Past Associates
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Elfalem Alemu
Undergraduate Student/Intern
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.
Head of Research Data Strategy at Telethon Kids Institute
Founder - CodersCrowd
Co-Founder and Lead IT - Tunisian American Young Professionals
aradwen [at] gmail.com
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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
University of Maryland
Kunmi Ayanbule
Engineering Manager
Robinhood
Samyadeep Basu, MS, Computer Science
Applied Scientist
Microsoft
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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Saloe Bispo Poubel, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Christine Bogan-Phillips
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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Javiera Caceres
Mara Cai
Joe Carl, Ph.D.
Research Manager, Self-employed
Florin Chelaru
Software Engineer, Google, Inc.
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
Associate Director, Pathology Data Strategy at AstraZeneca
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
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
Emily Aster Jones
Undergraduate Student
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Rebecca Just
Visiting Scientist, Forensic Genetics, FBI Laboratory
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
Nitish Mishra, Ph.D.
Instructor at University of Nebraska Medical Center
Ashwin Moodumane
FSO Technology Advisory Staff at EY, McLean, VA
Evguenia "Eva" Morgun
Post-doctoral Student at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Niranjan Nagarajan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Computational and Mathematical Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore
nagarajann [at] gis.a-star.edu.sg
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Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Visiting
Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Saket Navlakha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
navlakha [at] cs.cmu.edu
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Mathew Oberhardt
Program Director for Research Science at New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Kwame Baabu Okrah
Statistical Scientist at Genentech, Inc.
Nathan Olson, Ph.D.
Research Biologist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
nathanael.olson [at] nist.gov
Seung-Gu Park
Joseph Nathaniel Paulson
Statistical Scientist at Genentech, Inc.
Geo Pertea, M.S.
Bioinformatics Engineer & Senior Software Engineer
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
gpertea [at] jhu.edu
Mihaela Pertea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
mpertea [at] umiacs.umd.edu
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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
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 Researcher at Harvard Medical School
Mike Schatz, Ph.D.
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Johns Hopkins University
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Seth Schobel-McHugh
Assistant Professor at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Wash., D.C.
Jeremy Selengut, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Sarkar-Klein Labs
Mahfuza Sharmin, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Scholar, Stanford University
Steven B. Smith, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist.
Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx), Balt., MD
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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
Data Scientist at Google, Inc.
Dylan Taylor
Graduate Student, now at JHU
Cole Trapnell, Ph.D.
Assistant 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
I/C Head of Mechatronics Dept.
Team Lease Skills University (TLSU)
Praveen Vaddadi
Founder at Thynktank
Justin Wagner
Computer Scientist
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hao Wang
Bioinformatics Scientist at Roche Diagnostics
Joshua Wetzel
PhD Student, 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.
Principal Bioinformatics Scientist
Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc., Balt., MD
Chengxi Ye
Research Intern
Meridian Global Inc., College Park, MD
Kevin Young
Software Developer
Perfect Sense Digital, College Park, MD
Jia Zeng, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Yue "Monica" Zhu
Software Developer at Capital One Bank