People

Faculty members


Giri Narasimhan (Head)
Faculty in Computer Scieince
Microbiomes & General Bioinformatics

Trevor Cickovski
Faculty in Computer Science
Software Engineering

Kalai Mathee
Professor, College of Medicine; ASM Fellow
Transcription & Antibiotic Resistance

Ananda Mondal
Faculty in Computer Science
Epigenetics & Cancer Genomics

Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG)


Arpit Mehta
Graduate Student
Genomics

Azam Shirali
Graduate Student

Parshatd Govindasami
Graduate Student

Ricardo Ruiz
Graduate Student

Masrur Sobhan
Graduate Student

Mohsena Begum
Graduate Student
Bioinformatics

Eric Nayman
MD Student
HWCOM

Alayna Gumabong
Undergrad Student
HWCOM

Algorithms for Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Computing Systems (AMaDAyS)


Jimeng Shi
Graduate Student
Machine Learning

Rukmangadh Sai Myana
Graduate Student
Machine Learning

Saad Alqarni
Graduate Student
Machine Learning

Recent Visitors, Collaborators, and Volunteers


Scot Connor (HWCOM Medical Student, 2020).

Ji In Park (Visiting Scholar, 2020). Nephrologist, South Korea

Medhini Narasimhan (Summer Research Visitor, 2016).

Farid Rajabli (Visiting Scholar, 2016). ML, Turkey

Nolan Hofstee (HWCOM Medical Student, 2020).

Kevin Bennett (HWCOM Medical Student, 2020).

Yoon Mi Shin (Visiting Scholar, 2020). Pulmonologist, South Korea

Joaquin Zabalo (Post-doctoral Scientist, 2016-18). Bioinformatics

Alumni


Vitalii Stebliankin (PhD, 2023), Amazon Inc.

Farzana Yusuf (PhD, 2021), Amazon Inc.

Isabella Gimon (BS, 2021), currently PhD Student @ Notre Dame U

Daniel Ruiz-Perez (PhD, 2020), FaceBook Inc.

Camilo Valdes, (PhD, 2020), Postdoc, U Nebraska

Bhavyta Chauhan (B.S. 2019). FareLogix

Giuseppe Vietri (M.S. 2018), Now a PhD student at U Minnesota

Jeehyun (Jina) Park (Research Volunteer, 2017)

Astrid Manuel (Research Volunteer, Metabolomics, 2017)

Juan Daniel Riveros (M.S. 2015). Network Analytics. 1st Employment: Ultimate Software

Muhil Prabakar (Research Volunteer, 2015). Biomedical Sciences. Now at: Boston University

Mitch (Misael) Fernandez (B.S. 2013). Metagenomics. Now at: U Michigan

Deborah Plana (H.S. 2013). High School Volunteer, Bioinformatics. Now at: MIT

Xing Yang (M.S. 2011). General Bioinformatics

Daniel Medvin (M.S. 2011). Comparative Genomics

Erliang Zeng (Ph.D., 2007). Data Mining. Current: Professor @ U Iowa

Patricia Buendia (Ph.D., 2006). Phylogenetics. 1st Employment: InfoTech Inc.

Raihanul Bari Tanvir (Ph.D. 2023), Boehringer Ingelheim Inc.

Abdullah Al Mamun (PhD. 2022), Meta Inc.

Musfiqur Sazal (PhD, 2020), Microsoft Corp.

Tasmia Aqila (M.S. 2020), Amazon Inc.

Eysler Paz (B.S. 2020), Progrmaming Team, Cache Optimization; Now at FaceBook Inc.

Haibin Guan (M.S. 2019). Machine Learning, Data Science

Hugo Riggs (Grad Student, 2017-18). Bioinformatics

Wendy Aleman Martinez (B.S. 2018), Now at Ultimate Software Inc.

Victoria (Vicky) Suarez-Ulloa (Research Volunteer, 2017)

Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-16). 1st Employment: Weill Cornell Medicine

Deepak Balasubramanian (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013). Postdoc, Harvard

Gisela Gonzalez (B.S. 2010). Metagenomics

Roxana Ordonez (B.S., 2008). Comparative Genomics

Tom Milledge (M.S., 2008). Structure Pattern Discovery. Now at: Duke University

Chengyong Yang (Ph.D., 2006). Data Mining & Microarray Analysis. 1st Employment: Applied BioSystems, Inc.

Gaolin Zheng (Ph.D., 2006). Microarray Analysis. Now: Professor @ North Carolina Central University

Melita Jaric

Melita Jaric (Posthumous Ph.D., 2013)
In Memoriam
Melita Jaric passed away on March 11, 2013.
A bright, promising life was snuffed out in a careless hit-and-run accident.
For more details, click here

Collaborators


Saurabh Chatterjee, UC Irvine, CA

Ziv Bar-Joseph, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Prem Chapagain, Physics, FIU

Sukumar Ganapati, Public Policy & Administration, FIU

Jose M. Eirin-Lopez, Biological Sciences, FIU, Miami, FL

Michael Campos, College of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Matthias A. Salathe, College of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Timothy Collins, Biology, FIU

Segun George, Professor of Statistics, Mathematical Sciences Department, The University of Memphis, TN

Marty Handfield, SVP, Oragenics Inc., FL

David Kuhn, (Retd.) USDA, Miami, FL

Deborah Yoder-Himes, U Kentucky

Ranjan Duara, Mt. Sinai, Miami Beach

Maria Abreu, U Miami

Aditi Gurkar, U Pittsburgh

Jessica Liberles, Biology, FIU

Purnima Madhivanan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Shaoming Cheng, Public Policy & Administration, FIU

Stephen Lory, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

DeEtta Mills, Biology, FIU

Saumyadipta Pyne, U Pittsburgh

V. Renugopalakrishnan, BioFold Inc.

Isidore Rigoutsos, Thomas Jefferson Univ., PA

Sanjeev Samant, Radiation Oncology, U Florida, Gainesville

Tom Sutter, Professor and Feinstone Chair of Excellence, The University of Memphis, TN