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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Rachel Guo

    Rachel Guo

    Rachel Guo is a PhD student in ICME at Stanford University working on developing models and methods for data from wearable devices.

  • Joshua Lazero

    Joshua Lazero

    Joshua Lazero is a PhD student in Stanford's Biomedical Data Science program, co-advised by Erin Mordecai.

  • 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