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
- Yezhou Huang (CS)
- Kaixuan (Kevin) Luo (CBB)
- Michael Mayhew (CBB)
- Jianling Zhong (CBB)
Committees
- Jason Belsky (CBB, Dave MacAlpine)
- Peng Dong (CBB, Bernard Mathey-Prevot and Lingchong You)
- Pablo Gainza-Cirauqui (CS, Bruce Donald)
- Bochong Li (BME, Lingchong You)
- Jeff Martin (CS, Bruce Donald)
- Gürkan Yardımcı (CBB, Greg Crawford and Uwe Ohler)
- Jenny Zhang (Genetics, Sandeep Dave)
Research Initiation Project Committees
- Jonathan (JJ) Jou (CS, Bruce Donald)
- Branka Lakic (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
- Tianqi Song (CS, John Reif)
Rotations
- Shiwen Zhao (CBB)
Undergraduate
Supervising
- Brian Bullins (Math/CS)
- Mike Gloudemans (CS/Biology)
Former Students
Postdoctoral
Supervising
- Dr. Fantine Mordelet (CS)
[started a postdoc with Barbara Engelhardt at Duke] - Dr. Victoria Anne Smith
(Neurobiology), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis
[joined the faculty at University of St. Andrews, Scotland]
Doctoral
Supervising
- Allister Bernard (CS)
[joined AlphaSimplex Group, a hedge fund] - Raluca Gordân (CS)
[started a postdoc with Martha Bulyk at Harvard Medical School/MIT;
later joined the faculty at Duke] - Xin Guo (CS)
[joined Gilead Sciences] - Balaji Krishnapuram (ECE), co-supervised with Larry Carin
[joined Siemens Medical Solutions] - Philippe Lüdi (CBB), co-supervised with Fred Dietrich and Randy Jirtle
[joined AlphaSimplex Group, a hedge fund] - Leelavati Narlikar (CS)
[started a postdoc with Ivan Ovcharenko at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information);
later named a Ramanujan Fellow at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India] - David Orlando (CBB), co-supervised with Philip Benfey and Steve Haase
[started a postdoc with Rick Young at MIT/Whitehead Institute] - Andreas Pfenning (CBB), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis
[started a postdoc with Manolis Kellis at MIT/Broad Institute] - Josh Robinson (CS)
[joined Signal Innovations Group, a machine learning startup] - Todd Wasson (CBB)
[joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab] - Jing Yu (ECE), co-supervised with Erich Jarvis and Paul Wang
[joined Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research]
Committees
- Alan Boyle (CBB, Terry Furey and Greg Crawford)
[started a postdoc with Mike Snyder at Stanford] - Yanting Dong (ECE, Larry Carin)
[joined Guidant (acquired by Boston Scientific)] - Matt Eaton (CBB, David MacAlpine)
[started a postdoc with Manolis Kellis at MIT/Broad Institute] - Ashish Gehani (CS, Gershon Kedem)
[started a postdoc with Surendar Chandra at Notre Dame] - Ivelin Georgiev (CS, Bruce Donald)
[joined the NIH Vaccine Research Center as a research fellow] - Stoyan Georgiev (CBB, Uwe Ohler and Sayan Mukherjee)
[started a postdoc with Jonathan Pritchard at Chicago] - Jonathan Jesneck (BME, Joseph Lo)
[started a postdoc with Jill Mesirov and Todd Golub at Broad Institute;
later joined the Field Intelligence Lab at MIT as a Research Scientist] - Shihao Ji (ECE, Larry Carin)
[joined Yahoo!; later joined Microsoft] - Laura Kavanaugh (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
[joined Syngenta Biotechnology] - Mitch Levesque (Genetics, Philip Benfey)
[started a postdoc at 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?] - Dan Mace (CBB, Uwe Ohler)
[started a postdoc with Bob Waterston at University of Washington] - Nabil Mustafa (CS, Pankaj Agarwal)
[started a postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Informatics] - Johannes Norrell (Physics, Josh Socolar)
[joined a government agency] - Constantin Pistol (CS, Alvy Lebeck and Chris Dwyer)
[joined Apple] - Sudheer Sahu (CS, John Reif)
[joined Microsoft] - Nathan Sheffield (CBB, Greg Crawford and Terry Furey)
[started a postdoc with Christoph Bock at Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences] - Jason Stajich (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
[Miller Fellowship; started a postdoc with John Taylor at UC Berkeley;
later joined the faculty at UC Riverside] - Rui Wang (CBB, Erich Jarvis)
[joined Beijing Prosperous Biopharm as CEO and President] - Jennifer Weidman (Genetics, Randy Jirtle)
[started a postdoc with Randy Jirtle at Duke] - Ya Xue (ECE, Larry Carin)
[joined Centice, a sensor technology startup; later joined GE Global Research] - Peng Yin (CS, John Reif)
[Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation; started a postdoc with Niles Pierce and Erik Winfree at CalTech;
later joined the faculty at Harvard] - Jianyang (Michael) Zeng (CS, Bruce Donald)
[joined the faculty at Tsinghua University in China] - Zhihong (Joe) Zhang (Genetics, Fred Dietrich)
[started a postdoc with Stan Fields at University of Washington;
later joined Illumina]
Research Initiation Project Committees
- Alan Davidson (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
- Mark Fashing (CS, Carlo Tomasi)
- Abhijit Guria (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)
- Dina Hafez (CS, Uwe Ohler)
- Charles (Chip) Killian (CS, Amin Vahdat)
- Urmi Majumder (CS, John Reif)
- Mac Mason (CS, Ron Parr)
- Wenbin Pan (CS, Herbert Edelsbrunner)
Rotations
- Diana Fusco (CBB)
- Karthik Jayasurya (CBB)
- Samuel Ramirez (CBB)
- George Tretyakov (CBB)
Masters
Supervising
- Abrita Chakravarty (CS)
- Yasunori Hongo (CS)
[joined Bank of Japan] - Pallavi Pratapa (CS)
[Outstanding Master's Thesis; joined UBS Warburg; later joined Lenovo] - David Vaughn (CS)
[joined Modality, a software startup; later joined Measurement Incorporated]
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)
- Jie Xu (CS, Uwe Ohler)
Undergraduate
Supervising
- Alexandra (Tally) Balaban (Math)
[joined NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center);
later entered grad school in Biostatistics at UNC] - Kshipra Bhawalkar (Math/CS)
[entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford] - Jason Bosko (ECE/CS)
[joined SAS] - Scott Brothers (CS/Math)
[joined Microsoft] - 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; joined a biotech startup;
later entered grad school in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT] - Daphne Ezer (CS/Biology)
[Duke Faculty Scholar; Marshall Scholar; entered grad school in Genetics at Cambridge] - Eric Fountain (Math)
[entered grad school in Physics at Princeton] - Daniel Greenblatt (CS)
[entered grad school in Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech] - Kelvin Gu (post-baccalaureate), co-supervised with David Dunson
[entered grad school in Statistics at Stanford] - Paul Heymann (CS/Philosophy)
[Graduation with High Distinction; entered grad school in Computer Science at Stanford] - Boyoun (Sarah) Jung (CS/Biology)
[interned for the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea at Cheong Wa Dae ("Blue House");
later entered medical school at Dartmouth] - Charles Lin (Biology)
[entered grad school in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT] - Jonathan Mathew (CS)
[entered medical school at UNC] - Jimmy Mu (CS)
[joined Microsoft] - Nikhil Saxena (BME/ECE)
[joined Yelp] - Austin Weiss (Computational Biology)
[entered medical school at Yale] - Aaron Wise (ECE/CS)
[joined Google; later entered grad school in Computational Biology at CMU] - Derek Zhou (CS/Biology)
[joined Citigroup as a trader]
Committees
- Andrew Declercq (CS, Ron Parr)
[joined IBM] - 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]