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Biomedical Informatics Program Students

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PhD & MS
 
           
 
           

Class of 2012/13
1st year

Emily Doughty
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research interests: Personalized medicine, particularly in pharmacogenomics; natural language processing; semantic web technology
Undergraduate institution: University of Maryland Baltimore County
Rachel Goldfeder
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research interests: Genomics and Personalized Genomes
Undergraduate affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis (Biomedical Engineering)

Alicia Martin
Entered MS program Fall 2012
Research interests: The impact of genetic and expression variation on phenotypic variation in diverse human populations.
Undergraduate affiliation: Bioengineering at the University of Washington.
Graduate affiliation: PhD program, Genetics at Stanford

Collin Melton, PhD.
Entered MS program Summer 2012
Research interests: Applying computational techniques to investigate interesting biological phenomenon related to human health.
Undergraduate affiliation: BS in Chemical Engineering, Stanford
Graduate affiliation: PhD in Biomedical Sciences, UC San Francisco.

David Moskowitz
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research Interests: Next-generation sequencing, functional domain prediction, systems biology, cancer genomics
Undergraduate affiliation: Brown University

Erika Strandberg
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research interests: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Clinical Informatics
Undergraduate affiliation: Harvey Mudd College (BS) - Mathematical Biology
Graduate affiliation: University of California, San Diego (MS) - Statistics

Emily Tsang
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research interests: proteomics, developmental biology, cellular networks, machine learning.
Undergraduate affiliation: McGill University

Wei Wang, MBBS and PhD
Entered MS program Fall 2012
Research interests: next generation sequencing, functional genomics
Undergraduate affiliation: Beijing Medical University (Bachelor of Medicine)
Graduate affiliation: University of Southern California (PhD)

Kun-Hsing Yu, MD
Entered PhD program Fall 2012
Research interests: Biomarker discovery, decision support, machine learning, molecular modeling, natural language processing, and translational bioinformatics.
Undergraduate affiliation: MD, National Taiwan University

Xueheng Zhao
Entered HCP masters program Fall 2010; Entered MS program Fall 2012
Research interest: Discovery of motif from human MHC class I binding peptides with improved computational approach

Class of 2011/12
2nd year

Tomer Altman
Entered HCP masters program 2009;
Entered PhD program: Winter 2012
Research interests: Computational biology, bioinformatics, knowledge representation, flux-balance analysis, metabolomics, machine learning, healthcare informatics.
Undergraduate affiliation: UC Berkeley - Bioengineering

Hua Fan-Minogue, MD, PhD
Entered MS program: Summer 2011
Research interests:Mining Cancer Genomics Data for Identification of Cancer Stem Cell Biomarkers
Past affiliation: Cell biology, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham;
Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Imaging Program, Stanford University

Mike Januszyk, MD
Entered MS program: Summer 2011
Research interest: Transcriptional analysis of stem cell populations for regenerative medicine applications.
Past affiliation: University of Chicago, MD
Advisor: Nigam Shah

Jonathan Mortensen
Entered PhD program: 2011
Research interest: Leveraging ontologies and other sources of biomedical knowledge to assist in solving clinical problems
Undergraduate affiliation: Case Western Reserve (BE)
Advisor: Mark Musen
Diego Munoz
Entered PhD program: 2011
Research interest: Development of stochastic simulation models of the natural history of cancer that use clinical data to estimate and predict cancer progression, as well as the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatment and screening technologies. 
Undergraduate affiliation: MS (Stanford)
Advisor: Sylvia Plevritis
Katie Planey
Entered PhD program: 2011
Research interest: Integrative breast cancer diagnostic models that combine disparate data sets such as gene microarrays, tissue samples and medical images to optimize treatment plans for patients. (Long term: mixing my MBA and PhD in entrepreneurship.)
Affiliation: MBA (Stanford)

Rebecca Sawyer
Entered PhD program: 2011
Research interest: Medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis
Undergraduate Affiliation: UNC Charlotte - Electrical Engineering Graduate.
Affiliaton: Stanford - MSEE
Advisor: Daniel Rubin
Vanessa Sochat
Entered PhD program: Summer 2011
Research Interest: Application of computational methods to multimodal neuroimaging data to better understand, quantify, and visualize the human brain.  
Linda Szabo
Entered PhD program: Fall 2011
Research Interest: Developing new methods for the identification of cancer driver genes which will facilitate improved patient treatment and survival
Shanshan Tuo, PhD
Entering MS program: Winter 2012
Research interest: General interest in genetics and genomics.
Luke Yancy, Jr.
Entered PhD program: Fall 2011
Research interest: Functional genomics and the study of diseases adversely affecting minority populations

 

Class of 2010/11
3rd year

Francisco Gimenez
Entered PhD program: Fall 2010
Research Interest: Medical image analysis with a focus on improving radiological reporting.
Undergraduate affiliation: UC Berkeley
Advisor: Daniel Rubin

Sara Hillenmeyer
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interest: Systems Pharmacology & Pharmacogenomics
Undergraduate affiliation: Brown University
Advisor: Russ Altman

Haruka Itakura, MD
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interest: My primary research interest revolves around developing models for prediction as it relates to diagnosis, treatment response, monitoring, and survival in oncologic and cardiovascular diseases.

Ken Jung
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interests: Structured probabilistic models such as Bayes Nets.  
Undergraduate affiliation: MS (Stanford)
Advisor:

Yi Liu
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interest: Medical Record Mining
Undergraduate affiliation: University of Waterloo
Advisor: Nigam Shah

Brian Maples
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interest: Statistical Genetics
Advisor: Carlos Bustamante

Bethany Percha
Entered PhD program: 2010
Research interest: Biomedical natural language processing and text mining.
Advisor: Russ Altman

David Poznik
Entered PhD program: September 2010
Research Interest: Human population genetics and computational genomics
Undergraduate affiliation: Sc.B. Biophysics, Brown University
Advisor: Carlos Bustamante

4th year


Andy Beck, MD
Entered PhD program: 2009
MS (Stanford)
Research interest: Translational bioinformatics
Advisor: Daphne Koller

 

Konrad Karczewski
Entered PhD program: 2009
Research interest: Regulatory Variation, Personal Genomes
Undergraduate affiliation: Princeton University
Advisor: Michael Snyder, co-advised by Russ Altman

Tiffany Ting Liu
Entered PhD program: 2009
Research interest: integrated data analysis for clinical disease applications
Undergraduate affiliation: University of Waterloo, Canada
Advisors: Daniel Rubin & David Paik

Pablo Sanchez Cordero
Entered PhD program: 2009
Research interest: Studying combining biology and computers.
Advisor: Rhiju Das

5th year & above

Rob Bruggner
Entered PhD program: 2008
Research and Interests:  Flow Cytometry Informatics, Automated Cell Population Discovery, Semantic Web Technologies, Machine Learning
Undergraduate / Masters affiliation: University of Notre Dame
Advisor: Garry Nolan

Guy Haskin Fernald
Entered PhD program: 2007
BA (Swarthmore)
Research interests: Integrated systems pharmacology for the prediction of pharmacological phenotypes, pharmacogenes, and drug repositioning. Advisor: Russ Altman

Jesse Rodriguez
Entered PhD program: 2007
MS (Stanford)
Research interest: Next generation genomics.
Undergraduate affiliation: UCSD
Advisor: Serafim Batzoglou

Coterms

Johnathan Rothfels (LOA)
Entered Coterminal masters program: Winter 2010
Sarah Xing
Entered coterminal masters program: 2011

HCP

Anthony Chang
Entered HCP masters program: Fall 2011
Marisa Torres
Entered HCP masters program: Winter 2011 Research interest: biodefense, pathogen detection and forensics, virulence, antibiotic resistance BA (UC Berkeley)
Current: Pathogen Bio-informatics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

MSTP

Amit Kaushal
Entered PhD program: 2004
MD program: 2005
Research interests: Applying machine learning techniques to learn from human proteomics data.
Undergraduate affiliation: BS (Stanford); MS (Stanford)
Research Advisor: R. Davis

 

 

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