Who's who in BeeSpace
Principal Investigator: Bruce Schatz
Co-PI's:
Chip Bruce (education)
Susan Fahrbach (bee neuroanatomy)
Gene Robinson (bee genomics)
Sandra Rodriguez-Zas (statistics)
ChengXiang Zhai (bioinformatics)
Professional staff (Bruce Schatz, Chip Bruce):
David Arcoleo (lead developer)
Barry Sanders (sr. research programmer)
Brant Chee (research programmer)
Jim Buell (research coordinator)
Graduate Students:
Computer Group (Cheng Zhai, Bruce Schatz)
Jing Jiang (Computer Science)
Qiaozhu Mei (Computer Science)
Yuanhua Lv (Computer Science)
Peixiang Zhao (Computer Science)
Bioinformatics Group (Bruce Schatz, Cheng Zhai, Sandra Rodriguez-Zas)
Xu Ling (Computer Science)
Xin He (Computer Science)
Heather Adams (Animal Sciences)
Biology group (Gene Robinson, Susan Fahrbach)
Moushumi Sen Sarma (Entomology)
Amy Toth (Entomology)
Cedric Alaux (Entomology)
Scott Kreher (Neuroscience)
Sophia Liang (Neuroscience)
Collaborating Faculty
Saurabh Sinha (Computer Science)
Ruth Kantorovitz (Computer Science)
Jiawei Han (Computer Science)
Sheng Zhong (Bioengineering)
Roxana Girju (Linguistics)
John MacMullen (Library and Information Science)
Wai-Tat Fu (Human Factors Division)
Barbara Hug (Education)
Collaborating Teachers
David Stone (University High School)
Joan Campagnolo (Campus Middle School)
![]() | Sanders, Barry Barry Sanders - Sr. Research Programmer |
![]() | Arcoleo, David |
| Buell, Jim Jim Buell, BeeSpace research coordinator, specializes in education and outreach aspects of the project. |
| Chee, Brant Brant Chee is a research programmer with the project. |
![]() | He, Xin xinhe2@uiuc.edu Xin He is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. He works with ChengXiang Zhai's bioinformatics group. |
| Jiang, Jing Jing Jiang is a Ph.D. student in the UIUC Department of Computer Science, working with ChengXiang Zhai. Her research interest is in information retrieval and biology literature mining. |
| Ling, Xu Xu Ling is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC. She works with ChengXiang Zhai's Integrative Bioinformatics Group. |
| Mei, Qiaozhu Qiaozhu Mei is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC. An advisee of ChengXiang Zhai, he works in the Integrative Bioinformatics and Information Retrieval group. |






