Meet the Team

  • Hoang Dinh

    Hoang Dinh

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

    PhD Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

    Hoang is developing computational genome-scale models to infer metabolism from multiomic data. He enjoys playing video games and going for a walk in his free time.

  • John Guirguis

    RESEARCH SPECIALIST

    BA Computational Biology, Computer Information and Science Technologies, UPenn

  • Hyelee Kim

    BE PHD STUDENT (CO-MENTORED WITH DENG LAB)

    Master, Bioengineering, Korea University

    BE Biomedical Engineering, Korea University

  • Mariam Rizvi

    UNDERGRAD (CLASS 2026)

    BA Computational Biology

  • Yihui Shen

    Yihui Shen

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

    Postdoc, Princeton University

    PhD Chemistry, Columbia University

    BA Chemistry, Peking University

  • Jiazhen Zhang

    BE MASTER STUDENT

    BE Biomedical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  • YOU

    THE FUTURE SCIENTIST

Come Join Us!

The Shen lab will open its door in Jan 2024 in the Bioengineering department at University of Pennsylvania. We welcome trainees from a variety of backgrounds including bioengineering, chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, metabolism, computational biology, and related fields. Email Yihui if you are interested in imaging and metabolism!

We aim to build an inclusive environment to support our trainees. We encourage students from underrepresented groups to apply to our BE graduate program. We also welcome students from other graduate programs. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if interested!

Yongqi Huang

Ricardo A. Velázquez Aponte

Alumni

Summer intern, 2024-2024, currently undergrad in Shanghai Jiaotong University

BMB rotation, 2024-2024, currently PhD student in Joseph Baur Lab

Jan 2024

Nov 2023

Sept 2023

NEWS

The Shen lab welcomes its first rotation student, Ricardo Velázquez Aponte! Ricardo is now a first-year PhD student in the BMB graduate group.

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Hoang Dinh to join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Hoang came to us from Prof. Costas Maranas’s group at Penn State University.

We installed our mass spec with our science partner in crime the Bartman Lab @ Penn Medicine 🙌🙌🙌 Ready to make great data out of it 🤩!! (Photo credit to @CarolineBartman)

April 2024

Mar 2024

We are very excited to have Jiazhen Zhang (BE Master program) and Anushka Chintamaneni (BE undergrad) join the lab! They will have some fun exploring machine learning in analyzing Raman spectra.

We got our first funding support from Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB) seed program to study mechanoregulation of cancer metabolism! Thanks CEMB for supporting our science

May 2024

Afternoon tea time at Maison Sweet as we say goodbye to Ricardo and get ready for the summer!