BMI Students

 

 

Sarah Aerni

Entered PhD program in 2006; BS (UC San Diego)

Research interests: Creating novel tools for use in Biological analysis, as well as modification and refinement of current techniques. I am particularly interested in developing and applying such tools for research in analyzing sequence data for studying gene regulation, population genetics, evolutionary theories and disease such as in cancer, antigen-induced disease, as well as other genetic conditions. (Research Advisor: S. Batzoglou)

Sarim Baig

Entered MS program in 2007; BS (National Univ of Pakistan) Fulbright Scholar

Research interests: TBA

Subarna Biswas, MD

Entered MS program in 2007; BS & MD (Stanford)

Research interests: TBA (Research Advisor: A. Butte)

David Chen

Entered PhD program in 2006; MS (Johns Hopkins); BS (USC)

Research interests: Novel translational approaches for the integration of disparate data sources, namely, the use of data across the transcriptome and clinome to examine human biomarkers. (David's URL)

Research Advisor: A. Butte

Tiffany Chen

Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (Duke University)

Research interests: TBA

Erik Corona

Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (UCSD)

Research interests: TBA

Guy Haskin Fernald

Entered PhD program in 2007; BA (Swarthmore)

Research interests: TBA

Yael Garten

Entered PhD program in 2005; MS (Weizmann Institute of Science); BS (Bar-Ilan University)

Research interests: Key architectural components of the network, analyzing sequence motifs that are significant in dictating transcriptional interactions and transcription factor combinatorics. (Research Advisor: R. Altman)

Genaro Hernandez

Entered PhD program in 2005; BS (San Diego State Univ)

Research interests: Biological sequence analysis and
genomics. (Research Advisor: A. Das)

Maureen Hillenmeyer

Entered PhD program in 2003; BS (Notre Dame)

Research interests: Investigating therapeutic drugs and their effects on functional gene networks. Continuing/future interests include global health (especially malaria/HIV/TB), modeling of molecular systems, and synthetic biology.
(Research Advisor: R. Davis)
 

Runa Islam

Entered PhD program in 2004; BA (Harvard University); MS (Harvard University)

Research interests: I am interested in decision analysis models in health policy and medicine, Markov modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, and infectious disease and developing world health issues. (Research Advisor: M. Brandeau)

Amit Kaushal

Entered PhD program in 2004, MD program in 2005; BS (Stanford); MS (Stanford)

Research interests: Applying machine learning techniques to learn from human proteomics data. (Research Advisor: R. Davis)

Nikesh Kotecha

Entered PhD program in 2003; BS (Boston University)

Research interests: Applying computational and statistical techniques to address biological problems and providing these in a usable way to biologists; integrating heterogenous data (images, text etc.) in ways to better understand complex systems.(Research Advisor: G. Nolan)

Mia Levy, MD

Entered PhD program in 2005; BS (University of Pennsylvania); MD (Rush University)

 
Research interests: Cancer Biomedical Informatics, specifically
applications that support translational research goals through the integration and representation of genomic and clinical data. (Research Advisor: H. Lowe)

Wei-Nchih Lee, MD

Entered PhD program in 2007; BA (Columbia); MD (CUNY Mount Sinai); MPH (Columbia)

Research interests: TBA

Ray Lin

Entered PhD program in 2005; MS (University of Utah); MS/BS (National Taiwan University)

Research interests: Data analysis, data mining, statistical and machine learning methods for predicting clinical outcomes. (Research Advisor: S. Plevritis)

Alex Morgan

Entered PhD program in 2006; MS (Tufts University); BA (Brandeis University)

Research interests: Personalized medicine, molecular pharmacology, natural language processing, applied mathematics, data mining. (Research Advisor: A. Butte)

John Nguyen

Entered MD/PhD program in 1997; BS (UC Davis)

 
Research interests: Developing decisions support and clinical information systems and studying how these might be integrated into the health care delivery process.
(Research Advisor: A. Das)

Sam Pearlman

Entered PhD program in 2005; MS (Stanford University);
BS (M.I.T.)

Research interests: Investigating the evolution of protein phosphorylation, and developing a phosphorylation site prediction algorithm based on rates of amino acid replacement in multiple sequence alignments with other closely related proteins. (Research Advisor: J. Ferrell)

Nadeem Riaz

Entered MS program in 2005; MD program in 2003; BS (Rutgers University)

Research interests: TBA

Jesse Rodriguez

Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (UCSD)

Research interests: TBA

Diane Schroeder

Entered PhD program in 2002; BS (Iowa State Univ.)

Research interests: Working with protein structure/function prediction. (Research Advisor: R. Myers)

Jing Shi

Entered PhD program in 2001; MD (Beijing Medical Univ.)

Research interests: developing tools for gene expression analysis in bacteria; fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle related to the prevention of aging . (Research Advisor: S. Cohen)

Marina Sirota

Entered PhD program in 2006; MS & BS (Stanford)

Research interests: Applications of computer science to molecular biology and genetics. My previous research focused on applying probabilistic methods to comparative genomics and sequence analysis. (Research Advisor: A. Butte)

Lucinda Southworth

Entered PhD program in 2003; BS (University of Pennsylvania), MS (Oxford University);

Research interests: Working on the comparative analysis of expression data in eukaryotic organisms. (Research Advisor: S. Kim)

Kaustubh Supekar

Entered PhD program in 2004; BENG (University of Bombay); MS (University of Missouri)

Research interests: To develop and apply computational knowledge-based methods for multi-modal image analysis and integration (Research Advisor: M. Musen)

Andres Tellez

Entered PhD program in 2002; MS (MIT); BSC (MIT)

Research interests: Macromolecule modeling and Drug Design.
(Research Advisor: K. Kirkegaard)
 

Jessie Tenenbaum

Entered PhD program in 2002; BA (Harvard)

Research interests: 1. Network discovery through integration of proteomic, genomic and gene expression data. 2. Design and development of algorithms for use in functional proteomics, treatment efficacy, and disease outcome prediction. (Research Advisor: P.J. Utz)

Jason Turner-Maier

Entered MS program in 2007; BS (Stanford)

Research interests: TBA

Shirley Wu

Entered PhD program in 2004; BS (Brown)

Research interests: Computational prediction of functional sites in proteins using  sequence and/or structural information, especially with regards to  cell signaling and regulatory networks. Specifically, interested  in phosphorylation and in the difficult problem of predicting  phosphorylation sites. Also interested in biological pathways in  general and in the visualization and manipulation of pathway data in intuitive and effective ways. (Research Advisor: R. Altman)

Guanglei Xiong

Entered PhD program in 2006; MS (Tsinghua University); Beng (Tsinghua University)

Research Interests: Image-based modeling of blood flow and vessel wall dynamics in the human arterial system.(Research Advisor: C. Taylor)

Rong Xu

Entered PhD program in 2004; BS (Beijing University); MSC (Case Western Reserve Univ); MS (Stanford)

Research interests: Natural language processing of clinical trial papers and personalized. (Research Advisor. A. Garber)

Peggy Yao

Entered PhD program in 2005; MS/BS (National University of Singapore)

Research interests: Use computational approach to study protein structure, function, dynamics and molecular interaction. Hope to propel the development of structural biology, systems biology and drug design. (Research Advisor: JC Latombe)

Noah Zimmerman

Entered MS program in 2006; PhD program in 2007; BS (University of Maryland)

Research interests: Applying formal methods of knowledge representation (ontology, description logic, rule-based systems) to model processes in biomedical research. Other interests: Semantic web technologies, visualization and human computer interaction.(Research Advisor: A. Das)

Professional MS (HCP) Students

Rahul Choudhury

 

Ron Gonzalez

 

Kenneth Jung

 

George Lai

 

Christina Lu

Chirag Patel

Ratna Saripalli

 

Randall Walker

 

Alvin Wang