Jingwen Yan

Jingwen Yan is an Associate Professor and Director of the Bioinformatics Program at Indiana University Indianapolis, within the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. She leads the Jingwen Lab, focusing on integrating multi-omics and neuroimaging data to study neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. She holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Indiana University (2015).

Research Interests: Machine learning, network science, genotype-phenotype associations, multi-omics integration, biomarker discovery, and systems biology. Her work emphasizes developing computational frameworks to analyze complex biological data for disease marker identification and treatment design.

Funding & Awards: Recipient of NIH R01 and NSF CAREER awards. Current grants include NIH U19 and U01 (Co-I), plus an NSF collaborative grant on model debiasing. Recognized with the 2023 Research Frontiers Trailblazers Award.

Teaching & Advising: Instructs courses like INFO-B 419/519 (Bioinformatics) and INFO-B 473/573 (Programming for Biomedical Data Analysis). Advised students Linhui Xie, Bing He, and Pradeep Pugalenthi (Ph.D. recipients in 2024).

Labs & Affiliations: Director of the Jingwen Lab and Data Lab. Affiliated with the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Center for Neuroimaging, and Network Science Institute at IU.