Biomedical Informatics Program Students
Laura Bravo Sanchez
Research Interests: Developing and deploying Artificial Intelligence methods to improve clinical decision making, diagnosis and treatment.
Bryan Bunning
Research Interests: Clinical trial design, conduct, and data integration from unique sources
Ben Ehlert
Research Interest: Clinically-viable machine learning to optimize care of chronic diseases.
Oana Enache
Research Interest: Developing statistical methods for observational health data
Ashley Lewis
Gowri Nayar
Research Interests: Designing computational tools and prediction algorithms to understand protein interactions and accelerate drug development.
Maggie Wang
Research Interests: Developing robust and interpretable machine learning models to meaningfully guide clinical care.
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: Statistical and community-based methods for identification of (un)fair algorithmic allocation of health care resources to historically oppressed groups
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
Ben Marafino
Research Interests: Causal inference, prediction, design and analysis of experiments and observational studies
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
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
Mike Freedman
Research Interests: "I’m a pediatrician in critical care training with a background in bioengineering, pharma R&D, decision science, epidemiology, consulting, and startups. I’m interested in applying computational modeling techniques toward the prediction and prevention of critical illness in children, both inside and outside the PICU."
David Kuo
Research Interests: Computational methods for guiding patient treatment and building robust trustworthy machine learning systems for real-world clinical practice.
Matt Schwede
Research Interests: Integrating both genomic and phenotypic data, including data from the electronic health record, and applying machine learning and other computational techniques to model pathogenesis, treatment response, and survival in hematologic malignancies
Ben Viggiano
Research Interests: Machine learning/ computer vision techniques in medical imaging, integrating approaches for multimodal medical record data, bias analysis, and natural language processing for electronic medical health records
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.
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
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.
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
Raymond Yin
Research Interests: Hematology/Oncology Diagnostic Tools, Translational Bioinformatics, Personalized Medicine, Drug Repurposing, Disease Burden Quantification, Treatment Optimization
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
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
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
Sherwin Xia
Research Interests: Digital healthcare/therapeutics, artificial intelligence, data science, personalized medicine, consumer sequencing and virtual reality
Charles Chen
Research Interests: Mining electronic health records using machine learning and natural language processing. Developing artificial intelligence systems for information extraction and decision support.
Hannah Grossman
Research Interests: Using machine learning for a range of biomedical applications, most notably cancer diagnosis and treatment. "I hope to utilize my education in molecular environmental biology and computer science and background as a software engineer to discover solutions to diseases that plague so many of us."
Gary Tseng
Research Interests: Applied machine learning in healthcare, statistical methods, and digital health applications.
Gary Burnett
Research Interests: Machine learning, GPU Computing, Neuroscience, Deep Brain Stimulation, Neural Encoding/Decoding
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