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.

  • Tania Mergudich Thal

    Tania Mergudich Thal

    Tania Mergudich Thal, MD, is an OB/GYN clinician working as a Research Scientist with our group.

  • Julie Tran

    Julie Tran

    Julie Tran is a Research Associate working on methods to analyze live-cell imaging data for cancer immunology.

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.

  • Jiachen Cai

    Jiachen Cai

    Jiachen Cai, PhD, received her PhD from University of Cambridge developing Gaussian process models and methods for the analysis of biomedical data.

  • Jiawen Chen

    Jiawen Chen

    Jiawen Chen, PhD, received her PhD from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying spatial genomics data and Gaussian processes.

  • Alex Dombowsky

    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.

  • Sushrima Gan

    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.

  • Edric Tam

    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.

  • Adam Weiner

    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

  • Luis Chumpitaz Diaz

    Luis Chumpitaz Diaz

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

  • Esther Elonga

    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.

  • Rebecca Hurwitz

    Rebecca Hurwitz

    Rebecca Hurwitz is a PhD student at Stanford University in the BDS program studying wearable data and environmental effects on health.

  • Joshua Lazero

    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.

  • Ally Nicolella

    Ally Nicolella

    Ally Nicolella is a PhD student at UCSF studying statistical models for mental health and wearable data.

  • 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

  • Justin Adjasu

    Justin Adjasu

    Justin Adjasu is a Master’s student at Stanford University in the BDS program working on live-cell imaging data.

  • Alina Gavrilov

    Alina Gavrilov

    Alina Gavrilov is a Master’s student working on the analysis of wearable data for menstrual cycle tracking.

  • Leah McGillicuddy

    Leah McGillicuddy

    Leah McGillicuddy is an undergraduate at Stanford University working on methods for wearable data.

  • Ivan Lopez Rodriguez

    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)