Conference Committees

Local organizing committee:

  • Zhou Fan

  • Fan Li

  • Shuangge (Steven) Ma (co-chair)

  • Brian MacDonald

  • Guangyu (Tony) Tong

  • Zuoheng (Anita) Wang

  • Joshua Warren

  • Yihong Wu (co-chair)

  • Holly Zoeller

Advisory Committee:

  • Kun Chen, University of Connecticut

  • Minghui Chen, University of Connecticut

  • Shariq Mohammed, Boston University/NESS

  • Sammi Tang, Astellas

  • Colin Wu, NIH

Program Committee

  • Mihaela Aslan, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

  • Ashley Buchannan, University of Rhode Island

  • Zhen Chen, NIH

  • Yeongjin Gwon, University of Nebraska Medical Center

  • Bo Huang, Pfizer

  • Priya Kohli, Connecticut College

  • Glen Laird, Virtex

  • Jianchang Lin, Takeda

  • Ching-Ti Liu Boston, University

  • Dacheng Liu, Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Jeffrey Miller, Harvard University

  • Lei Nie, FDA

  • Satrajit Roychoudhury, Pfizer

  • Naitee Ting, StatsVita

  • Linda Valeri, Columbia University

  • Chengguang Wang, Regeneron

  • Lin Wang, Insmed

  • Jing Wu, University of Rhode Island

  • Donghui Yan, University of Massachusetts

  • Denise Yi, Servier

  • Qi Zhang, Sanofi

  • Vickie Zhang, Servier

  • Hua (Judy) Zhong, Cornell University

Student Awards Committee

  • Ashley Buchanan – University of Rhode Island

  • Jeff Buzas – University of Vermont

  • Xinyuan Chen – Mississippi State University

  • Roberta DeVito – Brown University

  • Rui Duan – Harvard University

  • Nadeesha Jayaweera – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Daeyoung Kim – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Fatima Shafie Khorassani – Boston University

  • Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia – Smith College

  • Fan Li (Chair) – Yale University

  • Wenrui Li – University of Connecticut

  • Tao Liu – Brown University

  • Rong Ma – Harvard University

  • Jeffrey Miller – Harvard University

  • Rajarshi Mukherjee – Harvard University

  • Haben Michael – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Arman Oganisian – Brown University

  • Yuki Ohnishi – Yale University

  • Vladimir Pozdnyakov – University of Connecticut

  • Jing Qian – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Douglas E. Schaubel – University of Pennsylvania

  • Adam Sales – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Neil Spencer – University of Connecticut

  • Molin Wang – Harvard University

  • Xiao Wu – Columbia University

  • Wenbo Wu – New York University

  • Qi Zhang – University of New Hampshire

  • Yichi Zhang – University of Rhode Island

  • Yize Zhao – Yale University

  • Qian Zhao – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Yi Zhao – Indiana University

Committee Members for the NESS Student Paper Competition

Committee Members for the NESS Student Poster Competition

  • Sreeram Anantharaman -- Brown University

  • Howard Chang -- Emory University

  • Ming-Hui Chen --University of Connecticut

  • Patrick Flaherty -- University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Jiangtao Gou -- Villanova University

  • Cong Jiang -- Harvard University

  • Suyeon Kang -- University of Central Florida

  • Dan Kowal -- Cornell University

  • Jackson Lautier -- Bentley University

  • Eva Murphy -- Wake Forest University

  • Ye Shen -- Vertex

  • Guangyu (Tony) Tong -- Yale University

  • Swathi Venkatesan -- Fairfield University

  • Kai Wang -- University of Iowa

  • Zuoheng (Anita) Wang (Chair) -- Yale University

  • Fan Wu -- Sanofi

  • Ziping Xu -- Harvard University

  • Ce Yang -- Vertex

  • Ying Zhou -- University of Connecticut

Financial Committee

  • Guangyu (Tony) Tong, Fundraising lead, Yale

  • Vickie Zhang, NESS treasurer, Servier

  • Ying Zhou, NESS treasurer, University of Connecticut

Statathon

Student Research Awards

Student Poster Awards

Technical Support and Student Leads