Students

This page lists students with whom I work currently or with whom I have worked formerly. I have listed each student only once; in those cases where I have worked with a student in multiple capacities, only the most recent is listed.

Current Students

Doctoral

Supervising

• Nhat Duong (CBB)
• Trung Tran (CS)

Committees

• Leo Biral (CBB, Sandeep Dave)
• Jack Goffinet (CS, David Carlson)
• Kuei-Yueh Ko (CBB, Tim Reddy)
• Mikie Phan (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Daniel Ibrahim)
• Kyle Pinheiro (CS, Raluca Gordân)
• Mario Rubio (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Andreas Mayer)
• Andrew Soborowski (CBB, Amy Schmid)
• Sarah van Dierdonck (CBB, Phil Benfey)
• Changxin Wan (CBB, Jason Ji)
• Hana Wasserman (CBB, Raluca Gordân)
• Pascal Wetzel (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Uwe Ohler)

Former Students

Postdoctoral

Supervising

• Dr. Yulong Li (CS)
  [joined GeneCast Biotechnology in China]
• Dr. Fantine Mordelet (CS)
  [started a postdoc with Barbara Engelhardt at Duke; later joined Showtime Analytics in Ireland]
• Dr. Victoria Anne Smith (Neurobiology), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis
  [joined the faculty at University of St. Andrews, Scotland]

Doctoral

Supervising

• Jason Belsky (CBB), co-supervised with Dave MacAlpine
  [joined BASF Plant Science; later joined OmicSoft, a QIAGEN company]
• Allister Bernard (CS)
  [joined AlphaSimplex Group]
• Raluca Gordân (CS)
  [started a postdoc with Martha Bulyk at Harvard Medical School/MIT;
  later joined the faculty at Duke; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow]
• Xin Guo (CS)
  [joined Gilead Sciences; later founded Apostle, a biotech startup]
• Yezhou Huang (CS)
  [joined Facebook/Meta]
• Balaji Krishnapuram (ECE), co-supervised with Larry Carin
  [joined Siemens Medical Solutions; winner of 2019 ACM SIGKDD Service Award]
• Philippe Lüdi (CBB), co-supervised with Fred Dietrich and Randy Jirtle
  [joined AlphaSimplex Group]
• Kaixuan (Kevin) Luo (CBB)
  [started a postdoc with Matthew Stephens at Chicago]
• Michael Mayhew (CBB)
  [joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab; later joined Inflammatix]
• Sneha Mitra (CS)
  [started a postdoc with Christina Leslie at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center]
• Kevin Moyung (CBB), co-supervised with Dave MacAlpine
  [joined Tavros Therapeutics]
• Leelavati Narlikar (CS)
  [started a postdoc with Ivan Ovcharenko at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information); later named a Ramanujan Fellow at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India; later joined the faculty at IISER Pune]
• David Orlando (CBB), co-supervised with Philip Benfey and Steve Haase
  [started a postdoc with Rick Young at MIT/Whitehead Institute; later joined Syros Pharmaceuticals]
• Andreas Pfenning (CBB), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis
  [started a postdoc with Manolis Kellis at MIT/Broad Institute;
  later joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow]
• Josh Robinson (CS)
  [joined Signal Innovations Group, a machine learning startup; later joined BAE Systems]
• Todd Wasson (CBB)
  [joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab; later joined Netflix]
• Jing Yu (ECE), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis and Paul Wang
  [joined Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research]
• Jianling Zhong (CBB)
  [joined Groupon; later joined LinkedIn; later joined Apple; later joined Google]

Committees

• Alan Boyle (CBB, Terry Furey and Greg Crawford)
  [started a postdoc with Mike Snyder at Stanford;
  later joined the faculty at University of Michigan]
• Bonnie Chen (Cancer Biology, Dave MacAlpine)
  [started a postdoc with Capucine Van Rechem at Stanford]
• Peng Dong (CBB, Bernard Mathey-Prevot and Lingchong You)
  [started a postdoc with James Liu Lan at HHMI Janelia]
• Yanting Dong (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Guidant (acquired by Boston Scientific)]
• Matt Eaton (CBB, David MacAlpine)
  [started a postdoc with Manolis Kellis at MIT/Broad Institute; later joined Syros Pharmaceuticals]
• Lee Elizabeth Edsall (UPGG, Greg Crawford)
  [starting a postdoc with Matt Weirauch at Cincinnati Children's Hospital]
• Pablo Gainza-Cirauqui (CS, Bruce Donald)
  [started a postdoc with Bruno Correia at EPFL]
• Ashish Gehani (CS, Gershon Kedem)
  [started a postdoc with Surendar Chandra at Notre Dame; later joined SRI International]
• Ivelin Georgiev (CS, Bruce Donald)
  [joined the NIH Vaccine Research Center as a research fellow;
  later joined the faculty at Vanderbilt]
• Stoyan Georgiev (CBB, Uwe Ohler and Sayan Mukherjee)
  [started a postdoc with Jonathan Pritchard at Chicago (moved to Stanford); later joined Alphabet/Google]
• Monica Gutierrez (UPGG, Dave MacAlpine)
  [started a postdoc with Debbie Winter at Northwestern]
• Rylee Hackley (UPGG, Amy Schmid)
  [started a postdoc with Steve Bell at Indiana University]
• Dina Hafez (CS, Uwe Ohler)
  [joined Natera]
• Lanie Happ (CBB, Sandeep Dave)
  [joined Data Driven Bioscience, a cancer genomics startup]
• Jonathan Jesneck (BME, Joseph Lo)
  [started a postdoc with Jill Mesirov and Todd Golub at Broad Institute;
  later joined the Field Intelligence Lab at MIT as a Research Scientist; later joined Firefly]
• Shihao Ji (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Yahoo; later joined Microsoft]
• Jonathan (JJ) Jou (CS, Bruce Donald)
  [started a postdoc with Bruce Donald]
• Laura Kavanaugh (UPGG, Fred Dietrich)
  [joined Syngenta Biotechnology]
• Mitch Levesque (UPGG, Philip Benfey)
  [started a postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology;
  later joined the faculty at University of Zurich]
• Qiuhua Liu (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [started a postdoc at Schlumberger-Doll Research]
• Jiuliu Lu (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Beckman Coulter, maybe?]
• Dan Mace (CBB, Uwe Ohler)
  [started a postdoc with Bob Waterston at University of Washington; later joined Microsoft]
• Jeff Martin (CS, Bruce Donald)
  [joined Scalgo, a computational geometry startup]
• Vincentius Martin (CS, Raluca Gordân)
  [joined GlaxoSmithKline]
• Firas Midani (CBB, Lawrence David)
  [started a postdoc with Robert Britton at Baylor College of Medicine]
• Melyssa Minto (CBB, Anne West)
  [joined Research Triangle Institute]
• Ian McDowell (CBB, Tim Reddy)
  [joined Element Genomics (acquired by UCB)]
• Nabil Mustafa (CS, Pankaj Agarwal)
  [started a postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and later EPFL;
  later joined the faculty at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord]
• Johannes Norrell (Physics, Josh Socolar)
  [joined a government agency]
• Constantin Pistol (CS, Alvy Lebeck and Chris Dwyer)
  [joined Apple]
• Harshit Sahay (CBB, Raluca Gordân)
  [started a postdoc with Quaid Morris at Memorial Sloan Kettering]
• Sudheer Sahu (CS, John Reif)
  [joined Microsoft; later joined AT&T Interactive]
• Jungkyun Seo (CBB, Tim Reddy)
  [started a T32-funded postdoc with Kari North and Dana Hancock of the CHARGE Consortium]
• Nathan Sheffield (CBB, Greg Crawford and Terry Furey)
  [started a postdoc with Christoph Bock at Center for Molecular Medicine in Vienna;
  later joined the faculty at Virginia]
• Ning Shen (Cancer Biology, Raluca Gordân)
  [joined Fulcrum Therapeutics]
• Tianqi Song (CS, John Reif)
  [started a postdoc with Lulu Qian at CalTech]
• Jason Stajich (UPGG, Fred Dietrich)
  [Miller Fellowship; started a postdoc with John Taylor at UC Berkeley;
  later joined the faculty at UC Riverside; winner of the Alexopoulos Prize]
• Devang Thakkar (CBB, Sandeep Dave)
  [joined Data Driven Bioscience]
• Peter Tonner (CBB, Amy Schmid)
  [joined NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology); NRC Research Assistantship]
• Florian Wagner (CBB, Sandeep Dave)
  [started a postdoc with Itai Yanai at NYU]
• Hanghang Wang (CBB, Svati Shah)
  [continued medical residency in cardiac surgery at Duke]
• Rui Wang (CBB, Erich Jarvis)
  [joined Beijing Prosperous Biopharm as CEO and President]
• Yingfan Wang (CS, Cynthia Rudin)
  [joined Amazon Web Services]
• Jennifer Weidman (UPGG, Randy Jirtle)
  [started a postdoc with Randy Jirtle at Duke; later joined Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals]
• Joshua Welch (UNC CS, Jan Prins)
  [started a postdoc with Evan Macosko at the Broad Institute;
  later joined the faculty at University of Michigan]
• Ya Xue (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Centice, a sensor technology startup; later joined GE Global Research]
• Gürkan Yardımcı (CBB, Greg Crawford and Uwe Ohler)
  [started a postdoc with Bill Noble at Washington;
  later joined the faculty at Oregon Health and Science University]
• Peng Yin (CS, John Reif)
  [Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation; started a postdoc with Niles Pierce and Erik Winfree at CalTech;
  later joined the faculty at Harvard]
• Jianyang (Michael) Zeng (CS, Bruce Donald)
  [joined the faculty at Tsinghua University in China]
• Carolyn Zhang (BME, Lingchong You)
  [joined GlaxoSmithKline]
• Jenny Zhang (UPGG, Sandeep Dave)
  [joined Immuneering Corporation]
• Yizhe Zhang (CBB, Larry Carin)
  [joined Microsoft Research]
• Zhihong (Joe) Zhang (UPGG, Fred Dietrich)
  [started a postdoc with Stan Fields at University of Washington; later joined Illumina]
• Shiwen Zhao (CBB, Sayan Mukherjee and Barbara Engelhardt)
  [joined FeatureX, a machine learning startup]

Research Initiation Project Committees

• Austin Alexander (CS, Barbara Engelhardt)
• Alan Davidson (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Mark Fashing (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Abhijit Guria (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)
• Charles (Chip) Killian (CS, Amin Vahdat)
• Branka Lakic (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Urmi Majumder (CS, John Reif)
• Mac Mason (CS, Ron Parr)
• Wenbin Pan (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)

Rotations

• Rachel Ballantyne (MD/PhD CS)
• Diana Fusco (CBB)
• Karthik Jayasurya (CBB)
• Ziqi (Alvin) Lu (CMB)
• Samuel Ramirez (CBB)
• George Tretyakov (CBB)

Masters

Supervising

• Abrita Chakravarty (CS)
  [joined Wolfram Research]
• Yasunori Hongo (CS)
  [joined Bank of Japan]
• Pallavi Pratapa (CS)
  [Outstanding Master's Thesis; joined UBS Warburg; later joined Lenovo]
• David Vaughn (CS)
  [joined Modality, a software startup; later joined Measurement Incorporated]

Committees

• Kanishk Asthana (BME, Lingchong You)
• Avik Bhattacharya (CS, Terry Furey)
• Anaghe Gupta (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Nicholas Haynes (Physics, Dan Gauthier)
• Kuan-ming Lin (CS, Larry Carin)
• Zachery Mielko (CS, Raluca Gordân)
• Arvind Sastry (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Paul Shealy (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Boqian Shi (CS, Tan Songdechakraiwut)
• Rumen Stamatov (CBB, Raluca Gordân)
• Jie Xu (CS, Uwe Ohler)
• Ming Yang (CS, John Reif)
• Farica Zhuang (CS, Raluca Gordân)

Undergraduate

Supervising

• Alexandra (Tally) Balaban (Math)
  [joined NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center); later entered grad school in Biostatistics at UNC]
• Kshipra Bhawalkar (Math/CS)
  [entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford; later joined Google Research]
• Jason Bosko (ECE/CS)
  [joined SAS]
• Scott Brothers (CS/Math)
  [Alex Vasilos Award; joined Microsoft]
• Brian Bullins (Math/CS)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at Princeton;
  later joined the faculty at Purdue]
• Jer-Yee (John) Chuang (ECE/CS)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; entered grad school in Bioinformatics at UCSF]
• Forest Cummings-Taylor (CS/Philosophy)
  [joined Microsoft]
• Matt Edwards (CS/Math)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; Alex Vasilos Award; joined IonTorrent;
  later entered grad school in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT; later joined Verily]
• Daphne Ezer (CS/Biology)
  [Marshall Scholar; Graduation with Highest Distinction; Duke Faculty Scholar; Alex Vasilos Award;
  entered grad school in Genetics at Cambridge; later named a Turing Research Fellow]
• Eric Fountain (Math)
  [entered grad school in Physics at Princeton]
• Mike Gloudemans (CS/Biology)
  [Graduation with Highest Distinction; Alex Vasilos Award; entered grad school in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford]
• Daniel Greenblatt (CS)
  [entered grad school in Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech]
• Kelvin Gu (post-baccalaureate), co-supervised with David Dunson
  [entered grad school in Statistics at Stanford; later joined Google AI]
• Paul Heymann (CS/Philosophy)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford]
• Boyoun (Sarah) Jung (CS/Biology)
  [interned for the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea at Cheong Wa Dae ("Blue House");
  later entered medical school at Dartmouth]
• Brody Kellish (ECE/CS/Math)
  [joined Google]
• Newton Kwan (Physics)
  [joined Zume, a food supply chain analytics company]
• Abigail Lin (CS/Biology)
  [entered medical school at Johns Hopkins]
• Charles Lin (Biology)
  [entered grad school in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT;
  later joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine]
• Jonathan Mathew (CS)
  [entered medical school at UNC]
• Jackson (Jack) Michuda (CS/Biology)
  [joined Tempus]
• Kyle Moran (CS/Biology)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered grad school in Computational Biology at Duke]
• Jimmy Mu (CS)
  [Graduation with Distinction; joined Microsoft]
• Hayley Pearson (CS)
• Nikhil Saxena (BME/ECE)
  [joined Yelp]
• Bella Smith (Public Policy)
  [joined MuddyWater, a film production company]
• Michael Vogelsong (BME)
  [joined Amazon]
• Pranav Warman (CS/Biology)
  [entered medical school at Duke]
• Austin Weiss (Computational Biology)
  [entered medical school at Yale]
• Aaron Wise (ECE/CS)
  [joined Google; later entered grad school in Computational Biology at CMU; later joined Illumina]
• Albert Xue (Math/CS)
  [entered grad school in Bioinformatics at UCLA]
• Alex Yearley (CS)
  [started a research position at Brigham and Women's Hospital; later entered medical school at Harvard]
• Jia Zeng (CS/ECE)
  [joined LinkedIn]
• Derek Zhou (CS/Biology)
  [Graduation with Distinction; joined Citigroup]

Committees

• Clay Baker (CS, Diego Bohórquez)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered medical school at Vanderbilt]
• Andrew Declercq (CS, Ron Parr)
  [joined IBM]
• Brian Du (Program II, Zhicheng Ji)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered medical school at Baylor College of Medicine]
• Rachel Freedman (CS/Psychology, Vincent Conitzer)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; joined Galatea Associates;
  later entered grad school in Computer Science at UC Berkeley]
• JT Galla (Neuroscience, Jonathan Young)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered medical school at Wash U]
• Rita Glazer (CS, Jason Somarelli)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered medical school at SUNY Buffalo]
• Sid Gopinath (CS, Robert Calderbank)
  [Graduation with Distinction; joined Namely]
• Jerry Huang (CS, David Banks and Adele Quigley-McBride)
  [Graduation with Distinction; joined Old Mission Capital; later joined VectorShift]
• Yuxi (Jaden) Long (CS/Math, Bruce Donald)
  [Graduation with Highest Distinction; Alex Vasilos Award; entered grad school in Computational Biology and Medicine at Cornell Weill]
• Zanele Munyikwa (CS, Jeff Forbes)
  [Graduation with Distinction; started a research fellowship at Stanford School of Business;
  later entered grad school at MIT Sloan School of Business]
• Patrick Paczkowski (CS, Terry Furey)
  [Graduation with Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at Yale]
• Kash Sreeram (Program II, Andrew West)
  [Graduation with Highest Distinction; applying to medical schools]
• Aditya Sridhar (CS/ECE, Krish Chakrabarty)
  [Graduation with Highest Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at Columbia]
• Katherine (Beth) Trushkowsky (CS, Jeff Forbes)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at UC Berkeley;
  later joined the faculty at Harvey Mudd]
• Caleb Watson (CS/Biology, Bruce Donald)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; entered medical school at University of Pittsburgh]
• Barbara Xiong (CS, Sandeep Dave)
  [Graduation with Highest Distinction; entered medical school at UPenn]
• Helen Xu (CS/Biology, Lingchong You)
  [Graduation with Distinction; joined Arrowstreet Capital]
• David Zhou (CS/ECE/BME, Bruce Donald)
  [Graduation with High Distinction; joined Google]