Students

This page lists students with whom I work currently or with whom I have worked formerly. I have listed each student only once; in those cases where I have worked with a student in multiple capacities, only the most recent is listed.

Current Students

Doctoral

Supervising

• Abrita Chakravarty (CS)
• Raluca Gordân (CS)
• Xin Guo (CS)
• David Orlando, co-supervised with Philip Benfey and Steve Haase (CBB)
• Josh Robinson (CS)
• Todd Wasson (CBB)

Committees

• Alan Boyle (CBB, Terry Furey and Greg Crawford)
• Matt Eaton (CBB, David MacAlpine)
• Ivelin Georgiev (CS, Bruce Donald)
• Stoyan Georgiev (CBB, Uwe Ohler and Sayan Mukherjee)
• Dan Mace (CBB, Uwe Ohler)
• Johannes Norrell (Physics, Josh Socolar)
• Andreas Pfenning (CBB, Erich Jarvis)
• Constantin Pistol (CS, Alvy Lebeck and Chris Dwyer)
• Rui Wang (CBB, Erich Jarvis)

Undergraduate

Supervising

• Boyoun (Sarah) Jung (CS/Biology)
• Jonathan Mathew (CS)

Former Students

Postdoctoral

Supervising

• Dr. Victoria Anne Smith, co-supervised with Erich Jarvis (Neurobiology)
  [joined the faculty at University of St. Andrews, Scotland]

Doctoral

Supervising

• Allister Bernard (CS)
  [joined AlphaSimplex Group, a hedge fund]
• Balaji Krishnapuram, co-supervised with Larry Carin (ECE)
  [joined Siemens Medical Solutions]
• Philippe Lüdi, co-supervised with Fred Dietrich and Randy Jirtle (CBB)
  [joined AlphaSimplex Group, a hedge fund]
• Leelavati Narlikar (CS)
  [started a postdoc with Ivan Ovcharenko at NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information]
• Jing Yu, co-supervised with Erich Jarvis and Paul Wang (ECE)
  [joined Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research]

Committees

• Yanting Dong (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Guidant (now Boston Scientific)]
• Ashish Gehani (CS, Gershon Kedem)
  [started a postdoc with Surendar Chandra at Notre Dame]
• Jonathan Jesneck (BME, Joseph Lo)
  [started a postdoc with Jill Mesirov and Todd Golub at the Broad Institute]
• Shihao Ji (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [started a postdoc with Larry Carin at Duke]
• Laura Kavanaugh (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
  [started a postdoc with Greg Crawford and Terry Furey at Duke]
• Mitch Levesque (Genetics, Philip Benfey)
  [started a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology]
• Qiuhua Liu (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [started a postdoc at Schlumberger-Doll Research]
• Jiuliu Lu (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Beckman Coulter, maybe?]
• Nabil Mustafa (CS, Pankaj Agarwal)
  [started a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics]
• Sudheer Sahu (CS, John Reif)
  [joined Microsoft]
• Jason Stajich (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
  [Miller Fellowship, started a postdoc with John Taylor at UC Berkeley]
• Jennifer Weidman (Genetics, Randy Jirtle)
  [started a postdoc with Randy Jirtle at Duke]
• Ya Xue (ECE, Larry Carin)
  [joined Centice, a sensor technology startup]
• Peng Yin (CS, John Reif)
  [Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, started a postdoc with Niles Pierce and Erik Winfree at CalTech]
• Zhihong Zhang (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
  [started a postdoc with Stan Fields at University of Washington]

Research Initiation Project Committees

• Mark Fashing (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Abhijit Guria (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)
• Charles (Chip) Killian (CS, Amin Vahdat)
• Urmi Majumder (CS, John Reif)
• Mac Mason (CS, Ron Parr)
• Wenbin Pan (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)
• David Vaughn (CS)

Rotations

• Karthik Jayasurya (CBB)

Masters

Supervising

• Pallavi Pratapa
  [Outstanding Master's Thesis, joined UBS Warburg]

Committees

• Avik Bhattacharya (CS, Terry Furey)
• Anaghe Gupta (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Kuan-ming Lin (CS, Larry Carin)
• Arvind Sastry (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
• Paul Shealy (CS, Carlo Tomasi)

Undergraduate

Supervising

• Alexandra (Tally) Balaban (Math)
• Kshipra Bhawalkar (Math/CS)
  [entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford]
• Jason Bosko (ECE/CS)
  [joined SAS]
• Jer-Yee (John) Chuang (ECE/CS)
  [Graduation with High Distinction, entered grad school in Bioinformatics at UCSF]
• Matt Edwards (CS/Math)
  [Graduation with High Distinction, Alex Vasilos Award]
• Eric Fountain (Math)
  [entered grad school in Physics at Princeton]
• Daniel Greenblatt (CS)
  [entered grad school in Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech]
• Paul Heymann (CS/Philosophy)
  [Graduation with High Distinction, entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford]
• Charles Lin (Biology)
  [entered grad school in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT]
• Aaron Wise (ECE/CS)
  [joined Google]

Committees

• Andrew Declercq (CS, Ron Parr)
• Patrick Paczkowski (CS, Terry Furey)
  [Graduation with Distinction, entered grad school in Computer Science at Yale]
• Katherine (Beth) Trushkowsky (CS, Jeff Forbes)
  [Graduation with High Distinction, entered grad school in Computer Science at UC Berkeley]