Students

Ammal Abbasi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Cemil Can Ali Marandi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: lamaral@ucsd.edu

Maria Luisa Amaral

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Bing Ren
Special Funding/Awards:

2018-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Website

Email: earmand@ucsd.edu

Ethan Armand

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Bing Ren

Research Interests: Gene regulation, epigenome, deep learning

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego


Special Funding/Awards:

2023 Daniel T. O’Connor Genetics Scholar
2021 Jacobs School of Engineering Powell Fellow

Email: jeau@ucsd.edu

Jessica Au

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Mathematics and Scientific Computation- Biology emphasis, University of California, Davis, 2017
Minor, Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, University of California, Davis, 2017

Email: abegzati@ucsd.edu

Arjana Begzati

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Metabolomics

Completed Degree(s):

B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2019

Dante Bolzan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Aaron Boussina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Email: lbruce@ucsd.edu

Lauryn Bruce

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-23 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Yuwei Cao

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Nicholas Chan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Eduardo Charvel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Den Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: dwc001@ucsd.edu

Daisy Chen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Elizabeth Winzeler Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Apurva Chitre

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Website

Email: mcuoco@ucsd.edu

Michael Cuoco

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Fred (Rusty) Gage , Eran Mukamel

Research Interests: Genomics approaches to understanding retrotransposon activity in the human brain

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Trinity College-Connecticut, 2017


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Jenny Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2022-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Weixiu Dong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: xid032@ucsd.edu

Xiaomi Du

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biology, Caltech, 2016


Special Funding/Awards:

2019-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Hyrum Eddington

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Vicente Fajardo Rosas

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Keegan Flanagan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: yif064@ucsd.edu

Yi Fu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Ruth Williams

Research Interests: Stochastic Processes, Epigenetics

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2016
B.S., Biology with specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2016

Lia Gale

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Lilian Gao

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Aidan Glina

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Website

Email: kpgodine@ucsd.edu

Karla P. Godinez-Macias

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Elizabeth Winzeler , Nathan E. Lewis Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computer Science, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2016
M.S., Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2019

Jean Gonzalez

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Website

Email: wgonzalezrivera@ucsd.edu

Wilfredo Gabriel Gonzalez Rivera

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Advisor(s): Melissa Gymrek , Kelly Frazer

Research Interests: Genetics, Genomics, Social Science and Determinants of Health in Predictive Models

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2022

B.S., Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2022


Special Funding/Awards:

2024-26 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM-T15) Training Grant Fellowship

2024-25 ABRCMS Leadership Development Academy Scholar 

2023-26 Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Fellowship Scholar

2023-25 STARS Graduate Advocate

2023-25 PATHS Graduate Advocate

2023-24 NextProfPathfinder Scholar and Mentor

2022-26 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Scholar and Mentor

2022-25 Competitive Edge Fellowship Scholar and Mentor

Cristian Gonzalez-Colin

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Website

Email: cguccion@ucsd.edu

Caitlin Guccione

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kit Curtius , Rob Knight

Research Interests: Cancer microbiome & mathematical modeling

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
B.A., Computer Science, University of Rhode Island
M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Rhode Island


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Website

Email: dhalmos@ucsd.edu

Daniel Halmos

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.A., Computer Science, Columbia University, 2021

Bhavya Harjai

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Website

Email: jhavens@ucsd.edu

Jennifer Havens

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Joel Wertheim

Research Interests: Virus evolution and phylogenetics, molecular epidemiology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2018

Website

Email: hsher@ucsd.edu

Hsuan-lin Her

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Gene Yeo

Research Interests: RNA-binding protein function

Completed Degree(s):

M.D., Taipei Medical University, 2019


Special Funding/Awards:

J Yang Foundation Fellowship

Fatemeh Heydari

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: lhinojosa@ucsd.edu

Laura Hinojosa

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Molly Huang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Ashley Hui

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Michael Iter

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: pjaganna@ucsd.edu

Pratibha Jagannatha

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Transcriptomics

Completed Degree(s):

B.S. Biomolecular Engineering


Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

ARCS Scholar

Email: ajambor@ucsd.edu

Alex Jambor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Physics, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017

Website

Email: jjauregu@ucsd.edu

Jeff Jaureguy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Graham McVicker , Alon Goren

Research Interests: Predicting the effects of genetic variants on chromatin accessibility with a deep learning approach

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biology, California State University San Marcos, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

2020-24 Sloan Fellowship

2021-23 STARs Fellow

2023-25 Human Genetics Scholar Award from the American Society of Human Genetics

2024-27 NIH F31 NRSA

Brian Johnson

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Adam Jussila

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Azhar Khandekar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2016


Special Funding/Awards:

National Cancer Institute's Cancer Research Training Award

Jonathan Kirkland

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Amit Klein

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: aklie@ucsd.edu

Adam Klie

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2017


Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Emily Kobayashi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019


Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Zane Koch

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Eric Kofman

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2019-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jonathan Lam

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-23 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

David Laub

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-24 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Email: kol004@ucsd.edu

Ko-Han Lee

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Research Interests: Cancer immunology

Completed Degree(s):

M.D., National Taiwan University, 2019

Email: h9ma@ucsd.edu

Harrison Ma

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: single cell genomics, spatial transcriptomics, gene regulation

Completed Degree(s):

B.S. Mathematics and Computer Science, UC San Diego, 2022
B.S. Cognitive Science w/ Spec in ML and Neural Comp, UC San Diego, 2022

Behrooz Mamandipoor

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Email: amassara@ucsd.edu

Arya Massarat

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Fine-mapping, Reproducibility

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Mathematical and Computational Biology, Harvey Mudd College, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Email: damelendez@ucsd.edu

Daira Melendez

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.A., Double Major: Biology, Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2015
M.P.H, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington - Seattle, 2019


Special Funding/Awards:

Sloan Scholar Fellowship

Website

Email: domeyer@ucsd.edu

Douglas Meyer

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter , Ludmil Alexandrov Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA, 2017

Email: amonell@ucsd.edu

Alex Monell

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Ananda Goldrath , Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Immunology, spatial transcriptomics, AI

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2022

Email: hmummey@ucsd.edu

Hannah Mummey

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kyle Gaulton Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biochemistry, Wellesley College, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Deepti Murthy

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Jacklyn Newsome

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: rpadrosivalls@ucsd.edu

Raimon Padrós I Valls

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Kevin King

Eunjae Park

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Lucas Patel

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Daniela Perry

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Statistics, Cornell University


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Timothy Pham

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2020-21 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Email: mpittigher@ucsd.edu

Madeleine Pittigher

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computational Biology, Brown University, 2024


Special Funding/Awards:

2024-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: avpong@ucsd.edu

Avery Pong

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Nathan E. Lewis , Gene Yeo

Research Interests: Spatial transcriptomics, cell-cell interaction inference, isoform-resolution differential expression

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2019


Special Funding/Awards:

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: anqi@ucsd.edu

Anna Qi

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Andrew McCulloch Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biology: Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego, 2022


Special Funding/Awards:

2022-24 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: geqian@ucsd.edu

Gege Qian

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Applied Math, University of California San Diego, 2019
M.S., Immunology, Harvard Medical School, 2021

Email: joreyna@ucsd.edu

Joaquin Reyna

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

Bioengineering: Bioinformatics Bsc


Special Funding/Awards:

2018-20 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: msacks@ucsd.edu

Molly Sacks

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Jonathan Sebat Completed Degree(s):

B.A., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2022

Daniela Salgado Figueroa

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Ali Sapci

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Varshini Sathish

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Website

Email: tsears@ucsd.edu

Timothy Sears

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Hannah Carter

Research Interests: Cancer immunotherapy response prediction

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Santa Barbara, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Website

Email: samshen@ucsd.edu

Sam Shen

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Wei Wang Completed Degree(s):

B.ASc., Biomedical Engineering (Bioinformatics Track), University of British Columbia, 2021

Email: ssoltani@ucsd.edu

Severine Soltani

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Benjamin Smarr Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in Machine Learning and Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, 2020
Minor, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-23 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: kspaulding@ucsd.edu

Kiki Spaulding

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Anjali Srinivasan

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


Special Funding/Awards:

2023-25 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

James Talwar

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Juan Tibocha Bonilla

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: fvasquezcastro@ucsd.edu

Felipe Vasquez Castro

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Cell signaling, post-translational modifications (PTMs), phosphorylation, protein mass spectrometry

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Chemistry, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020

Website

Email: dtv004@ucsd.edu

Daniella Vo

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2020


Special Funding/Awards:

2021-22 Trainee on NIH Training Grant in Bioinformatics

Email: yvoskoboynik@ucsd.edu

Yotam Voskoboynik

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz

Email: zwallace@ucsd.edu

Zach Wallace

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Applied Mathematics, Tufts University, 2018
M.A.S. Data Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2023

Peter Wang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: jaw047@ucsd.edu

Jade Wang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Research Interests: Infectious diseases

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Nutrition and Dietetics, New York University, 2011
M.S., Bioinformatics, New York University, 2017

Sherlyn Weng

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Website

Email: snwright@ucsd.edu

Sarah Wright

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Trey Ideker

Research Interests: Network genetics

Completed Degree(s):

M.Eng. Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
B.S. Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

Banghua Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Ziqi Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Heng Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Tianyao Xu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Alon Goren , Christopher Benner Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, 2021
B.S., Mathematics (Applied), University of California, San Diego, 2021

Kuan-Hung Yeh

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: yuy060@ucsd.edu

Grace Yu

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with a Specialization in Biomedical Informatics

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2021


Special Funding/Awards:

2022-25 Trainee on National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Grant Fellowship Program

Haoran Zhang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Email: wez073@ucsd.edu

Wenshu Zhang

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Computational and Systems Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 2023

Email: haz115@ucsd.edu

Haowen Zhou

Program: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Advisor(s): Neil Chi Completed Degree(s):

B.S., Biological Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021

M.S., Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University, 2023