Principal Investigator

Shuxing Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Cancer Biology Program
Head, Intelligent Molecular Discovery Laboratory (iMDLab)

University of Hawai'i Cancer Center
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Office: 701 Ilalo St
Phone: (808) 564-3802
Fax: (808) 586-2970
Email: shuxing[AT]hawaii[DOT]edu or shuxing[AT]imdlab[DOT]org


Lab Members

Jiaheng Li, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry
Interest: Medicinal chemistry, rational drug design,
structure-activity relationship, high-throughput screening,
computational modeling.
Email: jiaheng AT hawaii.edu


Mohammadjavad (Mo) Mohammadi, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Interest: Computational chemistry, drug discovery,
molecular modeling, AI/ML, quantum chemistry,
software development.
Email: mmohamma AT hawaii.edu


Yinan Sun, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences
Interest: Health informatics, human-centered design,
AI-driven digital interventions.
Email: sunyinan AT hawaii.edu


Beibei Huang, Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences
Interest: Computational modeling, AI, machine learning,
large language models, data curatoin, drug discovery and development.
Email: bbh AT imdlab.org



Lance Tasaka
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Interest: Big data and AI/ML, large language models,
drug discovery, protein modeling, health informatics,
precision medicine, cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.
Email: lancert AT hawaii.edu


Tanvir Islam
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Interest: Large language models, protein modeling,
computer-aided drug discovery, digital health,
medical informatics, cancer research.
Email: tislam AT hawaii.edu


Anne Dominique Malig
Undergraduate Data Science
Interest: Data science, large language models,
cancer research, drug discovery.
Email: admalig AT hawaii.edu


Jaylin Morimoto
Undergraduate Computer Science
Interest: Computer science, artificial intelligence,
machine learning, software engineering, creative media.
Email: jaylinm AT hawaii.edu


Hayden Dikeman
Undergraduate Biology
Interest: Medicine, Biochemsitry,
biology, computational biology.
Email: hayden DOT dikeman AT emory.edu


Tyler Lau
Undergraduate Biology
Interest: Medicine, cancer research,
drug discovery and development.
Email: tlau88 AT hawaii.edu




Former Group Members

Zhi Tan
Ph.D. Student and Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
John K. Morrow
Ph.D. Student
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Think Bioscience, Boulder, CO
Lon W. Fong
Ph.D. Student
Current Position: Data Scientist, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Rajan Chaudhary
Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Computational Chemist at Eurofins, San Diego, CA
Luo Song
Graduate Student
Current Position: Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Mike Cato, Jr.
Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Senior Licensing Manager, Rice University, Houston, TX
Srinivas Reddy Alla
Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Data Scientist, JPMorgan Chase, Dallas, TX
Hoang Tran
Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Director, Center for Research Computing, The University of Kansas
Lei Du-cuny
Post-doctoral Researcher
Current Position: Research Statistician, AbbVie, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Longzhang (Alex) Tian
Reasearch Assistant
Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Uber, San Francisco, CA
Sharangdhar Phatak
Reasearch Assistant
Current Position: Head Lab digitalization, Life Biosciences, Cambridge, MA
Lu Chen
Reasearch Assistant
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Recursion, Salt Lake City, Utah
Nhi Le
Ph.D. Student
Current Position: Ph.D Student, Rice University, Houston, TX
Nathan T. Ihle
Rotation Student
Current Position: Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer, San Diego, CA
Geoffrey Grandjean
Rotation Student
Current Position: Senior Customer Experience Liaison, Thermo Fisher Scientific, La Jolla, CA
Diana Machado
Rotation Student
Current Position: Ph.D Student, UTHealth/MD Anderson GSBS
Luis Fernandez
Rotation Student
Current Position: Ph.D Student, UTHealth/MD Anderson GSBS
Connie Liu
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Founder, Project Invent, Palo Alto, California
Amy Chyao
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Presidential Scholar, Harvard Law School
Emily He
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: MIT
Jaewon You
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Columbia University
Edgar Ferrer-Gonzalez
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Rutgers University
Chen Yao
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Rice University
Arjun Menta
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: UT Austin
Madhav Gupta
Summer Intern Student
Current Position: Analyst, J.P. Morgan, Austin, TX