Past Associates

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Elfalem Alemu
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead at DealerOn

Jonathan Allen, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
allen99 [at] llnl.gov

Fatemeh Almodaresi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Radhouane Aniba, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and CTO RAN BioLinks
aradwen [at] gmail.com

Sam Angiuoli, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc.
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Irina Astrovskaya, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Engineer
Simons Foundation, NYC

Rama Atitkar
Ph.D. Candidate, Emerging Infectious Diseases Program
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Kunmi Ayanbule
Engineering Manager
Robinhood

Adam Bazinet, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Principal Investigator, National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Battelle National Biodefense Institute
adam.lee.bazinet [at] gmail.com
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Leann Biancani, MS
PhD Student at University of Rhode Island

Saloe Bispo Poubel, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Domenick Braccia, Ph.D.
NGS Data

Joshua Bradley
Data Scientist
U.S. Department of Defense

Arthur Brady, Ph.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences
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Norma Brinkley

Brian Brubach, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Wellesly College
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Mara Cai

Joe Carl, Ph.D.
Research Manager, Self-employed

Florin Chelaru
Software Engineer, Google, Inc.

Seth Commichaux, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics research scientist, FDA

Andrew Consroe
Systems Integrations Specialist, Self-employed

Jay Corckran
Graduate Student, Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

Hector Corrada Bravo, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Genentech

Denise Cross

Zhe Cui, Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Software Engineer
Google

Arthur Delcher, Ph.D.
Retired Adjunct Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
adelcher [at] jhmi edu

Laura Dillon, Ph.D.
Head of Translational Biomarkers at Parthenon Therapeutics

Wikum Dasaratha Dinalankara
Postdoctoral Researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine

Faezeh Dorri

Geet Duggal
Director of Engineering at DNAnexus
geetduggal [at] gmail.com

Cecilia Fernandes Dupecher
Health Science Program Manager at Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), US Army

Nathan Edwards, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University
nje5 [at] georgetown.edu
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Victoria Paz Cepeda Espinoza, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University

Benjamin Ferraro

Darya Filippova
Engineer, Scientist at BetterOmics
dasha.filippova [at] gmail.com
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Liliana Florea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
florea [at] jhu.edu
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Jan Fowler

Nicholas Franzese
Northwestern University, Ph.D. Candidate

Mohammadreza Ghodsi, Ph.D.
Research Scientist at Google, Inc.

Milad Gholami
Software Engineer at Google, Inc.

Jay Ghurye, Ph.D.
Software Engineer at Verily Life Sciences
ghuryejay [at] gmail.com

Jonathan Gluck
Software Engineer at Apple

Jessica A. Goodheart, Ph.D.
Scripps Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, San Diego

Brian Gottfried
Software Engineer at Philips
bgottfried [at] som.umaryland.edu

Mohamed K. Gunady, Ph.D.
Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist at Lab of Integrative Multiomics
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Sridhar Hannenhalli, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Cancer Data Science Laboratory
National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research
sridhar.hannenhalli [at] nih.gov

Shaheer Hasan
Medical Student at EVMS

Leandro Hermida
Bioinformatics Scientist and Computational Biologist

Christopher Michael Hill
Software Engineer at Google, Inc.

Joyce Hsiao
Senior Statistician, Platform Research at Moderna

Elizabeth Humphries, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs

Heba Ibrahim
Assistant Professor at National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology

Kiran Javkar, Ph.D.

Emily Aster Jones
Undergraduate Student
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Rebecca Just, Ph.D.
Associate Principal Investigator, Genomics at National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)

Jayaram Kancherla
Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Genentech

David Kelley, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist at CalicoLabs
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Zia Khan, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist at Genetech, Inc.

Daehwan Kim, Ph.D.
Michael L. Rosenberg Assistant Professor CPRIT Scholar
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Carl Kingsford, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
carlk [at] cs.cmu.edu
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Michael Kleyman

Daniel Manuka Konecki
Graduate Student, Lichtarge Lab

Sergey Koren, Ph.D.
Scientist, Bioinformatics
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Battelle National Biodefense Institute
sergek [at] umd.edu
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Sean Kross
Post-doctoral Student
University of California, San Diego

Ben Langmead, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Johns Hopkins University
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Grecia Lapizco-Encinas, Ph.D.
Senior Data Scientist
Big Data & Analytics Center of Excellence at Bechtel Corporation, Reston, VA
Email: glapizco [at] cs.umd.edu

Joo Sang Lee, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Visiting
Center for Cancer Research, NCI

Woei-jyh (Adam) Lee, Ph.D.
Tyser Teaching Fellow of Information Systems, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
adamlee [at] rhsmith.umd.edu
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Max Leiserson, Ph.D.
Mosaic Building Group, Inc., Partner, Engineering
max [at] mosaic.us
Mosaic

Yuan Li

Xue Li
Software Engineer at Facebook

Henry Lin, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Core Data Science at Facebook
henrylin [at] gmail.com
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Bo Liu, Ph.D.
(Hiring) Engineer Manager
SQUARE, Inc., San Francisco, CA
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Sanna Madan
Post-doctoral Fellow, CRTA
Center for Cancer Research, NCI

Tanja Magoc, Ph.D.
Data Management Analyst III, Software Engineer
University of Florida

Justin Malin, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, NIH

Lee Mendelowitz
Analyst, Baseball Research & Development at the Washington Nationals

Jacquelyn S. Michaelis, Ph.D.
Scientific Reviewer, FDA

Nitish Mishra, Ph.D.
Instructor at University of Nebraska Medical Center

Ashwin Moodumane
FSO Technology Senior Consultant at EY, McLean, VA

Evguenia "Eva" Morgun
Post-doctoral Student at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Niranjan Nagarajan, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Group Leader
Genome Institute of Singapore
nagarajann [at] gis.a-star.edu.sg
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Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Saket Navlakha, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
navlakha [at] cshl.edu
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Mathew Oberhardt
Lead Data Scientist for Healthcare at Qualtrics

Kwame Baabu Okrah
Staff Data Scientist (Associate Director)
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Nathan Olson, Ph.D.
Research Biologist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
nathanael.olson [at] nist.gov

Seung-Gu Park

Joseph N. Paulson
Director of Data Sciences at N-Power Medicine, Inc.

Geo Pertea, M.S.
Data/Software Engineer at
Lieber Institute for Brain Development
geo.pertea [at] gmail.com

Mihaela Pertea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
elapertea [at] gmail.com
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Adam Phillippy, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
adam.phillippy [at] nih.gov
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Daniela Puiu, M.S.
Bioinformatics Engineer & Senior Software Engineer
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
dpuiu [at] jhu.edu

Welles Robinson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Surgery Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Cancer Data Science Laboratory
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
eytan.ruppin [at] nih.gov
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Avinash Sahu, Ph.D.

Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D.
Horvitz Professor of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
salzberg [at] jhu.edu
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Shrutii Sarda, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist
CooperGenomics

Hirak Sarkar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Candidate, Harvard Medical School
Computational Biology Researcher

Michael Schatz, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Johns Hopkins University
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Seth Schobel-McHugh, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i) at The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Jeremy Selengut, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Sarkar-Klein Labs

Mahfuza Sharmin, Ph.D.
Data Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Steven B. Smith, Ph.D.
Computational Biology Lead
Output Biosciences, New York, NY
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Dan Sommer, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Engineer and Senior Software Engineer
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center

Chih-Yuan Su
Clinical Programmer
Syneos Health

Leonid Sukharnikov, Ph.D.
Chief Technical Officer at Innovizo, Arlington, VA

Hisham Nur Talukder
Director - Data Science at BlackRock

Dylan Taylor
Ph.D. Candidate at JHU

Cole Trapnell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Washington, Dept. of Genome Sciences
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Todd Treangen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Rice University
treangen [at] rice.edu
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Dishank Upadhyay
Senior Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies

Praveen Vaddadi
Co-founder & CTO at Notaceon Inc.

Justin Wagner
Computer Scientist
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Hao Wang
Bioinformatics Scientist at Guardant Health

Joshua Wetzel, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

James Robert White, Ph.D.
Founder of Resphera Biosciences
Independent Research Specialist, Balt., MD
james.dna.white[at]gmail.com
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Derrick Wood, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics and Data Science Lead
Output Sciences

Chengxi Ye
Senior Software Engineer
Google Research

Kevin Young
Lead Engineeer
Booz Allen Hamilton

Mohsen Zakeri, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of CS

Jia Zeng, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Associate

Yue "Monica" Zhu
Senior Software Engineeer at Microsoft