The Alumni
Alumni Intro Title
Alumni

Margo MacDonald, PhD
Asst Teaching Professor, Biomed Eng, UNC/NCSU
Degree Year: 2024
Mentors: Margaret Gardel, Melody Swartz

Daozheng Gong, PhD
Postdoc, Harvard University
Degree Year: 2024
Mentors: Norbert Scherer, Jason MacLean

Vilmos Zsolnay, PhD
Financial Consultant, Bain & Company
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Dave Kovar, Greg Voth

Elizabeth White, PhD
Patent Scientist, Quarles and Brady
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Ed Munro

Iva Veseli, PhD
Post-doc, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at Oldenburg
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Meren, Bana Jabri

Steven Redford, PhD
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship, University College, London
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Margaret Gardel

Jessica Morgan, PhD
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Educational Outreach Coordinator
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Jean Greenberg, Bozhi Tian

Andrew Molina, PhD
MSTP, return to meidcal training
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, BenoÎt Roux

Kourtney Kroll, PhD
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, Ron Rock

Hendrik Glauninger, PhD
MSTP, return to medical training
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: D. Allan Drummond, Tobin Sosnick

Wen-hung Chou, PhD
Postdoc, Washington University
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Margaret Gardel, Dave Kovar

Walter Alvarado, PhD
Scientist, Space Biosciences Research Branch, NASA
Degree Year: 2023
Mentors: Juan de Pablo, Andrew Ferguson

Yifan Zhou, PhD
Bioinformatics Scientist 2, GRAIL
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: Mengjie Chen, Xin He

Vedant Sachdeva, PhD
Research Scientist, Platform research, Evozyne
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: Stephanie Palmer, Arvind Murugan

Amar Risbud, PhD
Postdoc, City College of New York
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: Stephanie Palmer, Mark Westneat

Andrés Moya Rodríguez, PhD
Asst Professor, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: Oni Basu, Jun Huang

Young Hoon Koh, PhD
Postdoc, Seoul National University
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: Benoît Roux, Eduardo Perozo

Evan Kiefl, PhD
Protein Bioinformatician, Arcadia Science
Degree Year: 2022
Mentors: A. Murat Eren, Sean Crosson

Jiacheng (Jeff) Zhang, PhD
ReviR Therapeutics
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Jingyi Fei, Chuan He

Alan Selewa, PhD
Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Xin He, Oni Basu

Matthew Reyer, PhD
Computational Biologist, III
Oregon Health & Science University
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Jingyi Fei, Aaron Dinner

Devin Harrison, PhD
Scientist, Tome Biosciences
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Jun Huang, Yun Fang

Nabil Faruk, PhD
Senior Scientist, QuantX Biosciences
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Benoît Roux, Tobin Sosnick

Christopher Boughter, PhD
Position: Postdoc, NIH
Degree Year: 2021
Mentors: Erin Adams, Benoît Roux

Catherine Triandafillou, PhD
Damon Runyon Postdoc Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Degree Year: 2020
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, D. Allan Drummond

Alon Shaiber, PhD
Position: Computational Biology Team Lead
Ummunai
Degree Year: 2020
Mentors: Eugene Chang, Murat Eren

Lu Hong, PhD
Position: Research Scientist, AbCellera
Degree Year: 2020
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Michael Rust

Wenli Dai, MD PhD
Position: Resident physician, UPMC
Degree Year: 2020
Mentors: Pancho Bezanilla, Christopher Weber

Héctor Acarón Ledesma, PhD
Position: Bioengineering Scientist, ODDITY
Degree Year: 2020
Mentors: Bozhi Tian, Wei Wei

Vaughn Spurrier, PhD
Position: Data Scientist, Proscia
Degree Year: 2019
Mentors: Jason MacLean, Stephanie Palmer

Kevin Song, PhD
Position: Data Scientist, Amazon Web Services
Degree Year: 2019
Mentors: Tobin Sosnick, Benoît Roux

Ryan Mork, Ph.D.
Position: Director of Data, Evozyne
Degree Year: 2019
Mentors: Julie Bubeck-Wardenburg, Andrey Rzhetsky

Daniel Kerr, PhD
Beamline Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Degree Year: 2019
Mentor: Ka Yee Lee

César Cardona, PhD
Position: Senior Bioinformatics Cloud Engineer, Second Genome, Inc.
Degree Year: 2019
Mentors: Jack Gilbert, Christopher Henry

Joshua Riback, PhD
Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Degree Year: 2018
Mentors: D. Allan Drummond, Tobin Sosnick

Ramya Parameswaran, MD PhD
Position: Resident physician, UCSF
Degree Year: 2018
Mentors: Bozhi Tian, Erin Adams

Boleslaw Osinski, PhD
Position: Senior Data Scientist, Tempus, Inc
Degree Year: 2018
Mentors: Leslie Kay, Nicolas Brunel

Eugene Leypunskiy, PhD
Position: Financial Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Degree Year: 2018
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Michael Rust

Samantha Stam, PhD
Position: Postdoc, University of Utah
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Wendy Zhang, Margaret Gardel

Monika Scholz, PhD
Position: Group Leader, Caesar Institute in Bonn, Germany
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, David Biron

Gabriel Salzman, MD PhD
Position: Resident physician, Stanford University
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Shohei Koide, Demet Araç-Özkan

William McFadden, PhD
Position: Data Scientist, Color Genomics
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Ed Munro, Margaret Gardel

Herman Gudjonson, PhD
Position: Postdoc, Sloan Kettering
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Albert Bendelac

Vu Dinh, PhD
Position: Resident Physician, Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Degree Year: 2017
Mentors: Chuan He, Bana Jabri

Alan Hutchison, MD PhD
Position: Resident physician, University of Chicago
Degree Year: 2016
Mentors: Aaron Dinner, Chuan He

Moira Flanagan, PhD
Position: Laboratory Instructor in Biochemistry and Chemistry, Smith College
Degree Year: 2016
Mentor: Greg Engel

Peter Dahlberg, PhD
Position: Panofsky fellow, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Degree Year: 2016
Mentor: Greg Engel

Charles Wright, Ph.D.
Position: Director of Data Innovation, Prescouter, Inc
Degree Year: 2015
Mentors: David Biron, Norbert F. Scherer

David Weinstein, Ph.D.
Position: Data Scientist, Colfax Communications
Degree Year: 2015
Mentors: Shohei Koide, Richard B. Jones

Caitlin Sullivan Trejo, PhD
Position: Risk Manager, McKinsey & Company
Degree Year: 2015
Mentors: Phoebe Rice, Ronald S. Rock

Guillermina Ramírez-San Juan, PhD
Position: Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Degree Year: 2015
Mentor: Margaret Gardel

Sean Gibbons, Ph.D.
Position: Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Degree Year: 2015
Mentors: Jack Gilbert, Maureen Coleman

James Crooks, PhD
Position: Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Google
Degree Year: 2015
Mentors: Ridgway Scott, Erin Adams

Ivy Fitzgerald, PhD
Position: Instructor, Missouri State University
Degree Year: 2014
Mentors: Benjamin S. Glick, Chuan He

Ernesto Vargas, PhD
Position: Postdoc, Northwestern University, 2014-2017
Degree Year: 2013
Mentors: Francisco Bezanilla, Benoît Roux

Gregory Tietjen, PhD
Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Degree Year: 2013
Mentors: Ka Yee C. Lee, Erin Adams

David Medovoy, PhD
Position: Director, Juvenescence
Degree Year: 2013
Mentors: Benoît Roux, Eduardo Perozo

Phillip Long, PhD
Position: Solution Manager, McKinsey & Company
Degree Year: 2013
Mentor: Greg Engel

Tobias Falzone, PhD
Position: Postdoc, UCSD 2013-2015
Degree Year: 2012
Mentors: Margaret Gardel, David Kovar