Beehive Members

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    Barbara Engelhardt

    Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institutes, Professor at Stanford University, CIFAR Fellow. Previously Professor at Princeton University in the Computer Science Department (2014-2022), and Assistant Professor at Duke University in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Department (2011-2014).

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    Liz Nguyen

    Liz Nguyen is an Administrative Assistant at Gladstone Institutes. She received her B.S. from University of Wisconsin.

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    Leo Epstein

    Leo Epstein is a Research Associate at Gladstone Institutes. He is visiting us during his PhD studies in Europe.

Postdocs

  • Syrine Belakaria

    Syrine Belakaria

    Syrine Belakaria, PhD, received her PhD from Washington State University studying sequential decision making under uncertainty for scientific problems. She is co-mentored by Stefano Ermon and is a Stanford Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow.

  • Dylan Cable

    Dylan Cable

    Dylan Cable, PhD, received his PhD from MIT in 2023. His research focuses on developing methods for single cell genomics data.

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    Sarah Nyquist

    Sarah Nyquist, PhD, received her PhD from MIT in 2022. Her research focuses on women’s health, including single-cell analyses of breast milk after COVID exposure.

  • Mozhgan Saeidi

    Mozhgan Saeidi

    Mozhgan Saeidi, PhD, received her PhD from University of Toronto studying genes and gene networks through the lens of mathematics, graph theory, and combinatorics.

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    Archit Verma

    Archit Verma, PhD, received his PhD from Princeton in 2021. His research focuses on dynamic models of cells in live-cell images and methods for protein editing.

  • Ha Vu

    Ha Vu

    Ha Vu, PhD, received her PhD from UCLA in 2023. Her research focuses on developing methods to study genomic and epigenetic markers.

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    Chi-Yun Wu

    Chi-Yun Wu, PhD, received her PhD from UPenn in 2022. Her work focuses on the analysis solid tumors, studying the tumor-immune microenvironment.

  • Jiayu Yao

    Jiayu Yao

    Jiayu Yao, PhD, received her PhD fro Harvard in 2023. Her research focuses on reinforcement learning methods and decision making in health care.

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    Boyang Zhang

    Boyang Zhang, PhD, received her PhD from Johns Hopkins in 2022. She is a joint postdoc with Anshul Kundaje. Her work focuses on structured models for single-cell genomics.

Graduate Students

  • Luis Chumpitaz Diaz

    Luis Chumpitaz Diaz

    Luis Chumpitaz Diaz is a PhD student in Stanford’s Biophysics Program.

  • Siena Dumas Ang

    Siena Dumas Ang

    Siena Dumas Ang is a PhD student in Princeton’s QCB program. She won the 2024 Dance your PhD competition with her amazing dancing.

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    Aishwarya Mandyam

    Aishwarya Mandyam is a PhD student in Stanford’s Computer Science Department.

  • Esther Robb

    Esther Robb

    Esther Robb is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford, jointly advised by Stephen Mongomery.

  • Arpita Singhal

    Arpita Singhal

    Arpita Singhal is a PhD student in Stanford’s Computer Science Department, co-advised by Maya Kasowski and Anshul Kundaje.

Undergraduate, Masters, and Visiting Students

  • Priyanka Shrestha

    Priyanka Shrestha

    Priyanka Shrestha is an undergraduate student in Computer Science working on Gaussian process inference methods.

Close Collaborators and Rotation Students

Lab Alumni

Derek Aguiar (Postdoc, 2014-2018) Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Mehmet Basbug (PhD, 2014-2016) Machine Learning Engineer, Lion Cave Capital

Ashlee Benjamin (Postdoc, 2013-2015) Director of Business Development, Torus, Inc.

Diana Cai (PhD, 2017-2023) Postdoctoral Fellow, Flatiron Institute.

Mark Carty (Postdoc, 2016-2019) Computational Scientist, Tempus, Inc.

Allison Chaney (Postdoc, 2016-2019) Assistant Professor, Duke University

Li-Fang Cheng (PhD, 2014-2019) Computational Scientist at Verily

Greg Darnell (PhD, 2014-2019) Research Scientist at Apple

Roberta De Vito (Postdoc, 2016-2019) Assistant Professor, Brown University

Bianca Dumitrascu (PhD, 2014-2019) Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Chuan Gao (Postdoc, 2012-2015) Associate Director, Center for Observational Research & Data Sciences, BMS

Ariel Gewirtz (PhD, 2015-2022) Data Scientist, Meliora

Gregory Gundersen (PhD, 2016-2021) Quantitative Researcher, Millennium

Brian Jo (PhD, 2014-2021) Senior Data Engineer, MarketReader

Andrew Jones (PhD, 2018-2022) Data Scientist, Viking Global Investors

Didong Li (Postdoc, 2020-2022) Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

Guillaume Martinet (PhD, 2017-2021) Associate Strategist, Morgan Stanley

Ian McDowell (PhD, 2013-2017) Senior Principal Data Scientist, Element Genomics, Inc.

Fantine Mordelet (Postdoc, 2012-2014) Data Scientist, Salezeo

Niranjani Prasad (PhD, 2015-2020) Researcher, Microsoft Research

Danny Simpson (PhD, 2016-2023)

Sanvesh Srivastava (Postdoc, 2013-2015) Associate Professor, University of Iowa

Will Townes (Postdoc, 2019-2022) Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Archit Verma (PhD, 2016-2021) Postdoc, BEEHIVE

Michael Zhang (Postdoc, 2018-2020) Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Shiwen Zhao (PhD 2012-2016) Machine Learning Research Scientist, Apple

Lab Undergraduates and Master’s Students

Theodore Brundage (CS, Princeton University, Masters 2015-2017)

Sunny Cui (CS, Princeton University, Masters 2020-2022)

Promise Ekpo (CS, Princeton University, Masters 2021-2023)

Vladimir Feinberg (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)

Karen Feng (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2018)

Tiana Fitzgerald (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2022)

Isabella Grabski (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2018)

Grace Guan (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2020)

Eric Ham (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2021)

Kayla Hudson (DSS, Duke University, Undergraduate 2013-2014)

David Kuo (BMI, Stanford University, Masters 2022-2023)

Lydia Liu (ORFE, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)

Jonathan Lu (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2019)

Andrew Semelhago (ORFE, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)

Maxim Zaslavsky (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)

Weiwei (Vivian) Zhang (MGM Duke University, Masters 2012-2014)