeth Kourbatski

Elizabeth Kourbatski

Mona Wang

Mona Wang

  • Research: transcriptome and histology image integration
  • Start: 2025

Visiting Students

Manqi Zhou

Manqi Zhou

  • Program: Computational Biology PhD
  • Research: Single-cell multi-omic integration
  • Supervisor: Fei Wang
  • Start: 2021

Recent Lab Alumni (2024-)

PhD graduates
Ziyang Song

Ziyang Song

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Statistical and deep learning in EHR
  • Start: 2020-2025
MSc graduates
Caiya Zhang

Caiya Zhang

  • Program: Computer Science
  • Research: Multi-modal EHR integration
  • Start: 2023-2025
Visiting students
Emirhan Tekoglu

Emirhan Tekoglu

  • Home: Koc University, Turkey
  • Research: Transcription factor co-occupancy
  • Supervisor: Nathan Lack
  • Start: 2024-2025

Earlier Lab Alumni (2019-2024)

    Postdocs
    1. Swapna Lakshmipuram Seshadri (joined 2020 March - 2023 March)
    2. Ahmad Pesaranghader (2021 January - 2022 January)
    Graduate students
    1. Yimin Fan (Computer Science) (joined 2022 Fall and left in 2023 due to Visa issue) (formerly co-supervised with Jun Ding)
    2. Michael Huang (Computer Science) (2020 - 2023)
    3. Pei Liu (Hunan University, China) (2022 Winter - 2023 Fall)
    4. Xueyang Zhang (Computer Science) (joined 2022 Fall, graduated in 2024 Spring)
    5. Harry Moroz (Digital health) (co-supervised with Ariane Marelli) (joined 2021 Fall)
    6. Yuesong Zou (Computer Science) (joined 2020 Fall and graduated in 2023 Spring)
    7. Shih-Chieh Fuh (Computer Science) (joined 2019 Fall and graduated in 2023 Spring)
    8. Yuening Wang (Computer Science Master's degree - completed) (co-supervised by Audrey Grant from Department of Anesthesia) (2019 Fall - 2021 September)
    9. Sydney Sue (Human Genetics master's degree - completed) (co-supervised with Gustavo Turecki and Corina Nagy from Department of Psychiatry at McGill) (2020 Fall - 2022 January)
    10. Bruce (Zhi) Wen (Computer Science Master's degree - completed) (2019 Fall - 2021 July)
    11. Yuanyi Hu (SURA 2021)
    12. Si Yi Li (Computer Science Master's degree) (May - December 2019)
    13. Bowei Xiao (Quantitative Life Science Program PhD Candidate) (QLS rotation 2020 Summer)
    14. Joseph Szmorski (Quantitative Life Science Program PhD Candidate) (May - December 2019)
    15. Cristian Groza (Quantitative Life Science Program PhD Candidate) (QLS rotation 2019 Fall)
    16. Pratheeksha Nair (Computer Science PhD Candidate) (Fall 2019 - Summer 2020)
    17. Amir Ardalan Kalantari Dehaghi (Computer Science Master Candidate) (Summer 2019 - Summer 2020)
    18. Matias Calderini (RA) (2020 March - 2021 April)
    19. Xavier Sumba Toral (Concordia-McGill master's student) (Summer 2019)
    20. Mojtaba Bahrami (Internship MSc student from Sherif University of Technology, Iran) (2019 October - 2020 April)
    21. Wenmin Zhang (Quantitative Life Science)
    Undergraduates
    1. Ruohan Wang (COMP 400)
    2. Ruiyang Wang (SURA 2021 - 2023, co-supervised by Xiangfei Meng)
    3. Tianhang Chen (2022-2023) (Volunteer co-supervised with Jun Ding)
    4. Taokai Li (The Hongkong Polytechnic University)
    5. Sophie Ju (Undergraduate project) (Summer 2020 - Winter 2021)
    6. Michelle Wang (MiCM Summer Scholar) (Summer 2020 - Winter 2021) (co-supervised by Xiangfei Meng from Department of Psychiatry at McGill)
    7. Jean EI Khoury (Summer internship, Polytechnique, France) (March - August, 2021)
    8. Xing Han Lu (Computer Science undergraduate) (2019 - 2021)
    9. Yifan Zhao (McGill SURA 2020)
    10. Yue Lyu (McGill SURA 2020)
    11. Theophile Buffiere (Summer internship, Polytechnique, France) (March - August, 2019)
    12. Yan Miao (SURA summer internship, Computer Science, McGill) (SURA 2019)
    13. Meijia Li (COMP 396)
    14. Mark Bai (NSERC USRA 2021)
    15. Amanda Liu (Undergraduate project) (Summer 2019 - Winter 2020)
    16. Wan-Chun Su (Undergraduate project) (Summer 2019 - Winter 2020)
    17. Ting-Yi Su (Undergraduate project) (Fall 2019 - Winter 2020)
    18. Lucy Xiang (Undergraduate project) (Fall 2019 - Winter 2020)
    19. Yunxi Chen (Undergraduate project) (Fall 2019 - Winter 2020)
    20. Weiqi (Agnes) Liu (Undergraduate project) (Fall 2019 - Winter 2020)
    21. Ashley Xu (Undergraduate project) (Winter 2020)
    22. Rica Zhang (Undergraduate project) (Summer 2020)
    23. Maoyu Wang (Volunteer project) (Summer 2020)
    Collaborators
    1. Audrey Grant (Department of Anesthesia)
    2. Ariane Marelli (Department of experimental medicine, MUHC)
    3. Corina Nagy (Douglas)
    4. David Buckeridge (School of Population and Global Health)
    5. Dianbo Liu (National University of Singapore)
    6. Elena Netchiporouk (MUHC)
    7. Fei Wang (Weill Cornell Medicine)
    8. Gustavo Turecki (Douglas)
    9. Jun Ding (MUHC)
    10. Marc-André Legault (University of Montreal)
    11. Marie Hudson (Department of experimental medicine, MUHC)
    12. Mathieu Blanchette (CS)
    13. Qihuang Zhang (EBOH)
    14. Simon Gravel (Department of Human Genetics)
    15. Xiangfei Meng (Department of Psychiatry, Douglas)
    16. Archer Yang (Math and Stats)