People

Iuliana-Cristina Caescu

Executive Director, Research Operations

ic2520@cumc.columbia.edu

Rowan Cassius

Staff Associate I

rc3686@cumc.columbia.edu

Grace Chen

Executive Assistant

gc3118@cumc.columbia.edu

Yining Katherine Chen

Ph.D. Student

yc4346@columbia.edu

Leo Dupire

Staff Associate I

ld3154@cumc.columbia.edu

Melania Franchini

Staff Associate I

mf3649@cumc.columbia.edu

Adina Grunn

Lab Manager

ag41@cumc.columbia.edu

Zhongming “Lucas” Hu

Associate Research Scientist

zh2477@cumc.columbia.edu

Patrick Kerwin

Ph.D. Student

pmk2110@cumc.columbia.edu

Prabhjot Mundi

Assistant Professor of Medicine

psm2134@cumc.columbia.edu

Aleksandar Obradovic

Adj Associate Research Scientist, Dept of Med, Exp Therapeutics

azo2104@columbia.edu

Prem Subramaniam

Associate Research Scientist

ps2536@cumc.columbia.edu

Mikko Turunen

Assistant Professor

mt3326@cumc.columbia.edu

Alessandro Vasciaveo

Associate Research Scientist

av2729@cumc.columbia.edu

Gaetano Viscido

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

gv2351@cumc.columbia.edu

Alexander “Alec” Wang

Technician Assistant

aw3436@cumc.columbia.edu

Luca Zanella

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

lz2841@cumc.columbia.edu

Mingxuan Zhang

Ph.D. Student

mz2934@cumc.columbia.edu

Yuanqing “Bianca” Xue

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

yx2966@cumc.columbia.edu


Former Lab Members

Mahalaxmi Aburi
Executive Director, Research Enterprise, Atlantic Health System, New Jersey

Miquel Anglada Girotto 

PhD Student, CRG, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Alexandre Alloy
Senior Scientist, Computational Biology, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

Mariano Alvarez
Chief Scientific Officer, DarwinHealth Inc., New York, NY

Alberto Ambesi-Impiombato
Director, Computational Biology, PsychoGenics, Tarrytown, NY

Albert Antolin
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Data Science and Division of Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK

Chiara Antonini
PhD Candidate, University of Perugia, Italy

Nicola Balboni
PhD Candidate, University of Bologna, Italy

Nilanjana Banerjee
Associate Director, Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY

Pradeep Bandaru
Data Science Lead, GSK

Mukesh Bansal
Associate Director, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Kristin Beiswenger
Scientific Program Director, Harris Wang Lab, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Brygida Bisikirska
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Joshua Broyde
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Amazon Web Services

Ester Calvo Fernandez

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard Medical School 

Claudia Capdevila Castillo
PhD Student, Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

James Chi-Ping Chen
Principal Scientist, Computational Biology and Data Analytics, Repertoire Immune Medicines, Stamford, CT

Hua-Sheng Chiu
Assistant Professor, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Wei-Jen Chung
Senior Principal Scientist, Discovery Bioinformatics, Loxo Oncology at Lily, South San Francisco, CA

Jorida Çoku
Scientific Programs, Executive Office, American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA

Seema Dhindaw
Assistant Director, Radiology Research Operations, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY

Eugene F. Douglass, Jr.
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia

Hongxu Ding
Assistant Professor, Translational Pharmacogenomics, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona

Federico M. Giorgi, federico.giorgi@unibo.it
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Xinzheng “Victor” Guo
TBA

Elizabeth (Evans) Hagan
MD/MS Student, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

Jing He
Staff Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY

Archana Iyer
Principal Research Scientist II, Computational Immunology, Rheumatology Lead, AbbVie, New Rochelle, NY

InSock Jang
Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, San Diego, CA

Sunny Jones
Scientist I, Computational Team, Kallyope, New York, NY

Jordan Kesner
PhD Student, Xuebing Wu Laboratory, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Hesed Kim
Software Development Manager, AmazonFresh & Prime Now, Seattle, WA

Hyunjae Ryan Kim
Senior Research Scientist II, Bioinformatics, Gilead, Foster City, CA

Elena Komissarova
Senior Research Scientist, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Alexander Lachmann
Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Pharmacological Sciences, Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Pasquale Laise
Director of Single-Cell Systems Biology, Senior Scientist in Computational and Experimental Biology, DarwinHealth Inc., New York, NY

Celine Lefebvre
Head, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Servier, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France

Wei-Keat Lim
Associate Director, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY

Gonzalo Lopez
Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, Summit, NJ

Kartik Mani
Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Informatics, SUNY Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook, NY

Adam Margolin
Venture Partner, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Park, CA, and Chief Executive Officer, NextVivo, Palo Alto, CA

Antonina Mitrofanova
Associate Professor, Director of Biomedical Informatics Research, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Jose Morales
Instructor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Ajay Nair

Senior Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215

Ilya Nemenman
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Alana Nguyen
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hem & Onc, Weill Cornell College of Medicine New York, NY

Paola Nicoletti
Clinical Pharmacologist, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Heeju Noh

Carole Elisson Fellow in the Hood-Price Lab, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA

Evan Paull
Principal Scientist, Schrodinger, New York, NY

Presha Rajbhandari
Associate Research Scientist, Stockwell Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY

Forest Ray
Science Writer, Genome Web, Long Beach, CA

Gabrielle Rieckhof
Trauma Counselor, Baruch College Counseling Center, New York, NY

Maria Rodriguez-Martinez
Research Staff Member, IBM, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

George Rosenberger
Senior Scientist, Computational Proteogenomics, Flagship Pioneering, Cambridge, MA

Subrata Saha
Principal Scientist, Pfizer, Pearl River, NY

Abu Ali Ibn Sina

NHMRC Fellow , Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia

Beatrice Salvatori
Project Manager, Next Generation Diagnostics srl, Pozzuoli, Campania, Italy

Yao Shen
Director of Systems Pharmacology, Senior Data Scientist, DarwinHealth Inc., New York, NY

Yishai Shimoni
Manager, Machine Learning for Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM, Haifa Research Laboratories, Haifa, Israel

William Shin
Software Engineer, Superconductive, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Pavel Sumazin
Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Member, Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center; Member, Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Ruping Sun
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Somnath Tagore
Associate Research Scientist, Dept of Medicine, Hem & Onc, Columbia University, New York, NY

Xiangtian “Shawn” Tan
Hillhouse Capital

Lorenzo Tomassoni

Senior Scientist, DarwinHealth Inc., New York, NY

Lukas Vlahos
Life Sciences Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting, New York, NY

Kelly Wong
Medical Student, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

Junqiang Wang
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Yi-Rong Peng Lab, Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Kai Wang
Senior Director of Predictive Sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, San Diego, CA

Jung-Hoon Woo
H&A Data Platform Lead/Functional Fellow, LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea

Jeremy Worley
Assistant Professor of Systems Biology at Columbia University

Xuerui Yang
Associate Professor (Principal Investigator), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Jiyang Yu
Associate Member, Computational Biology Dept, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Zhou, Sean Xiang
Vice President, Data Science and Product Development, Sema4, Stamford, CT