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.
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Tania Mergudich Thal
Tania Mergudich Thal, MD, is an OB/GYN clinician working as a Research Scientist with our group.
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Julie Tran
Julie Tran is a Research Associate working on methods to analyze live-cell imaging data for cancer immunology.
Postdocs
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Alex Dombowsky
Alex Dombowsky, PhD, received his PhD from Duke University Statistics Department in 2025. His research focuses on statistical modeling for spatiotemporal biomedical data.
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Sushrima Gan
Sushrima Gan, PhD, received her PhD from the University of Dundee and works at the intersection of pediatric cardiology, genomics, and machine learning.
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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.
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Edric Tam
Edric Tam, PhD, received his PhD from Duke University in 2024. His research focuses on the role of networks and perturbations on biological systems.
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Adam Weiner
Adam Weiner, PhD, received his PhD from MSKCC in 2024. His research focuses on developing methods to study live-cell imaging data for cancer immunotherapies.
Graduate Students
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Esther Elonga
Esther Elonga is an MD/PhD student at Stanford University with research interests at the intersection of computational biology, drug discovery, and precision medicine.
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Rachel Guo
Rachel Guo is a PhD student in ICME at Stanford University working on developing models and methods for data from wearable devices.
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Joshua Lazero
Joshua Lazero is a PhD student in Stanford's Biomedical Data Science program, co-advised by Erin Mordecai.
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Ally Nicolella
Ally Nicolella is a PhD student at UCSF studying statistical models for mental health and wearable data.
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Esther Robb
Esther Robb is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford, jointly advised by Stephen Mongomery.
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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
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Justin Adjasu
Justin Adjasu is a Master’s student at Stanford University in the BDS program working on live-cell imaging data.
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Alina Gavrilov
Alina Gavrilov is a Master’s student working on the analysis of wearable data for menstrual cycle tracking.
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Leah McGillicuddy
Leah McGillicuddy is an undergraduate at Stanford University working on methods for wearable data.
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Ivan Lopez Rodriguez
Ivan Lopez Rodriguez is a Medical student and a DBDS PhD student at Stanford. He is working on machine learning analyses of live-cell imaging data and methods for larger live-cell screens.
Close Collaborators and Rotation Students