Students

Ammal Abbasi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Cemil Can Ali Marandi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Maria Luisa Amaral

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2018-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Ethan Armand

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Gene regulation, epigenome, deep learning

B.S., Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego

2023 Daniel T. O’Connor Genetics Scholar
2021 Jacobs School of Engineering Powell Fellow

Jessica Au

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computation- Biology emphasis, University of California, Davis, 2017
Minor, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, University of California, Davis, 2017

Arjana Begzati

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Metabolomics

B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2019

Dante Bolzan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Christopher Brown

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Yuwei Cao

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Nicholas Chan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Eduardo Charvel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Daisy Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Degnhui (Den) Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Complex variants

B.S., Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2019

2025-2028 NIH NRSA F31 Individual Predoctoral Fellowship

Apurva Chitre

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Michael Cuoco

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Genomics approaches to understanding retrotransposon activity in the human brain

B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Trinity College-Connecticut, 2017

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Weixiu Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2023-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jenny Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Xiaomi Du

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biology, Caltech, 2016

2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Hyrum Eddington

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

2023-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

2025 National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship

Vicente Fajardo Rosas

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Keegan Flanagan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Yi Fu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Stochastic Processes, Epigenetics

B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2016
B.S., Biology with specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2016

Lia Gale

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Lilian Gao

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Aidan Glina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Karla P. Godinez-Macias

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2016
M.S., Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2019

Jean Gonzalez

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Wilfredo Gabriel Gonzalez Rivera

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Social Science and Determinants of Health in Predictive Models

B.S., Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2022

B.S., Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2022

2024-26 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM-T15) Training Grant Fellowship

2024-25 ABRCMS Leadership Development Academy Scholar 

2023-26 Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Fellowship Scholar

2023-25 STARS Graduate Advocate

2023-25 PATHS Graduate Advocate

2023-24 NextProfPathfinder Scholar and Mentor

2022-26 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Scholar and Mentor

2022-25 Competitive Edge Fellowship Scholar and Mentor

Cristian Gonzalez-Colin

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Caitlin Guccione

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Cancer microbiome & mathematical modeling

B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
B.A., Computer Science, University of Rhode Island
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Daniel Halmos

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.A., Computer Science, Columbia University, 2021

Bhavya Harjai

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Fatemeh Heydari

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biotechnology, University of Tehran
M.S., Biotechnology, University of Tehran

Sanofi Grant

Laura Hinojosa

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Molly Huang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Ashley Hui

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Michael Iter

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Alex Jambor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Physics, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

Jeff Jaureguy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Predicting the effects of genetic variants on chromatin accessibility with a deep learning approach

B.S., Biology, California State University San Marcos, 2020

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

2020-24 Sloan Fellowship

2021-23 STARs Fellow

2023-25 Human Genetics Scholar Award from the American Society of Human Genetics

2024-27 NIH F31 NRSA

Brian Johnson

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

2021-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Adam Jussila

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Ningxin Kang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Azhar Khandekar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2016

National Cancer Institute's Cancer Research Training Award

Jonathan Kirkland

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Ramanarayanan Kizhuttil

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Amit Klein

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Adam Klie

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2017

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Emily Kobayashi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Zane Koch

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

David Laub

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

2021-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Ko-Han Lee

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Cancer immunology

M.D., National Taiwan University, 2019

Harrison Ma

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: single cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, gene regulation

B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, UC San Diego, 2022
B.S. Cognitive Science w/ Spec in ML and Neural Comp, UC San Diego, 2022

Zinnia Ma

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Behrooz Mamandipoor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Arya Massarat

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Fine-mapping, Reproducibility

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2020

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Daira Melendez

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.A., Double Major: Biology, Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2015
M.P.H, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington - Seattle, 2019

Sloan Scholar Fellowship

Douglas Meyer

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA, 2017

Alexander Monell

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Spatial CRISPR KO screening in CD8 T cells

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2022

Hannah Mummey

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biochemistry, Wellesley College, 2020

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Deepti Murthy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Raimon Padrós I Valls

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Eunjae Park

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Jeremy Parker Yang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Lucas Patel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Daniela Perry

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Statistics, Cornell University

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Timothy Pham

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Madeleine Pittigher

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Computational Biology, Brown University, 2024

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Avery Pong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Spatial transcriptomics, cell-cell interaction inference, isoform-resolution differential expression

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2019

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Noa Popko

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Dexter Pratt

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Karen Pu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Anna Qi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biology: Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego, 2022

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Gege Qian

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Applied Math, University of California San Diego, 2019
M.S., Immunology, Harvard Medical School, 2021

Abid Rehman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Sam Reynolds

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Molly Sacks

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.A., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2022

Daniela Salgado Figueroa

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Ali Sapci

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Varshini Sathish

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Timothy Sears

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy response prediction

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara, 2020

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Sam Shen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.ASc., Biomedical Engineering (Bioinformatics Track), University of British Columbia, 2021

Severine Soltani

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in Machine Learning and Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 2020
Minor, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 2020

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Simone Spandau

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Kiki Spaulding

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Anjali Srinivasan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Bioinformatics, UC San Diego, 2023

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Felipe Vasquez Castro

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Cell signaling, post-translational modifications (PTMs), phosphorylation, protein mass spectrometry

B.S., Chemistry, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020

Yotam Voskoboynik

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Zach Wallace

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Applied Mathematics, Tufts University, 2018
M.A.S. Data Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2023

Rosan Wang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Peter Wang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Jade Wang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Infectious diseases

B.S., Nutrition and Dietetics, New York University, 2011
M.S., Bioinformatics, New York University, 2017

Sherlyn Weng

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Jiaming Weng

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Sarah Wright

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Network genetics

M.Eng. Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
B.S. Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

Heng Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Shuhao Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Tianyao Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2021
B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2021

Banghua Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

B.S., Biology and Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2023

Ziqi Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Kuan-Hung Yeh

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Zaid Yousif

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Grace Yu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

B.S., Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2021

2022-25 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Wenshu Zhang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 2023

Haoran Zhang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Mutational signatures, Somatic mutations, Cancer genetics

B.S., Biochemistry/Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2023
B.S., Biology with a specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2023

Haowen Zhou

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

B.S., Biological Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021

M.S., Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University, 2023