BMI Students
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Sarah Aerni
Entered PhD program in 2006; BS (UC San Diego) |
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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 |
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Subarna Biswas, MD
Entered MS program in 2007; BS & MD (Stanford)
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| Research interests: TBA (Research Advisor: A. Butte) |
| David Chen
Entered PhD program in 2006; MS (Johns Hopkins); BS (USC) |
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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
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Tiffany Chen
Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (Duke University) |
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Erik Corona
Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (UCSD) |
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| Yael Garten
Entered PhD program in 2005; MS (Weizmann Institute of Science);
BS (Bar-Ilan University) |
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| 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) |
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Research interests: Biological sequence analysis and
genomics. (Research Advisor: A. Das) |
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Maureen
Hillenmeyer
Entered PhD program in 2003; BS (Notre Dame) |
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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) |
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| Runa
Islam
Entered PhD program in 2004; BA (Harvard University); MS (Harvard
University) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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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) |
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Wei-Nchih Lee, MD
Entered PhD program in 2007; BA (Columbia);
MD (CUNY Mount Sinai); MPH (Columbia) |
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| Ray
Lin
Entered PhD program in 2005; MS (University of
Utah); MS/BS (National Taiwan University) |
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| 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) |
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| Research interests:
Personalized medicine, molecular pharmacology, natural language processing,
applied mathematics, data mining. (Research Advisor: A. Butte) |
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| John
Nguyen
Entered MD/PhD program in 1997; BS (UC Davis) |
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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.) |
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| 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)
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| Research interests: TBA |
Jesse Rodriguez
Entered PhD program in 2007; BS (UCSD) |
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| Diane
Schroeder
Entered PhD program in 2002; BS (Iowa State Univ.) |
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| Research interests: Working with protein structure/function
prediction. (Research Advisor: R. Myers) |
| Jing
Shi
Entered PhD program in 2001; MD (Beijing Medical Univ.) |
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| Research interests:
developing tools for gene expression analysis in bacteria; fitness, nutrition,
and lifestyle related to the prevention of aging
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Marina Sirota
Entered PhD program in 2006; MS & BS (Stanford) |
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| 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); |
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| 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) |
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| Research interests:
To develop and apply computational knowledge-based methods for multi-modal image
analysis and integration
(Research Advisor: M. Musen)
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| Andres
Tellez
Entered PhD program in 2002; MS (MIT); BSC (MIT) |
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Research interests: Macromolecule modeling
and Drug Design.
(Research Advisor: K. Kirkegaard) |
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| Jessie
Tenenbaum
Entered PhD program in 2002; BA (Harvard)
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| 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) |
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| Research interests: TBA |
| Shirley
Wu
Entered PhD program in 2004; BS (Brown) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Research interests:
Natural language processing of clinical trial papers and personalized.
(Research Advisor. A. Garber)
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| Peggy
Yao
Entered PhD program in 2005; MS/BS (National University of Singapore) |
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| 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) |
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| 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
Chirag
Patel |
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Alvin
Wang |
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