Biomedical Informatics Program Students
Josiah Aklilu
Research Interests: Applying machine learning in medical imaging and studying the underlying causes for neurological disorders, and developing methods for drug discovery and efficacy.
Kristy Carpenter
Research Interests: Developing and applying computational tools for drug discovery and acceleration of drug development pipeline
Samson Mataraso
Research Interest: Using and developing machine learning techniques to derive insights from electronic medical record data
Eric Sun
Research Interests: Developing and applying statistical and machine learning methods to understand the biology of aging and age-related disease.
Min Woo Sun
Research Interest: Developing statistical methods and integrating multimodal data to elucidate the molecular underpinnings of complex diseases.
Kevin Wu
Research Interests: Clinically-viable machine learning, computer vision for medical imaging, and neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence
Christine Yeh
Research Interest: Computational systems biology for translational medicine
Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves
Research Interests: Enhance clinical practice by developing decision aiding tools using statistics and artificial intelligence
Matthew Aguirre
Research Interest: Developing methods in statistical genetics to better understand, identify, and treat human disease.
Erin Craig
Research Interests: Develop tools to support clinical decision making, to improve relationships between patients and clinicians, and to ease hospital processes and workflows.
Daisy Ding
Research Interests: Develop statistical and machine learning models for clinical decision-making
Checo Gonzales
Research Interests: Segmentation and classification of intracranial tumors, modeling latent biochemistry of disease, using high variance in treatment practices to develop improve guidelines
Mars Huang
Research Interests: Applying deep learning on genomic or proteomic data to contribute to precision medicine development and drug discovery
Yusuf Roohani
Research Interest: Machine learning applied to drug discovery and systems biology. Multi-modal data integration especially dealing with high throughput screening and imaging.
Rosie Sowers
Research Interests: Genomics, computational immunology, machine learning, translational bioinformatics
Conor Corbin
Research Interests: Applying machine learning and AI techniques to optimize medical workflows
Alex Derry
Research Interests: Using statistical or machine-learning methods to improve personalized/precision medicine
Tiffany Eulalio
Research Interests: Apply machine learning and parallel programming techniques to genetic data to study cancer and aging
Scott Fleming
Research Interests: Developing algorithms to optimize behavioral interventions in mobile health applications
Gautam Machiraju
Research Interests: Developing mathematical models and multi-omic learning methods for applications in systems biomedicine
Minh Nguyen
Research Interests: Applying machine learning to electronic health records and clinical practice
Rachael "Rocky" Aikens
Research Interests: Statistical methods for causal inference from observational medical data
Elizabeth Chin
Research Interests: High-dimensional longitudinal and time-series datasets; machine learning, applied topology, and statistical methods; human health and health policy
Margaret Guo
Research Interests: Applying network analysis and machine learning techniques to elucidate disease mechanisms and to predict effective pharmacologic interventions
Ben Huynh
Research interests: Machine learning for public health
Larry Kalesinskas
Research Interests: Cluster Analysis of Single-Cell Epigenetic Data
Dan Sosa
Research Interests: Generating drug-repurposing hypotheses through edge-prediction in literature-derived heterogeneous networks
Kevin Thomas
Research Interests: Applying machine learning techniques to human motion data
Guhan Venkataraman
Research Interests: Genetics of complex disease
Margaret Antonio
Research Interests: Multi-omic data integration, data visualization, and functional genomics
Nicole Ferraro
Research Interests: Functional genomics, rare disease diagnosis, genetics in society
Adam Lavertu
Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning and statistical methods, pharmacovigilance, social media based public health surveillance
Ben Marafino
Research Interests: Causal inference, prediction, design and analysis of experiments and observational studies
Greg McInnes
Research Interests: Genomics, personalized medicine, machine learning
Kelley Paskov
Research Interests: Assembling and analyzing genomics and metagenomics data, electronic medical record mining, and physiological signal processing among others
Stephen Pfohl
Research Interests - Machine learning for clinical decision support, electronic health records, deep learning, fairness, generative models, causal inference
Yosuke Tanigawa
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Genomics, Systems Biology, and Automation of Science
Hunter Boyce
Research Interests: Utilizing machine learning and data visualization to build multi-omic data integration platforms for the improvement of personalized medicine
Mike Gloudemans
Research Interests: Machine learning and statistical methods, functional genomics, polygenic disease, systems biology
Anna Shcherbina
Research Interests: Algorithm development for big data analysis, novel methods for data integration from multiple omics fields, personalized medicine
Alice Yu
Research Interests: Systems Biology, Cancer Biology, Machine Learning, and Networks
Yuhao Zhang
Research Interests: Machine learning, natural language processing
Emily Flynn
Research Interests: Examining sex- and hormone-related variability in gene expression data
Jessica Torres (Soto)
Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI, and Cardiology
Daniel Kim
Research Interests: Machine learning for genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation
Katelyn Bechler
Research Interests: Machine learning to optimize therapeutics in patient treatment, modeling for adverse event outcomes, and identifying methods to encourage diversity in clinical trials and precision medicine.
Jeff Choi
Research Interests: Computer vision application to identify and prognosticate traumatic injuries on CT, electronic health record natural language processing, and developing practical risk-stratification tools for bedside use,
Vivian Ho
Research Interests: Applying machine learning techniques to vascular diagnostic imaging, surgical decisionmaking, and surgical outcomes.
Yousuf Khan
Research Interests: Studying the interactions of different macromolecules at a single molecule level, and specifically the AAA+ superfamily of proteins to understand how forces and can be transmitted between macromolecules to produce dynamic motion.
Asha Mehta
Research Interest: Computational methods to integrate genomic, clinical, and imaging data for personalized care.
Vivian Zhu
Research Interests: Machine learning and statistical methods, neuroscience, and mathematical modeling.
Sheun Aluko
Research Interests: Clinical Informatics, health information exchange, clinical decision support, machine learning applied to clinical data mining and clinical image classification, and health IT security
Yoonchung Chey
Research Interests: AI platform for drug discovery, multimodal approach for neuroscience applications
Filip Grantcharov
Research Interests: Identifying, enhancing, and combining various clinical data streams for which to apply machine learning algorithms to improve clinical efficiency and patient safety.
Chia Jui Hung
Research Interests: Developing algorithms for wearables; mining and applying machine learning methods to omics data.
Derek Jow
Research Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, and clinical data mining
Yiheng Li
Research Interests: Applying statistical and machine learning methods on omics data to optimizing medical treatment for human disease
Dylan Peterson
Research interests: Integrating data from multiomic, EHR, and real-world data sources with machine learning for clinical research and to enhance clinical workflow and decision making.
Sophia Wang
Research Interests: Machine learning and natural language processing in electronic health records to improve ophthalmology care
Areli Valencia
Research Interests: Applying machine learning techniques to evaluate prevention and public health interventions
Gustavo Chavez
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
Jenia Borisenko
Research interests: computational genomics, oncogenetics, translational bioinformatics, intelligent diagnostic software, precision medicine.
Ryan Crowley
Research Interests: ML diagnostic and prognostic tests, especially assessing biases that are present within ML diagnostic and prognostic tests and working to improve the performance of these models for underserved populations; also using ML techniques for a variety of applications within precision medicine.
Alea Delmastro
Research Interests: Infectious disease, immunology, digital image processing, machine learning and applied statistical methods
Sandra Kong
Research interests: public health informatics, computational genomics, personalized precision medicine, immunology, computational simulations
Jiwoo Lee
Research Interests: Computational genomics, electronic health record mining, genetics of complex disease, data science, applied statistical methods
Ju Yeon (Jules) Lee
Research Interests: Clinical informatics, computational genomics, computational epidemiology, public health informatics, social medicine, and queer health.
Fan Liu
Research interests: applied statistical methods, machine learning, infectious diseases/immunology
Jamie MacFarlane
Research Interests: Automated diagnostics, deep learning, computer vision, personalized precision medicine, and neuroscience
Erika Malaspina
Research interests: Computational genomics, translational bioinformatics, precision medicine, and data science
Keaton Ollech
Research interests: Precision medicine, clinical informatics, radiology, neuroscience, oncology, and translational bioinformatics
Nikki Parker Taylor
Research interests: Clinical informatics, machine learning, neuroscience, women’s health
Keanu Spies
Research interests: Personalized Precision Medicine, AI-Driven Drug Discovery, AI-Driven Diagnostics, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Genomics
Kailey Totherow
Research Interests: translational bioinformatics, clinical informatics, public health informatics, and cardiology
Victoria Valverde Rambaud
Research interests: AI-based diagnostics, AI-based drug discovery, personalized medicine, machine learning, neuroscience
Marilu Bravo
Research Interests: Clinical data mining, data warehouses, and pharmacogenomics
Michelle Li
Research Interests: Precision medicine, diagnostic tools development, and drug repurposing
Wendy Liu
Research Interests: Computational genomics, cancer and anti-aging therapeutics, precision medicine, and public health in underserved areas
Christina Savvides
Research Interests: Immunology, structural biology, machine learning and applied statistical methods
Sherwin Xia
Research Interests: Digital healthcare/therapeutics, artificial intelligence, data science, personalized medicine, consumer sequencing and virtual reality
Gary Burnett
Research Interests: Machine learning, GPU Computing, Neuroscience, Deep Brain Stimulation, Neural Encoding/Decoding
Jacob Edelson
Research Interests: Developing and implementing novel statistical methods and models using -omics data to further the understanding of complex diseases and genetic disorders as well as improve clinical outcomes
Sebastian Kronmueller
Research Interests: Applications of bioinformatics for diagnostics and therapeutics research and development, proteomics, genomics, computational biology
Chenyu Li
Research interests: Developing novel methods and informatics tools for genome and transcriptome analysis to improve diagnostics and treatment of diseases
Mahdi Moqri
Research Interests: Deep Learning and Single Cell Omics
Abby Pandya
Research Interests: Developing quantification and AI methods to translate data to meaning to construct and implement proactive, continuous, and preventative health outcomes
Josh Price
Research Interests: Modeling genetic and epigenetic regulatory networks, molecular dynamics, gene therapies
Hsu-Hang (Eric) Yeh
Research interests: develop models for clinical decision support, utilize machine learning to facilitate clinical research
Carlos Jose Suarez
Research Interests: Cancer evolution; interpretation of whole genome/whole exome sequencing findings; development of informatics tools to track and analyize the causes and consequences of genetic test mis-orders