Dr. Jiaying Lai

Jiaying (Jillian) Lai is a postdoctoral fellow at the Karchin Lab, specializing in computational biology. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research focuses on developing computational methods and bioinformatics pipelines using machine learning and Bayesian statistics. Currently, she’s working on reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumors by leveraging multi-omics data, aiming to provide insights into their development and progression.