Students

Student Leadership

Student Chairs

Elections for new student chairs are held in in the spring semester for terms that start in June. The faculty mentors for each chair are listed in parentheses.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair: Kevin Jin (Steven Kleinstein)
  • Outreach Chair: Lucy Zheng (Hoon Cho)
  • Peer Mentorship Chair: Jessica Kasamoto (Robert McDougal)
  • Social Chair: Jake Sumner (Jeffrey Townsend)

Student Government

  • GSA Representative(s): Jessica Graham

Jump to: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015,2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

* denotes December graduates


2025

Tos Chan (2025 - )

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Dana Dayan (2025 - )

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Alma Dubuc (2025 - )

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Emilee Grisham (2025 - )

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Gabrianne Ivey (2025 - )

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Phillip Kang (2025 - )

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Varada Khanna (2025 - )

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Ivy Liang (2025 - )

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Susanna Liu (2025 - )

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Jon Mallen (2025 - )

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Giacomo Marino (2025 - )

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Anna Mikulevica (2025 - )

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Antonia Panescu (2025 - )

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Kaitlyn Ramesh (2025 - )

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Hildana Shiferaw (2025 - )

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Tahamid Siam (2025 - )

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Serena Tuytschaevers (2025 - )

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Allen Wang (2025 - )

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2024

Zhiyuan Cao (2024 - )

Advisers: Hua Xu, Qingyu Chen

Inna Cohen (2024 - )

Advisers: Mark Iscoe, Daniella Meeker

Andres Cordoba (2024 - )

Adviser: Corey O’Hern

Sam Fenske (2024 - )

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Yuan Gao (2024 - )

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Kira Glasmacher (2024 - )

Adviser: Jeffrey Townsend

Kexing Li (2024 - )

Adviser: Jeffrey Townsend

Cynthia Yihan Liu (2024 - )

Adviser:

Yihan Liu (2024 - )

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Erica Stutz (2024 - )

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Caroline Sullivan (2024 - )

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

Zhaochen Ye (2024 - )

Advisers: David Braun, Steven Kleinstein

Haley Xiaohe Zhang (2024 - )

Advisers: Joel Gelernter, Hua Xu


2023

Trevor Brokowski (2023 - )

Adviser: Cynthia Brandt

Christine Dien (2023 - )

Adviser: John Tsang

Kevin Jin (2023 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-9217-4803

Adviser: Hua Xu

Xinyun Li (2023 - )

Adviser: Nenad Sestan

Yuntian Liu (2023 - )

Advisers: Hua Xu, Yuan Lu

Aatmik Mallya (2023 - )

Adviser: Damon Clark

Leona Wang (2023 - )

Adviser: Lucila Ohno-Machado

Lucy Zheng (2023 - )

Advisers: Hoon Cho, Kurt Schalper


2022

Ardavan Abiri (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0003-3021-6147

Adviser: Sidi Chen

Jenel Fraij Armstrong (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0009-0001-4401-0986

Adviser: Albert Higgins-Chen

Jess Graham (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0003-2962-6763

Adviser: David Braun

Ao Huang (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-6215-3908

Adviser: John Tsang

Jessica Kasamoto (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4604-6093

Adviser: Albert Higgins-Chen

Keyi Li (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7421-0121

Advisers: Yuval Kluger, Rong Fan

Tianyu Liu (2022 - )

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

Chang Lu (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0003-0169-529X

Adviser: Yuval Kluger

Burhan Sabuwala (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7291-3923

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

Anna Su (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7702-5044

Advisers: Mark Gerstein, Jeff Brock

Weihao Zhao (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-7480-8112

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

Suchen Zheng (2022 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0003-3703-1970

Adviser: Mark Gerstein


2021

Philip Adejumo (2021 - ) [MD-PhD]

Adviser: Rohan Khera

Kriti Agrawal (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-5778-6118

Advisers: Yuval Kluger, Richard Flavell

Donglu Bai (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4800-732X

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

Yuhang Chen (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-9906-4108

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

Andy Chu (2021 - )

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

Mingze Dong (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7367-6819

Advisers: Yuval Kluger, Rong Fan

Cole Jensen (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-9236-4853

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

Andrew Jia (2021 - )

Adviser: Monkol Lek

Yunzhe Jiang (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-8768-0050

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

Huan Li (2021 - 2025) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7541-7052

Adviser: Ted Melnick

“Computational methods for insights from HER data: improving provider productivity and applications to patient outcomes”

Ruiqi Li (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-9053-1678

Adviser: Yuval Kluger

Jake Sumner (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-5000-8292

Adviser: Corey O’Hern

Xin Xin (2021 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-0223-923X

Advisers: Mark Gerstein, Harlan Krumholz

Dingyao Zhang (2021 - )

Advisers: Mark Gerstein, Jun Lu


2020

Sarah Dudgeon (2020 - 2024)

Adviser: Wade Schulz

“Graph Networks and Quantum AI/ML for Real-World Evidence Generation”

Noah Yann Lee (2020 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0001-9309-8585

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

Jason Liu (2020 - 2024*) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7197-7319

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“A Multi-modal Approach to Precision Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Genetics and Disease Using Genomics and Biosensors”

A Ram (2020 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-7138-8423

Adviser: Frederick Altice

Raghav Sehgal (2020 - 2025)

Adviser: Albert Higgins-Chen

“Translating Geroscience to Clinic - Using ML for Insightful and Responsive Aging Biomarkers”

Michelle Yu (2020 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0003-0307-530X

Adviser: Mark Gerstein


2019

Jeremy Gygi (2019 - 2024*) | ORCID: 0000-0001-8567-7472

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Supervised Integration of Multi-Omics Immune Profiles via Latent Factor Modeling”

Wes Lewis (2019 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-1192-8862

Adviser: Yuval Kluger

Yaroslav Markov (2019 - 2025*) | ORCID: 0000-0001-8778-4909

Adviser: Albert Higgins-Chen

“Decoding the Aging Mosaic: Omic Biomarkers for Age-Related Disorders”

Eric Ni (2019 - 2025) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4530-0707

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“Biomedical Privacy and Security: Histology Image Vulnerabilities and Blockchain Solutions”

Vimig Socrates (2019 - 2025) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7955-9875

Adviser: Cynthia Brandt

“On Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Reasoning in Clinical Applications of Large Language Models”

Aarthi Venkat (2019 - 2024) | ORCID: 0000-0003-0298-0172

Adviser: Smita Krishnaswamy

“Geometric representation learning toward insights into cellular and molecular behavior”

Meng (Mamie) Wang (2019 - 2024) | ORCID: 0000-0002-3453-7805

Advisers: Steven Kleinstein, Yuval Kluger

“Learning Embeddings from Adaptive Immune Receptor Sequences”

Junchen Yang (2019 - 2025) | ORCID: 0000-0003-0988-1564

Adviser: Yuval Kluger

“Interpretable and Data-driven Machine Learning Models for Analyzing High-dimensional Biological Data”

Maryam Zekavat (2019 - 2022) [MD-PhD] | ORCID: 0000-0003-4026-8944

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Dissecting the Impact of Clonal Hematopoiesis on age-related disease”

Biqing Zhu (2019 - 2024*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-7428-6297

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Characterizing Neurodegenerative Disorders from Multi-Omics Perspectives”


2018

Edel Aron (2018 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-8683-4772

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

Egbert Castro (2018 - 2023*) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7883-5241

Adviser: Smita Krishnaswamy

“Learning Data-Driven Representations for Biomolecular Analysis, Optimization, and Design”

Guannan Gong (2018 - 2021*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4972-6705

Adviser: Harlan Krumholz

“Next Generation Phenotyping in Clinical Trial based on Real-World Data”

Alex Grigas (2018 - 2024) | ORCID: 0000-0002-1588-2996

Adviser: Corey O’Hern

“Investigating the Connection Between Protein Folding, Polymer Collapse and Jamming”

Jeff Mandell (2018 - 2025*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-3839-2543

Adviser: Jeffrey Townsend

“Inference of Somatic Selection in Cancer: Methods and Applications”

Kyra Thrush (2018 - 2022*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-3991-9597

Adviser: Morgan Levine

“A Peak Through the Noise: Capturing Biological Heterogeneity in Aging with Our Machine Learning Toolkit”


2017

Evan Cudone (2017 - ) | ORCID: 0000-0002-1055-1645

Adviser: Robert McDougal

J. Nic Fisk (2017 - 2023*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-1940-393X

Adviser: Jeffrey Townsend

“Computational and Evolutionary Approaches for Translational Cancer Research”

Jiahao Gao (2017 - 2023*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-6311-3526

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“Multi-scale gene regulation analysis with ChIP-seq and beyond”

Scott Gigante (2017 - 2021) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4544-2764

Adviser: Smita Krishnaswamy

“Diffusion-based approaches to visualization and exploration of high-dimensional data”

Pranav Kantroo (2017 - 2025)

Advisers: Gunter Wagner, Benjamin Machta

“Parkour in Protein Morphospace”

Tianxiao Li (2017 - 2023*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-9147-7511

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“Learning latent representations for biological molecules & their properties”

Wei Liu (2017 - 2022) | ORCID: 0000-0003-2558-1377

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Leverage eQTLs to Understand Genetic Etiology of Human Diseases”

Rihao Qu (2017 - 2024) | ORCID: 0000-0002-8258-8287

Advisers: Yuval Kluger, Richard Flavell

“Deriving Cell and Gene Dynamics from Single-cell Omics Data”

Yixuan Ye (2017 - 2022) | ORCID: 0000-0002-2643-665X

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Making the Most of Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS): Risk Decompositions, Cross-Population Predictions, and Clinical Applications”

Geyu Zhou (2017 - 2022) | ORCID: 0000-0002-4049-0193

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Statistical Methods for Genetic Prediction of Complex Traits in Single and Multiple Populations”


2016

David Chang (2016 - 2021) | ORCID: 0000-0002-2065-0778

Advisers: Cynthia Brandt, Hongyu Zhao

“Natural language processing and graph representation learning for clinical data”

Hussein Mohsen (2016 - 2022)

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“Network Approaches to the Study of Genomic Variation in Cancer”

Jay Stanley (2016 - 2020) | ORCID: 0000-0002-9227-8928

Adviser: Smita Krishnaswamy

“Geometric Data Organization: Algorithms and Applications”

Jiawei Wang (2016 - 2022*) | ORCID: 0000-0003-2627-4897

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Identification of Genetic Implications in Psychiatric Disorders”

Zhaolong (Jerome) Yu (2016 - 2022) | ORCID: 0000-0001-9585-2465

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Leveraging Omics Data for Better Treatment: Computational Methods for Biomarker Identification, Drug Repositioning, and Polypharmacy Risk Assessment”


2015

Daniel Chawla (2015 - 2022*) | ORCID: 0000-0001-7667-9337

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Identifying immunological biomarkers in massive public data”

Dingjue (Frank) Ji (2015 - 2020) | ORCID: 0000-0001-6288-8891

Adviser: Hongyu Zhao

“Integrative Analysis of Neuroimaging, Cognitive Functions and Genetics Data”

Kevin Lopez (2015 - 2020*) | ORCID: 0000-0002-2901-5674

Adviser: Cynthia Brandt

“Machine Learning with Multimodal Data”

Quan (Julian) Zhou (2015 - 2020) | ORCID: 0000-0001-9602-2092

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“B Cell Clonal Lineage and Somatic Hypermutation Profiling Analysis”


2014

Donghoon Lee (2014 - 2019*) | ORCID: 0000-0003-0453-6059

Adviser: Mark Gerstein

“Leveraging Functional Genomic Data: Modeling Transcriptional Dynamics and Interpreting Disease Genomes”

Xiaotong Li (2014 - 2020*) | ORCID: 0000-0003-1644-6835

Advisers: Mark Gerstein, Lajos Pusztai

“Clinical and Translational Cancer Research by Genomics and Transcriptomics Data Analysis”

Ryan Powles (2014 - 2019)

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“Picking Targets: Exploring Genomic Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Across Trials, Treatments, and Tissues”

Jun Zhao (2014 - 2020) | ORCID: 0000-0002-6671-0000

Advisers: Yuval Kluger, Richard Flavell

“Computational Methods for Single Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis”


2013

Jennifer Gaines (2013 - 2018)

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“Computational Studies of Protein Structure”

Mengting Gu (2013 - 2019)

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“A Transferable Framework for Large-Scale Genome Annotation with Applications in Disease Studies”

Alexandra Signoriello (2013 - 2019)

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“Computational modeling of immune cells during tumor development using the deformable particle model”


2012

Stefan Avey (2012 - 2017*)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“A Systems Approach to Understanding Influenza Infection and Vaccination Responses”

Christopher Fragoso (2012 - 2017)

Adviser:

“Computational Methods for Plant Population Genomics”

Michael Klein (2012 - 2019)

Adviser:

“Two Novel Algorithms for Extracting Patient Specific Information from Tumor Biopsies”

Shantao Li (2012 - 2017*)

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“Mining Large-scale Sequencing Reads to Learn Mutational Processes”

Cong Liang (2012 - 2018)

Adviser:

“Mathematical modeling and data analysis in cell type evolutionary studies”

Ruijie Song (2012 - 2019)

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“Volume- and Cell-Cycle-Aware Stochastic Modeling of Gene Networks”

Qian Wang (2012 - 2017*)

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“Statistical Methods of post-GWAS analysis incorporating multiple phenotypes, transcriptome variations, and biological networks”


2011

Yuwei Cheng (2011 - 2016)

Adviser:

“Statistical and computational methods on GWAS and post-GWAS analysis to identify genetic basis of intracranial aneurysm”

Namita Gupta (2011 - 2017)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Computational Identification of B Cell Clones in High-Throughput Immunoglobulin Sequencing Data”

Ken Hui (2011 - 2013) [MD-PhD]

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“Beyond GWAS: Translating the Genetics of Crohn’s Disease”

Tingting Jiang (2011 - 2016*)

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“Statistical and computational methods for integrative analysis in cancer genomics”

Mate Nagy (2011 - 2017)

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“Advanced Information Retrieval and Extraction in Research and Clinical Settings”

Jason Vander Heiden (2011 - 2017)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Computation Methods for the Analysis of B Cell Repertoires and Application to Human Autoimmunity”


2010

Jieming Chen (2010 - 2015*)

Adviser:

“Variant Interpretation in Personal Genomes using Repeat Protein Sequences, Networks and Allele-Specific Analyses”

Yao Fu (2010 - 2015)

Adviser:

“Computational Methods for Estimating Functional Consequences of Genetic Variants and Application to Cancer Genomics”

Xiu Huang (2010 - 2016)

Adviser:

“Some statistical methods on analyzing gene expression and DNA sequencing data towards detection and interpretation of cancer biomarkers”

Cong (Jason) Li (2010 - 2015)

Adviser:

“Some statistical methods for joint analysis of high dimensional genomics data”

Leon (Zhixiang) Lin (2010 - 2015)

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“Some statistical methods for spatial-temporal brain gene expression data”


2009

Mengjie Chen (2009 - 2014)

Adviser:

“Some Statistical Methods for Integrative Analysis in Epigenetics and Cancer Genomics”

Daniel Gadala-Maria (2009 - 2018)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Computational discovery of immunoglobulin genotypes from high-throughput B-cell receptor sequencing data”

Vijay Garla (2009 - 2012*)

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“Kernel Methods and Semantic Techniques for Clinical Text Classification”

Matthew Holford (2009 - 2014)

Adviser:

“Using Semantic Web Tools to Create an Integrated Framework for Biomedical Research”


2008

Christopher Bolen (2008 - 2013)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

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“Computational analysis of blood transcriptional signatures in the study of HCV susceptibility, infection, and therapy response”

Xiaowei Chen (2008 - 2014)

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“Statistical Modeling of Next Generation Sequence Data”

Jing Leng (2008 - 2014)

Adviser:

“Studying the Evolution of Gene Regulation Using Next-Generation Sequencing (Computational Methods and Data Integration”

Lucas Lochovsky (2008 - 2015*)

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“LARVA—an Integrative Framework for Large-scale Analysis of Recurrent Variants in Noncoding Annotations—and Other Tools”

Haisu Ma (2008 - 2013)

Adviser:

“Statistical Modeling for Pathway-based Drug Target Discovery”

Kelly Stanton (2008 - 2015)

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“Harmonic analysis of ChIP-seq”


2007

Raymond Auerbach (2007 - 2012*)

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“Elucidating Transcriptional Regulation Using High-Throughput Sequencing, Data Integration, and Computational Methods”

Lukas Haebegger (2007 - 2012)

Adviser:

“Computational Methodologies for Transcript Analysis in the Age of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing”

Xinmeng Mu (2007 - 2012*)

Adviser:

“A Computational Genomics Study (Characterizing Genomic Variants in Non-coding Regions of the Human Genome”

Taiwo Togun (2007 - 2013)

Adviser:

“A Multivariate Computational Framework to Identify Genomic Biomarkers in Cancer”


2006

Jamie Duke (2006 - 2012*)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Computational Modeling of Genome-Wide Mutation by AID”

Jia Kang (2006 - 2011)

Adviser:

“Building Risk Prediction Model for Complex Genetic Disease Using High Dimensional Genetic Data”

Karen Lostritto (2006 - 2011*)

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“Piecewise Constant Estimation (Extensions of PartDSA and Applications to Cancer and Epidemiological Studies”

Michael Sneddon (2006 - 2012)

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“Overcoming Complexity in Systems Biology Modeling and Simulation”

Mohamed Uduman (2006 - 2013)

Adviser: Steven Kleinstein

“Computational Methods for Detecting Antigen-Driven Selection in Ig Sequences”


2005

Hugo Lam (2005 - 2010*)

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“Computational Analysis on Genomic Variation (Detecting and Characterizing Structural Variants in the Human Genome”

ThaiBinh Luong (2005 - 2011*)

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“Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval Using Term Identification and Concurrent Image and Text Processing”

Laura Mustavich (2005 - 2010*)

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“Integrating Genomic and Kinetic Data to Elucidate Mechanisms of Alcohol Dependence”

Pavithra Shivakumar (2005 - 2011)

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“Predicting drug response and function using sub-structure analysis”

Chong Shou (2005 - 2011)

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“Computational Analysis on Biological Networks: Measuring Evolutionary Rewiring & Predicting Regulatory Relationship”

Sebastian Szpakowski (2005 - 2010*)

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“Towards Intelligent Integration of Information from High-Throughput Studies of Human Genomes”


2004

David Ballard (2004 - 2009)

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“Integration of Genomic Data to Identify Genes and Pathways Associated with Disease”

Song Huang (2004 - 2010*)

Adviser:

“High-dimensional Gene expression Classification and genome-wide association Studies of Complex Traits”

Kevin Keating (2004 - 2010*)

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“Semi-automated Model Building for RNA Crystallography (A Directed Rotameric Approach to Building the RNA Backbone)”

Jill Rubinstein (2004 - 2010*) [MD-PhD]

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“Translational Epigenetics (Applications of High-Throughput Genomic Technologies for Melanoma Diagnostics and Treatment)”


2003

Valentin Dinu (2003 - 2007)

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“Informatics Approaches to Translational Research (Management and Analysis of Clinical and High Density Genomic Data)”

Tara Gianoulis (2003 - 2009)

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“Mining Biological Complexity (Cross Integration of Large-Scale Metagenomics, Environmental, and Chemical Datasets)”

Sara Nichols (2003 - 2009*)

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“High-throughput Methods in Computer-aided Drug Design Pertaining to Flexibility, Selectivity and Lipophilicity”


2002

Sujun Hua (2002 - 2009)

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“Genomic Studies on Nuclear Receptor-Mediated Transcriptional Networks in Breast Cancer Cells”

Yin Liu (2002 - 2007*)

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“Statistical Modeling of Biological Interactions in Eukaryotes using Genomics and Proteomics Data”

Tom Royce (2002 - 2007*)

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“Tiling Microarray Informatics”

Xiaowei Zhu (2002 - 2008*)

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“Mapping Regulatory Networks Using Genomic and Proteomic Approaches”

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