People
Dr. Tim O'Connor, PhD
Associate Professor at the Institute for Genome Sciences, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Victor Borda, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2020-present.
Interested in Human population genomics and history.
Douglas Loesch (PhD Candidate ) 2018 – present.
Interested in the application of machine learning to multi-omic data in order to make inferences regarding disease risk, disease-related biological pathways, and demographic history. In addition, interested in the genetic epidemiology of complex diseases in diverse human populations.
Jennifer French (PhD Candidate ) 2019 – present.
Interested in studying how ancestry influences risk for complex diseases, especially in diverse populations.
Dr. Bing Guo, MD (PhD Candidate ) 2020 – present.
Interested in genomics and population genetics related to human diseases especially malaria.
Diego Veliz, MS (PhD Candidate) 2020-present
Interested in population and quantitative genetics.
Dr. Sunday Ikpe, MBBS (PhD Candidate) 2020-present
Interested in deep learning of the epidemiology of HIV in Africa.
Cullen Ross (PhD Candidate) 2020-present
Interested in cancer genetics.
Roland Laboulaye, MS (Bioinformatics Engineer) 2020-present
Interested in deep generative models and representation learning.
Firékunmi Ojo (Undergraduate researcher, UMBC, Meyerhoff Scholar) 2020-present
Interested in deep learning, machine learning, and brain computer interfaces.
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Alumni
Wei Song PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2014 – 2016.
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Ivan Ovcharenko at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health.
Amy Stonelake PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow) 2014 – 2015.
Currently a Bioinformatics Analyst at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Michael Kessler (PhD Student) 2015 – 2019 .
Interested in the use of genomics and populations genetics to better understand human disease, and specifically cancer diagnosis and treatment. Also interested in better understanding of how differences in genetic background between human populations influence disease incidence rates and biology.
Daniel Harris (PhD Student) 2014 – 2019
Interested in studying human demographic history, particularly population founding events and migration.
Amol Shetty (PhD Student) 2014 – 2019
Interests in software development and project management specializing in next-gen sequencing analysis (including transcriptomics, small ncRNA, exome, genome wide association and SNP analysis).
Abraham Fetin (Undergraduate in Anthropology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) 2018 – 2019.