Members

Director

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Ji-Hyun Lee

Professor & Associate Director for Cancer Quantitative Sciences

Phone: (352) 273-9079

Email: jihyun.lee@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0001-6420-5150

Biostatistics Unit Leader

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Xiangyang Lou Ph.D.

Research Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5933

Email: xlou@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-8305-827X

Clinical Trials Unit Leader

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Tuo Lin

Research Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 273-7557

Email: tuolin@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-4495-8865

Bioinformatics Unit Leader

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Jason O Brant

Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 273-9110

Email: jobrant@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-9800-9251

Computational Biology Unit Leaders

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Li Chen

Associate Professor & Associate Director of Bioinformatics at UF Center for Spatial Biomolecule Research (CASBR)

Phone: (352) 294-5909

Email: li.chen1@ufl.edu

Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL

Qianqian Song

Assistant Professor & Director of Translational Bioinformatics

Email: qsong1@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-4455-5302

About Our Members

Biostatistics & Computational Biology Shared Resource members are embedded in UF Health Cancer Institute research programs and support researchers in collaboration with other shared resources.

Biostatistics​

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Rhonda Bacher

Associate Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5914

Email: rbacher@ufl.edu

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Susmita Datta

Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5923

Email: susmita.datta@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCI BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Tara Hashemian MS

Biostatistician II

Phone: (352) 273-8689

Email: thashemian@ufl.edu

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

John A Kairalla

Research Professor and Associate Program Director

Phone: (352) 294-5918

Email: johnkair@ufl.edu

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Derek M Li MS

Graduate Assistant

Phone: (352) 294-5770

Email: derekli96@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCC BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Gonghao Liu MS

Biostatistician

Phone: (352) 273-5799

Email: gonghao.liu@ufl.edu

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Zhigang Li

Associate Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5915

Email: zhigang.li@ufl.edu

Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology

Lauren M McIntyre

Professor

Phone: (352) 273-8024

Email: mcintyre@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCC CRO PRJ MGMT NET OPS

Alexandra G Leggett MS, CCRP

Clinical Data Analyst II

Phone: (352) 273-9785

Email: agmueller@ufl.edu

Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL

Keith E Muller Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5975

Email: kmuller@ufl.edu

Department: Biobehavioral Nursing Science

Yingwei Yao PhD

Research Associate Professor

Phone: (352) 273-6524

Email: y.yao@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCC BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Zhongyue Zhang MS

Biostatistician II

Phone: (352) 273-8291

Email: zhongyue.zhang@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCI BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Ada Wang MS

Biostatistician II

Phone: (352) 273-5281

Email: wangpengchen@ufl.edu

Bioinformatics

Department: MD-GASTROENTEROLOGY

Raad Gharaibeh Ph.D.

Program Director & Research Associate Professor

Phone: (352) 294-8777

Email: raad.gharaibeh@medicine.ufl.edu

Department: Department of Epidemiology

Simone Marini PHD

Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 294-8951

Email: simone.marini@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCI BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Kalyanee Shirlekar MS

Bioinformatician III

Phone: (352) 273-6886

Email: kshirlekar@ufl.edu

Department: HA-UFHCI BIOSTAT COMP BIOL SR

Heather R Kates PhD

Bioinformatician III

Phone: (352) 294-5536

Email: hkates@ufl.edu

Computational Biology

Department: EG-BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Xiao Fan

Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 273-9222

Email: xfan@bme.ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-8526-6945

Department: MD-PULMONARY SYSTEMS MEDICINE

Helen Moore PhD

Associate Professor

Phone: (352) 273-2718

Email: helen.moore@medicine.ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-2185-2785

Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
mferrall.fairbanks@bme.ufl.edu

Kiley Graim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
kgraim@ufl.edu

Cancer AI Working Group Co-Leaders

Department: MD-SURGERY-GEN-TRANSPLANT

Ali Zarrinpar MD, PhD

Professor

Phone: (352) 265-0606

Email: ali.zarrinpar@surgery.ufl.edu

Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL

Qianqian Song

Assistant Professor & Director of Translational Bioinformatics

Email: qsong1@ufl.edu

Kiley Graim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
kgraim@ufl.edu

Cancer Imaging Research Focus Group

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Xiangyang Lou Ph.D.

Research Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5933

Email: xlou@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-8305-827X

Department: PHHP-COM BIOSTATISTICS

Arkaprava Roy

Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 294-5924

Email: arkaprava.roy@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0001-6976-9967

Department: MD-MED QUANTITATIVE HEALTH

Wei Shao

Assistant Professor

Phone: (352) 273-5354

Email: weishao@ufl.edu

ORCID: 0000-0003-4931-4839

Kuang Gong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
kgong@bme.ufl.edu

Interns and Students

Summer and Fall 2025 Intern

Zhuochao Huang
zhuochao.huang@ufl.edu

Summer 2023 Intern

Zhongping He
z.he@ufl.edu

Summer 2022 Intern

Yujia Guo
yujiaguo@ufl.edu

Fall 2021 Intern

Derek Li
derekli96@ufl.edu

Spring 2021 Intern

Jason Liu
jasonliu@ufl.edu

2020 Intern

Peter Chang
pchang27@ufl.edu

2019 Intern

Alexandra Leggett, M.S.
agmueller@ufl.edu