Hasan Alkhairo

Virginia Commonwealth University
MS, Bioinformatics
BS, Bioinformatics

PI: Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, Neil Risch

Laura Almonte

Other
BS, Genomic Sciences

PI: Marina Sirota, Gabriela Fragiadakis

Sebastián Cruz-González

University Of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
BS, Molecular and Cell Biology

PI: Tony Capra

Research summary: The Influence of Admixture on Biological Aging in the Context of Alzheimer’s Disease

Outreach activities:
Guest Participant on the Stanford University JUST Health Podcast (2024)
UCSF Summer Research Training Program 2024 Student Advisor
NSF GRFP BMI Writing Workshop Teaching Assistant (2023)
UCSF BMI Representative at ABRCMS 2022

Shiron Drusinsky

University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Neuroscience

PI: Katie Pollard

Research summary: Machine Learning to Decode DNA Sequence Effects on Gene Expression

Ryder Easterlin

Northwestern University
BA, Biological Sciences

PI: Nadav Ahituv

Amanda Everitt

University of California, Davis
BS, Biotechnology

PI: Katie Pollard

Grant Goldman

Brown University
BA, Applied Math; Economics

PI: Vasilis Ntranos

Research summary: Applications of protein language models to human genetics

Tianna Grant

St. Francis College
BS, Biology

PI: Jimmie Ye

Research summary: Elucidate the contributions of Aire and MHCII on TCR repertoire selection of CD4+ T cells

Miguel Guardado

he/him/his

San Francisco State University
BS, Applied Mathematics

PI: Ryan Hernandez, Dara Torgerson

Research summary: Examining genomic technology disparities in underrepresented groups, focusing on untargeted metabolomics for premature infant respiratory diseases, heritability analysis in diverse populations, and addressing misidentification in forensics technologies based on genetic ancestry.

Umair Khan

Portland State University
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics (double)

PI: Michael Keiser, Marina Sirota

Chang Kim

University of California, Santa Cruz
BS, Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

PI: Tomasz Nowakowski

Carolyn Ku

she/her

Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Computational Biology

PI: Steven Altschuler

Research summary: understanding chronic hypoxia adaptation during fetal development

Alex Lee

Vassar College
BA, Biology

PI: Reza Abbasi-Asl

Research summary: Machine learning tool development for computational biology and clinical neuroscience

Thomas Mazumder

Johns Hopkins University
BS, Molecular & Cellular Biology

PI: Jimmie Ye

Haleigh Miller

University of California, Davis
BS, Math and Scientific Computation

PI: Joseph DeRisi

Silvia Miramontes

University of California, Berkeley
MS, Information and Data Science
BA, Applied Mathematics

PI: Marina Sirota, Maria Glymour

Grace Ramey

University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Computational and Systems Biology, Neuroscience

PI: Tony Capra

Lee Rao

University of Texas-Austin
BS, Computer Science

PI: Steven Altschuler, Lani Wu

Research summary: Detecting interactions from combinatorial screens with high-dimensional phenotypes

Outreach activities: AI4ALL

Maurisa Saylor

she/her/hers

Principia College, Hampshire College
BA, BA, Biology, Biology

PI: Catherine Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha

Research summary: Applying machine learning on cardiac MRI to identify cross-sectional structural variations

Maggie Tsui

she/her

University of California, San Diego
BS, Molecular Biology

PI: Jingjing Li, Franklin Huang

Research summary: Leveraging allele-specific expression (ASE) for cancer driver identification in prostate cancer and cancer disparities

Jacqueline Williams

she/her

Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
MS, Human Genetics and Genomic Data Analytics
University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Human Biology and Society

PI: Jill Hollenbach

Research summary: Characterizing natural killer cell receptor variation in the context of multiple sclerosis (MS)

Aidan Winters

He/him/his

University of Richmond
BS, Biology, Computer Science

PI: Luke Gilbert, Hani Goodarzi

Ashir Borah

Dickinson College
BS, Mathematics and Computer Science

PI: Luke Gilbert

Han Chen

University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Bioengineering

PI: Karin Pelka, Christina Theodoris

Yaen Chen

Northeastern University
BS, Behavioural Neuroscience

PI: Tony Capra

Bryson Choy

University of Southern California
MS, Quantitative and Computational Biology
BS, Quantitative Biology

PI: Jimmie Ye

Claire Dubin

University of California, Berkeley
BS, Microbial Biology (BS); Data Science (BA)

PI: Marina Sirota

Cindy Pino

University of California, Berkeley
BAS, Molecular Environmental Biology

PI: Katie Pollard

Shu Zhang

Cornell University
BA, Biological Sciences

PI: Katie Pollard

Prathamesh Chati

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
BA, Chemistry (Biochemistry) & Computer Science

PI: Vasilis Ntranos

Wanjun Gu

UC SAN DIEGO
B.S. Chemical Engineering & B.A. Economics

PI: Sergio Baranzini

Beniamin Krupkin

ISRAEL
MS, Genetics
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
BSC, Biology

PI: Nadav Ahituv

Siddharth Mahesh

UNIV PITTSBURGH
BS, Computational Biology & Computer Science

PI: David Quigley

Ashvin Ravi

UC BERKELEY
BA, Developmental Genetics

PI: Tony Capra

Sara Smith

UC BERKELEY
BS, Bioengineering

PI: Gabriela Fragiadakis

Yujie (York) Zhang

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MS, Computational Biology & Quantitative Genetics
UC SAN DIEGO
BS, Bioengineering: bioinformatics

PI: Christina Theodoris

Sarah Ancheta

University of California: Berkeley
BA, Data Science and Music

PI: Martin Kampmann, Christina Theodoris

Noah Baker

UC Berkeley
MPH, Epi & Biostats
University of Washington
BS, Biochemistry

PI: Madhumita Sushil

Isobel Beasley

University Of Melbourne
MS, BioSciences

PI: Ryan Hernandez, Dara Torgerson

Zoe Chen

Northwestern University
MS, Biostatistics

PI: Yin Shen

William Johnson

California Polytechnic State University: San Luis Obispo
BS, Biological Sciences

PI: David Quigley

Ipsa Mittra

University of Maryland: College Park
BS, Computer Science

PI: Jill Hollenbach

Ally Nicolella

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Sanjay Rangavajjhala

University of California: Berkeley
BA, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Computer Science

PI: Gabriela Fragiadakis

Rashad Reid

Temple University
BS, Biology

Valeria Sanchez Estrada

St. John's University
MS, Computational Biology and Biostatistics
BS, Biology

Vishvak Subramanyam

University of California: Los Angeles
BS, Computational and Systems Biology/ Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

PI: Hani Goodarzi

John Matthew Suntay

San Francisco State University
BS, Biology (Cell and Molecular Biology)

PI: Jessica DeLeon, Lorenzo Pasquini

Chris Thompson

Harvey Mudd College
BS, Computer Science

PI: Andrew Yang, Hani Goodarzi

Runa Cheng

UCSF MSTP In Progress

Swarthmore College
BA, Biology; Minor in Chemistry and Statistics

PI: Andrew Yang

Carlos Gomez

San Francisco State University
B.S., Microbiology

Alexander Ho

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS, Computer Science
Rice University
BS, Statistics

Sara Lichtarge

Washington University, St. Louis
B.S., Computer Science, Biology (Concentration in Computational Biology & Genomics)

Enock Niyonkuru

Trinity College
BSC, Computer Science

Faye Orcales

San Francisco State University
BS, Cell and Molecular Biology

Akshita Saxena

University of California, Los Angeles
BS, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

Ethan Shurberg

Brandeis University
BS, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science

Rayo Suseno

University of California, Los Angeles
MS, Bioengineering
BS, Bioengineering

Izabella Zamora

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ME, Electrical Engineering
BS, Electrical Engineering