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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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.
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Jiachen Cai
Jiachen Cai, PhD, received her PhD from University of Cambridge developing Gaussian process models and methods for the analysis of biomedical data.
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Jiawen Chen
Jiawen Chen, PhD, received her PhD from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying spatial genomics data and Gaussian processes.
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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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Luis Chumpitaz Diaz
Luis Chumpitaz Diaz is a PhD student in Stanford’s Biophysics Program.
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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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Rebecca Hurwitz
Rebecca Hurwitz is a PhD student at Stanford University in the BDS program studying wearable data and environmental effects on health.
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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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Aishwarya Mandyam
Aishwarya Mandyam is a PhD student in Stanford’s Computer Science Department.
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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
Lab Alumni
Derek Aguiar (Postdoc, 2014-2018) Associate 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.
Dylan Cable (Postdoc 2023-2024) Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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
Mozhgan Saedi (Postdoc, 2022-2024)
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 2023-2025) Genentech
Ha Vu (Postdoc 2022-2024)
Chi-Yun Wu (Postdoc, 2022-2024)
Jiayu Yao (Postdoc, 2022-2024) Postdoc, Columbia University
Boyang Zhang (Postdoc, 2022-2024)
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
Marcus Blennemann (CS, UC San Diego, Undergraduate Class of 2029)
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)
Adrian Molofsky (CS, Stanford University, Undergraduate Class of 2024)
Andrew Semelhago (ORFE, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)
Priyanka Shrestha (CS, Stanford University, Undergraduate Class of 2024)
Maxim Zaslavsky (CS, Princeton University, Undergraduate Class of 2017)
Weiwei (Vivian) Zhang (MGM Duke University, Masters 2012-2014)