Landau Lab
Cancer Genomics & Evolutionary Dynamics at WCM/NYGC
We are located at the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine (part of the tri-institutional program) and the New York Genome Center.
Dan Landau, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Core Member, New York Genome Center
Graduate program memberships:
Weill Cornell Graduate School | Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology​
Tri-Institutional PhD Program | Computational Biology & Medicine
Training and Experience
MD, Tel Aviv University, 1995 - 2002
PhD, Paris Diderot University, 2010 - 2013
Internal Medicine residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, 2007 - 2009
Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship, Yale Cancer Center, 2009 - 2014
Post Doctoral training, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2011 - 2014
Instructor of Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute, 2014 - 2015
Joshua Schiffman, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
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B.S Evolution, Ecology & Biodiversity, University of California, Davis, CA, 2010
PhD Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, CA, 2018
Husain Danish, MD
MSKCC Neuro-oncology fellow; Post doctoral research fellow
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B.A Chemistry and Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2011
MD Harvard Medical School, MA, 2016
Residency in Neurology, Mass General Brigham Neurology Residency Program
Mariela Cortes Lopez, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow​
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B.Sc, Genomics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2016
PhD, Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2022
Jane Park, B.S
Lab manager​
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B.S Environmental Systems, University of California, San Diego, 2014.
Ramya Raviram, PhD
Post doctoral fellow
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B.S, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics (minor), Rutgers University, 2009
PhD, Computational Biology (Skok and Bonneau labs), New York University, 2017
Post Doctoral fellow (Ren lab), Ruth L Kirschtein T32 fellow, University of California San Diego, 2017-2020
Tamara Prieto, PhD
Post doctoral fellow
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B.Sc Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2013
M.Sc Bioinformatics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, 2014
PhD Methodology and Applications in Life Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain, 2020
Saravanan Ganesan, PhD
Post doctoral fellow
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B.Sc, Microbiology, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, India, 2007
PhD, Biomedical Sciences (CSIR fellow, Raman-Charpak fellow), Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, 2018
Postdoctoral fellow, (Fellow of Fondation de France) Inserm U1131, IRSL, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris France (2019-2020)
Dennis Yuan, PhD
Post doctoral fellow
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B.Sc. Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2017
PhD. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2021
Andrew D'Avino, M.S
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.S Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2016
Levan Mekerishvili, B.A
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
B.A Molecular Biology, Colgate University, NY, 2020
Srinivas (Sri) Rajagopalan, B.A
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
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B.A Bio-Mathematics and Statistics (minor), Rutgers University, NJ, 2020
Xiaoli Mi, MD
Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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B.A Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, MA
MD Harvard Medical School, MA 2018
Internal Medicine Residency, New York Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell, NY, 2021
Wei-Yu Chi, MD
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
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MD National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2018
Theo Botella, M.S
Bioinformatics analyst
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M.S Computer Science, ESILV, Paris, France, 2020
Data analyst, Single-cell Genomics (Yan lab), Columbia University Medical Center, NY, (2020-2022)
John Zinno, M.S
Genomics Data Scientist / AI
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B.S. Chemistry and Biology, Physics minor, Florida Southern College, FL, 2016
M.S. Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, NY, 2017
M.S. Bioinformatics, New York University, NY, 2022
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Current Lab members:​
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Manu Singh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. Biomedical Science, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2011
PhD. Immunology, Australian National University, Australia, 2017
Elliot Eton, B.A
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program​
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B.A Chemical and Physical Biology, Harvard University, MA, 2019
Kai Beattie, B.S
Research Technician II​
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B.S Biochemistry; Northeastern University, MA, 2023
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Alyssa Indart, PhD
Scientist​
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B.A Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Columbia University, NY, 2014
PhD Immunology and Synthetic Biology (Bluestone and Roybal labs), University of California San Francisco, CA, 2023
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Nicholas Midler, M.S
Bioinformatics Analyst
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B.S. Political Science, Stanford University, CA, 2021
M.S. Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, CA, 2023
Joe Pelt, M.S
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
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B.S. Biology, Florida State University, FL, 2018
M.S. Neuroscience, University of Oxford, UK, 2019
Jake Qiu, B.S
PhD Student, Weill Cornell PBSB Program
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B.S. Biological Engineering, Purdue University, IN, 2018
Sangho Yoon, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. Dept. of Life Sciences, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2016
PhD. Bioinformatics, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2022
Post Doctoral Fellow, Hanyang Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Hanyang University, South Korea, 2023
Ramon Massoni-Badosa, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. Human Biology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2016
M.Sc. Biomedical Research, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2019
PhD. Biology, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2023
William Driscoll, B.S
Bioinformatics Associate
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B.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, CA, 2013
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Alejandro Garces, M.S
PhD Student, Cornell Computational Biology Program​
B.S Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, 2021
M.S Biotechnology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2023
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Sonika Reddy, MD
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow MSKCC/NYP-Weill Cornell
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B.S. Biology, MIT, MA, 2014
MD New York Medical College, NY, 2020
Pediatric Residency, NYP-Morgan Stanley CHONY/Columbia University Medical Center
Yiyun Lin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. Pharmacy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2015
M.Pharm. Pharmaceutical Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2018
PhD. Biomedical Science, GSBS of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2024
Evrim Goksel, B.Sc.
Visiting PhD Student
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B.Sc., Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
PhD Student, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Foteini (Fenia) Fotopoulou, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. General Biology, University of Patras, Greece, 2017
M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, specialization in Molecular Pharmacology, Biopharmaceutics and Biomolecular Analysis, University of Patras, Greece, 2020
PhD Biology, DKFZ International PhD Program & Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2024
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Jani Huuhtanen, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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MD University of Helsinki, 2021
PhD University of Helsinki, 2024
Clinical Hematology Residency, University of Helsinki Comprehensive Cancer Center
Qing Luo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.Sc. Biological Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, 2012
M.Sc. Life Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2019
PhD. Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024
Alumni
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Former Postdoctoral or Clinical Fellows:
Asaf Zviran, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2019), EMBO post doctoral fellowship awardee
Current: CEO, C2I Genomics
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B.Sc Physics and Electrical Engineering,Technion, Israel, 2003
M.Sc Operations Research, Technion, Israel, 2011
PhD Biology,Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2016
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Kyu-Tae Kim, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2019).
Current: Assistant Professor, Ajou University School of Medicine, Korea
PhD Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2015
Research fellow, Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, 2013 - 2017
Andrew Lipsky, MD
Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellow (2017-2020)
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University
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B.A Philosophy, Brown University, RI, 2007
MD Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ, 2013
Medicine Residency, Montefiore Medical Center, NY, 2016
Anna Nam, MD
Hematopathology fellow (2017-2020), BWF and DP5 awardee
Current: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine
B.Sc Chemistry, Davidson College, NC, 2009
MD University of Missouri, MO, 2014
Anatomic Pathology Residency, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, 2016
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Ronan Chaligne, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2020), LRF Innovation Award and Marie Curie EU fellowship recipient
Current: Head, Single Cell Research Initiative, Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center
B.Sc Cellular Biology and Physiology, Evry, France, 2004
PhD Oncology, with distinction, Institut Gustave Roussy, France, 2009
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Federico Gaiti, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2021)
Current: Assistant Professor, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, CA
B.Sc Biology,University of Bologna, Italy, 2009
M.Sc Marine Biology, University of Bologna, Italy & UC Santa Barbara, 2012
PhD Evolutionary Biology and Genomics, University of Queensland, Australia, 2016
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Allegra Hawkins, PhD
Post doctoral fellow (F99/K00) (2019-2021)
Current: Data Scientist at Childhood Cancer Data Lab, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
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BSc, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2014
M.Sc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
Ph.D University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2018
Franco Izzo, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2017-2023)
Current: Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
M.Sc Biological Science, Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 2010
PhD Biology, Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 2015
(Laboratory of Molecular Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis: Breast Cancer Res, 2014,
and Mol Endocrinol)
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Barun Pradhan, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
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B.tech, Biotechnology, Kathmandu University, Nepal, 2010
M.S, Molecular Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2015
PhD, Molecular Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2021
Alexandre Pellan Cheng, PhD
Post doctoral fellow (2020-2024)
Current: Associate Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Quebec
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B.Eng, Biomedical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 2016
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2021
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Nir Ben-Chetrit, PhD
Post Doctoral fellow (2016-2024)
Current: Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
B.Sc Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Israel, 2005
M.Sc Life Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2008
PhD Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2013
(Yarden Lab: Sci Signal, 2015a and Sci Signal, 2015b)
Research fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2013 - 2015
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Adam Widman, MD
Medical Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Current: Associate Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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B.S, Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, 2014
Internal Medicine Residency, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, 2017
​Former Graduate Students:
Robert Myers, B.Sc
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.Sc Biology, The College of New Jersey, NJ 2014
Neville Dusaj, M.S
MD-PhD Student, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
B.A, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2016
M.S, Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, PA 2016
Steve Niu, M.Sc
Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM Program
Current: Genentech
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B.S, Cell Biology, UC Davis, CA, 2015
M.S, Biology, NYU, NY, 2017
Nathaniel Omans, M.S
PhD student, Computational Biomedicine PhD Tri-I program
B.S Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2014
M.S Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2015
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​Former lab members:
Kristofer Patel, B.Sc
Liquid biopsy specialist (2018-2019)
Current: C2I Genomics
B.Sc Biochemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2016
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Rafael Schulman, B.Sc
Bioinformatics Associate (2016-2019)
Current: C2I Genomics
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B.Sc. Integrative Neuroscience, Binghamton University (SUNY), New York, 2016
B.A. Evolutionary Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), New York, 2016
Sunil D. Deochand, M.S
Analyst (2017-2019; 2023-2024)
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B.S. Mathematics, Stony Brook University, NY, 2016
M.S. Biology- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, NYU, NY, 2018
Patrick Bolan, M.D
M.D. student (2017-2020)
Current: Stanford IM residency
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B.S. Biology, Boston College, MA, 2011
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Chelston Ang, M.Eng
Lab manager (2018-2020).
Current: MD/PhD student, University of North Carolina
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B.S. Biological Engineering, Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, NY, 2016
M.Eng Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, NY, 2017
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Gavriel Mullokandov, MD, PhD
Pathology, Physician Scientist Training Program, Weill Cornell Medicine (2018-2020). Current: GhostTree ventures
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BA, Biochemistry, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 2007
Research Fellow, Tawfik Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2007-2008
MD/PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY 2017
Rekha Murali, B.S
Graduate Student, Tri-I CBM program (2018-2020)
Current: Recombia Biosciences
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BS, Biology, Ohio State University, OH 2014
Cole Khamnei, B.S
Data Analyst / AI (2019-2021)
Current: Columbia University, MD/PhD student
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B.S. Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2019
Nathaniel Omans, M.S
Lab manager (2016-2017)
Current: Computational Biomedicine PhD Tri-I program
B.S Biology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, 2014
M.S Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2015
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Steven Hill, M.Sc
Data Analyst / AI (2016-2018), Current: Freenome
B.Sc Computer Science, Oregon State University, OR, 2014
M.Sc Computer Science, Oregon State University, OR, 2016
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Ryan Brand, M.Sc
Data Analyst / AI (2017-2019)
Current: Amazon
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B.A Mathematics, Williams College, MA, 2013
M.Sc Computer Science (Computational Biology), Columbia University, NY, 2018
Kevin Huang, B.S
Bioinformatics Associate (2017-2018)
Current: MD student, UC Irvine
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B.S. Biomedical engineering, Applied Math and Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2017
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Ariel Swett, B.S
Research Technician
Current: MD student, Harvard University
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B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2020
Yohyoh Wang, B.A
M.S Student, Weill Cornell Computational Biology
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B.A Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, IL, 2018
Anushri Arora, M.S
Machine learning Analyst
Current: PhD Student, Princeton University
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B.Tech. Computer Engineering, NMIMS, Mumbai, India, 2019
M.S Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2021
Daniel Halmos, B.A
Data Analyst / AI
Current: PhD Student, UCSD
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B.A Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2021
Sanjay Kottapalli, B.S
​M.S Student, Weill Cornell Computational Biology Program
Current: PhD Student, University of Washington
B.S Molecular and Cellular Biology, Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2019
Paulina Chamely, M.S
Bioinformatics Analyst
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B.S Biomedical Computation, Stanford University, CA, 2018
M.S Biology, Stanford University, CA, 2019
Jean Quentin, M.S
Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer​
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B.S and M.S in Computer Science CentraleSupélec, Paris, France, 2021
M.S in Applied Mathematics and Machine learning, ENS Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, 2022
Noelle Wheeler, B.S
M.S Student, Weill Cornell Computational Biology
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B.S Computational Biology; UCLA, CA, 2022
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Rebecca Murray, B.S
Data Analyst / AI
Current: PhD Student, Tri-Institute
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B.S Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2018
Clayton Hughes, B.S
Research technician
Current: PhD Student, Columbia University
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B.S Biological Sciences, Cornell University, NY, 2020
Vivian Lu, B.S
Bioinformatics Analyst​
Current: PhD Student, Columbia University
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B.S Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, CA, 2022
B.S Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CA, 2022
Aaron Sossin, M.S
Bioinformatics Associate / AI​
Current: PhD Student, Columbia University
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B.S Neuroscience; Computer Science Minor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2020
M.S Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, CA 2022
Sheng Kao, B.A
Bioinformatics Associate​
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B.A Biology; Computer Science Minor, Oberlin College, OH, 2020
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Jesus Sotelo, B.Sc
Technical assistant
B.Sc Biology, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, NY, 2014
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Sneha Mittal, M.S
Bioinformatics Analyst
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B.S Computational Biology; University of Pittsburgh, PA, 2021
M.S Computational Biomedicine and Biotechnology; University of Pittsburgh, PA, 2023
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