Biomedical Informatics Program Students
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
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
Craig Smail
Research interests: Transcriptomics, statistical genetics
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
Darvin Yi
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Image Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Medical Imaging
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
Lichy Han
Research Interests: Systems pharmacology, network analysis, personalized disease and drug prediction
Albee Ling
Research Interests: Causal inference, missing data, observational studies, and studies involving electronic health records
Jessica Torres (Soto)
Research Interests: Machine Learning, AI, and Cardiology
Daniel Kim
Research Interests: Machine learning for genomics, epigenetics, gene regulation
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
Vikram Jindal
Research Interests: Digital healthcare/therapeutics, Precision medicine, diagnostic tools development
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
Sophia Wang
Research Interests: Machine learning and natural language processing in electronic health records to improve ophthalmology care
Michael Chavez
Research Interests: Building CRISPR tools and bioinformatic pipelines for engineered cell therapies
Julien Hedou
Research Interests: Computational solutions including machine learning and deep learning for omics data
Mars Huang
Research Interests: Applying deep learning on genomic or proteomic data to contribute to precision medicine development and drug discovery
Sehj Kashyap
Research Interests: Data mining for patient-centered outcomes and identifying people at-risk for non-adherence and drop-off
Amir Kiani
Research Interests: Personalized medicine, machine learning, natural language processing, cancer genomics
Karen Ouyang
Research Interests: Develop informatics tools and approaches to interpret genomics information and understand their relationship with clinical and molecular phenotypes.
Ashton Teng
Research Interests: Discovering the comorbidities of depression with longitudinal prescriptions data
Elizabeth Tran
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
Areli Valencia
Research Interests: Applying machine learning techniques to evaluate prevention and public health interventions
Eric Wei
Research Interests: High throughput sequencing for personal omics profiling
Juan Manuel Zambrano Chavez
Research Interests: Enhance clinical practice by developing decision aiding tools using statistics and artificial intelligence
Gustavo Chavez
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
Alea Delmastro
Research Interests: Infectious disease, immunology, digital image processing, machine learning and applied statistical methods
Jamie MacFarlane
Research Interests: Automated diagnostics, deep learning, computer vision, personalized precision medicine, and neuroscience
Emanuel Pinilla
Research Interests: Machine Learning, NLP, clinical data mining, Computer Vision, computational molecular biology, and AI-based medical diagnostics
Marilu Bravo
Research Interests: Clinical data mining, data warehouses, and pharmacogenomics
Tynan Challenor
Research Interests: Applying machine learning to assess how factors like climate change and the political landscape impact community health; how certain communities may be disproportionately susceptible to poor health outcomes.
Luisa Galhardo
Research Interests: Informatics in healthcare, computational biology, socially conscious informatics, natural language processing
Ying-hun Kim
Research Interests: Genomics, Translational Bioinformatics, and Clinical Informatics
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
Effie Nehoran
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, and AI-based medical diagnostics
Nicolai Ostberg
Research Interests: Computer vision, computational molecular biology, systems biology and translational bioinformatics
Christina Savvides
Research Interests: Immunology, structural biology, machine learning and applied statistical methods
Jan Sokol
Research Interests: Immunology, stem-cell biology, understanding cutaneous scarring
Sherwin Xia
Research Interests: Digital healthcare/therapeutics, artificial intelligence, data science, personalized medicine, consumer sequencing and virtual reality
Blanca Villanueva
Research Interests: Machine learning fairness, privacy, and security
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
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
Anna Brezhneva
Research Interests: Application and development of novel algorithms and technologies for diagnosis and treatment of disease
Emily Dong
Research Interests: Developing predictive models and informatics tools for improving recombinant therapeutic protein production and enabling smarter process development in the biopharmaceutical industry.
Nicholas Phillips
Research Interests: Applying machine learning to improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy
Kostya Sebov
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
Daniel Wong
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
Masaki Yamada
Research Interests: Cell Culture Process Development, Biochemical Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Genomics, Proteomics, Clinical Data Science, and Personalized Health Care
Alex Ruch
Research Interests: Applying deep learning techniques to medical practice and workflow
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
Tiffany Wang
Research Interests: Developing emerging infections disease diagnostic content