Durand Lab


    Personnel
 
   
   

Lab Members

    Dannie Durand

    Yu-Hsiang Chen

    Jules Padro

    Maureen Stolzer

    Yuting Xiao

    Tanjeem Zaman


    Lab Alumni


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Dannie Durand
Lab Head

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Yu-Hsiang Chen
Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology
Project: Multidomain Protein Architectures

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Jules Padro
Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences
Project topic: Highly Iterated Palindrome 1 in Cyanobacteria

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Maureen Stolzer
Research Scientist, Biological Sciences
Multidomain protein evolution and phylogenetic reconciliation

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Yuting Xiao
Research Associate
Project topic: Evolution of Genomic Domain Content revealed by a Birth-Death-Gain Model

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Tanjeem Zaman
Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology
Project topic: Population phylogenomics

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    Lab alumni


 

Rosie Alderson, PhD.,   Postdoctoral fellow, science communication
      Currently: Communicating science to the public in the UK.

Jayse Cardinal-Takhiné,   Masters program in Computational Biology
      Currently: Board of Directors, Metis Federation of Canada, Austin Powwow.

Kevin Chen, PhD.   Undergraduate researcher, Princeton University.
      Currently: Associate professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University

Ravi Chinoy   Research intern: Master's program in Information Systems Management
      Currently: Software Engineer, MdotM

Xiaoyue Cui, PhD. Doctoral program, Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology.
      Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, Bromberg lab, Emory University

Dave Danicic,   Summer intern: Masters of Arts in Professional Writing

Charlotte Darby, PhD,   BS, MS programs in Computational Biology
      Most recent degree Phd, Computer Science Johns Hopkins .
      Currently: Research scientist, Takeda Oncology

Philip Davidson, PhD.   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Designing a better flu vaccine at Sanofi Pasteur

George Davis, PhD.  Research programmer.
      Most recent degree: Phd Program in Computation, Organizations and Society
      Currently: CEO and founder, FrameAI

Alejandro Garces,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: Masters in Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University
      Currently: PhD Program in Computational Biology,Cornell University

Ganesh Ghosh,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: Undergraduate program in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
      Currently: Senior Software Engineer, AMEX

Aiton Goldman,   Research programmer

Rose Hoberman, PhD.   Doctoral program, Computer Science Department.
      Currently: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbruecken.

Jacob Joseph, PhD. Doctoral program, Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology.
      Currently: Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Pittsburgh.

Leon Kim,   Undergraduate researcher
      Currently: Data scientist, Education Advisory Board

Woody March-Steinman,   Summer intern.
      Currently: Doctoral program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona

Collin McCormick,   Masters program in Computational Biology
      Currently: ML engineer, logistics industry

Tamar Melman, PhD.   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: Phd in Computational Biology and Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
      Currently: Data Scientist at ClimaCell

Han Lai, PhD.   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Google, Pittsburgh, PA.

Arpita Nag,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: BS in Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon
      Currently: Software Engineer, Eightfold.ai

Priyanka Nandakumar,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: Phd, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2017.
      Currently: Scientist-Statistical Genetics, 23andMe

Narayanan Raghupathy, PhD.   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.
      Currently: Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Patrick Ropp   Masters program in Computational Biology
      Currently: Blood-based early cancer detection at Freenome

Deepa Sathaye,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: MS in Financial Engineering, U. Illinois
     Currently: Engineering cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology AIRSWAP

Marc Schaub, PhD.,   Undergraduate researcher
      Most recent degree: PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University
      Currently: Google, Mountain View, CA

Robbie Sedgewick, PhD.   Postdoc: Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Founder and Engineering VP, BrdgAI, Pittsburgh, PA

Katie Siewert-Rocks, PhD.   Undergraduate program in Computational Biology.
      Most recent degree: PhD Genomics and Computational Biology, U. Penn.
      Currently: Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Nan Song, PhD.   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Principal Statistician, ZOLL Medical Corporation

Ryan Topping, PhD.   Visiting doctoral student, Imperial College London
      Most recent degree: PhD, Bioinformatis, Imperial College, London.
      Currently: Head, Data Science and Machine Learning, Clari

Benjamin Vernot, PhD.   Research programmer, BS in Computer Science CMU.  
      Most recent degree: PhD in Genome Sciences, University of Washington  
      Currently: Research staff, Evolutionary Genetics Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Minli Xu, PhD. Doctoral program, Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology.
      Currently: Head of Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Arts

Yifan Xue,   Masters program in Computational Biology
      Most recent degree: PhD in Department of Biomedical Informatics U. Pitt
      Currently: Machine Learning Engineer, Linked In



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