Our Team
Education
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2006- B.E., Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
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2008- M.S., Pharmaceutical Analysis, Zhejiang University
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2013- Ph.D., Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Xin Huang, Ph.D. (PI)
Dr. Xin Huang graduated from the Mixed Class at Chu Kochen Honors College (with a B.E. degree in Computer Science) in 2006 and from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2008 at Zhejiang University. From 2008 to 2013, he pursued his PhD at the Department of Pathology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States, where he focused on studying the impact of microRNAs on the development of B-cell lymphoma. He then conducted postdoctoral research under the guidance of Dr. Jianlong Wang at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and joined the Columbia Center for Human Development (CCHD) at Columbia University in 2019 to continue research on stem cells and early development. During his PhD and postdoctoral training, his first-author papers were published in journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Developmental Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, and Protein & Cell.
In July 2023, he was promoted to Assistant Professor (PI) at Department of Medicine, Columbia University, and he has received funding support from NIH, including the NIH Exploratory & Developmental Research Grant Award (R21, 2022-2025) and the NIH Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA, R35, 2024-2029).
In July 2025, the Huang Lab has relocated to the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Education
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2019- B.S., Animal Science, Sichuan Agricultural University
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2024- Ph.D., Animal Science, Zhejiang University, China
Lieying Xiao, Ph.D. (Postdoc)
Dr. Lieying Xiao graduated from Sichuan Agriculture University in 2019 and graduated from Zhejiang University in 2024. During her Ph.D. training (2019~2024) supervised by Dr. Kun Zhang in Zhejiang University, she studied epigenetic and chromatin reprogramming in early embryonic development and cell fate determination. She is also an expert in the high-throughput epigenomics and single cell transcriptome for low-input embryos.
Dr. Xiao joined Dr. Huang's lab in May 2025. She will study the epigenetic regulation of R-loops in pluripotency and early development.
Education
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Biochemistry, UCLA
Travis Kobus (Undergraduate)
Travis Kobus is an undergraduate student at UCLA majoring in Biochemistry. He studies RNA-protein interactions in mouse embryonic stem cells using crosslinking immunoprecipitation (CLIP)-based biochemical approaches under the supervision of Dr. Xin Huang.
Travis joined Dr. Huang's lab in January 2026 as a third-year UCLA student.
Education
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Cognitive Science, UCLA
Grace Zhou (Undergraduate)
Grace Zhou is an undergraduate student at UCLA majoring in Cognitive Science. She studies the functions of Zfp281 in early development using a cell state transition model under the supervision of Dr. Xin Huang.
Grace joined Dr. Huang's lab in March 2026 as a second-year UCLA student.
Education
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2019- M.D., Central South University, China.
Chengjie Lin, M.D. (Visiting Scholar)
Dr. Chengjie Lin is an attending surgeon in the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, China. He studies the epigenetic regulation in the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and MASH-associated Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), in collaboration with Dr. Bishuang Cai in the Division of Digestive Disease at UCLA.
Dr. Lin joined Dr. Huang's lab in April 2026 as a Visiting Scholar.
Alumni
Name Time in Huang Lab Current Position
Tina Zhou (Undergraduate) 11.2025 - 06.2026 UCLA