People
Principal Investigator
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
PhD in Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Research Scientists
Instructor in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
PhD in Computational Biology and Machine Learning, University of Edinburgh
Research Associate in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
PhD in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia
Staff
Project Coordinator
BS in Neurobiology and English, UW-Madison
Graphics Assistant II, 4D Nucleome DCIC
BFA in Fine and Studio Arts, Northeastern University
Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Institut Pasteur (Université de Paris Cité)
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, University of California, Riverside
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Bioinformatics/Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine / Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany)
Visiting Scholar
MD and PhD in Translational Medicine from Seoul National University, Korea
Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Programmer (2009-2014)
PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard Medical School
PhD in Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG), Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, City University of Hong Kong
Students
PhD student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)
BA in Biochemistry, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
PhD student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)
BS in Information and Data Sciences, California Institute of Technology
PhD student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)
BS in Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Summer Intern / Undergraduate Student
Harvard, Harvard College Research Program Award: Deep learning genomics for isoform splicing across cell type and genetic variants
PhD student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)
Master in Biomedical Informatics, HMS
Staff Scientists and Software Engineers
Research Associate
PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Zurich
Senior Data Curator, 4D Nucleome DCIC
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Computational Biologist
BS in Computer Science and French, University of Virginia
Bioinformatics Scientist
BS in Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology
Associate Computational Biologist
MPhil in Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
Associate Computational Biologist
MPhil in Computational Biology, University of Cambridge
Bioinformatics Scientist
PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Padova
Data Curator
PhD in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
Associate Computational Biologist
BA Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Associate Computational Biologist
BS in Biotechnology and Computer Science, Rutgers University
Backend Engineer
M.Eng in Computer Science, BA Computer Science, Cornell University
Alumni: Research Scientists
Dana Vuzman (2020-2023) PhD in Computational Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dr. Soohyun Lee (2012-2021) PhD in Bioinformatics, Boston University → Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Park Lab → Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Exact Sciences
Dr. Burak H Alver (2010-2021) PhD in Physics, MIT → Scientific Director, 4D Nucleome DCIC, Park Lab → Head of Data Science, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Alumni: Staff
Joanna Lee (2019-2022) Project Coordinator → Senior Administrative Partner, Foundation Medicine
Anna Chung (2016-2019) Project Coordinator → MGH
Alumni: Postdoctoral Fellows
Yoo-Jin (Jiny) Ha (2024-2025) PhD in Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine → Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Science, Hanyang University
Doga Gulhan (2017-2024) PhD in Physics, MIT → Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital / HMS
Viktor Ljungström (2020-2023) MD, PhD in Medical Genetics, Uppsala University → Resident Physician in Clinical Genetics, Uppsala Akademiska Hospital
Aikaterini Chatzipli (2020-2023) PhD in Genetics, University of Cambridge → Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital → Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital
Craig Bohrson (2017-2022) PhD, BIG – Thesis: Discovery and Analysis of Somatic Mutations in Aging Neurons Using Single-Cell DNA Sequencing
Simon (Chong) Chu (2017-2022) PhD in CS & Engineering, University of Connecticut → Principal Data Scientist, ROME Therapeutics → Wistar Fellow, The Wistar Institute
Geoff Nelson (2016-2022) PhD in Bioinformatics, MRC-LMB → Senior Scientist in Bioinformatics, AstraZeneca
Yu-Han Huang (2018-2021) PhD in Pharmacology, Taipei Medical University (Taiwan); Joint with Tim Yu Lab → Research Associate, Boston Children’s Hospital
Youngsook Lucy Jung (2010-2021) PhD in Health Sciences & Technology, MIT → Instructor, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital / HMS
Yanmei Dou (2017-2021) PhD in Bioinformatics, Peking University → Assistant Professor, Westlake University
Ning Shen (2019-2021) PhD in Pharmacology & Computational Biology Certificate, Duke University → Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University
Jinkuk Kim (2017-2020) PhD in Bioinformatics & Integrative Genomics, MIT → Assistant Professor, KAIST
Jake (June-Koo) Lee (2017-2020) MD, Seoul National University; PhD, KAIST → Medical Resident, Brigham & Women’s Hospital → Oncology Fellow, MSK → Assistant Professor, MSK
Dhawal Jain (2016-2020) PhD, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Bayer
Minseok (Daniel) Kwon (2015-2020) PhD in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University → Biotech
Tiziana Sanavia (2016-2019) PhD in Bioengineering, University of Padova → Assistant Professor, University of Turin
Su Wang (2016-2019) PhD in Bioinformatics, Tongji University → Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Isidro Cortes Ciriano (2016-2019) PhD in Bioinformatics, Institut Pasteur Paris → Group Leader, EMBL-EBI
Giorgio Melloni (2017-2019) PhD in Computational Biology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia → Research Scientist, Broad Institute
Vincent (Eun-Cheon) Lim (2016-2017) PhD in Bioinformatics, MPI Tübingen → Biotech
Scott P Kallgren (2014-2017, BIRT) PhD in Yeast Chromatin Biology, Columbia University; Thesis: Elucidating the Genome-Wide Role of Spt5 in Transcription → Scientist in Bioinformatics, Moderna Therapeutics
Lixing Yang (2010-2017) PhD in Genetics, University of Georgia → Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Jia Wang (2015-2017, BIRT) PhD in Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Thesis: Whole genome/exome sequencing reveals rare de novo/somatic copy number variations and their correlation with phenotypes in Autism spectrum disorders → Associate Investigator, Peking University
Semin Lee (2011-2016) PhD in Biochemistry, University of Cambridge → Assistant Professor, UNIST (Korea)
Nils Gehlenborg (2010-2015) PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Cambridge & EMBL-EBI → Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS
Andrew Wei Xu (2011-2014) PhD, University of Ottawa → Scientist, Illumina, Inc.
Joshua WK Ho (2010-2013) PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Sydney → Laboratory Head, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute → Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Huiling Xue (2012-2013) PhD in Bioinformatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences → Assistant Professor, Shenyang Agricultural University
Tae-min Kim (2008-2012) MD & PhD in Microbiology, Catholic University of Korea → Professor, Catholic University of Korea
Ruibin Xi (2009-2012) PhD in Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis → Assistant Professor, Peking University
Michael Tolstorukov (2007-2012) PhD, V. Karazin Kharkov National University → Department Fellow, MGH → Director, Bioinformatics & Molecular Data Group, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Peter V Kharchenko (2006-2011) PhD in Biophysics, Harvard University → Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS
Shouyong Peng (2005-2010) PhD in Physics, Boston University → Computational Biologist, Broad Institute / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mikaela Keller (2009-2010) PhD Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne → Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with John Brownstein
Hyunsoo Kim (2007-2009) PhD, University of Minnesota → Staff Scientist, Wistar Institute → Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Birmingham
Hyunju Lee (2006-2007) PhD in CS, USC → Associate Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (Korea)
Eunjung (Alice) Lee PhD in Bioinformatics KAIST → Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Alumni: Students
Judy Wang (2025-2025) Cornell
Yifan Zhao (2020-2025) PhD student, HST (MIT) – Thesis: Decoding Brain Somatic Mosaicism with New Single-Cell Copy Number Analysis Methods
Niklas Engel (2023-2025) Master’s student, Heidelberg University → PhD Candidate, Cambridge University
Tilly Rigby (2024-2024, MBI) BS, Tufts; Thesis: Supervised by Dr. Glodzik
Julie Tran (2024-2024) UCLA
Teng Gao (2022-2024) PhD student, BIG – Thesis: Somatic Genome Evolution in Cancer and Aging through the Lens of Transcription
Beverly Fu (2022-2024) Harvard College (Statistics/Chemistry) → MD Student, Stanford → Thesis: A Study of the Mutational Signatures of Structural Variation in Human Cancer. (Hoopes Prize)
Nina Xiong (2022-2022, MBI) BA, UC Berkeley; Thesis: Characterizing the Activity of Human Endogenous Retroviruses in Disease, MBI
Joshua Cook (2017-2022) PhD student, BBS (HMS), co-supervised with Kevin Haigis – Thesis: Studying the Tissue-Specificity of Cancer Driver Genes through KRAS and Genetic Dependency Screens
Catherine Song (2022-2022, MBI) BS, University of Auckland; Thesis: Validation and analysis of the Clinical Genome Analysis Platform Bioinformatics Pipeline for De Novo and Heterozygous Variant Calling, MBI
Courtney Lau (2021-2021) UCLA
Colin Miller (2020-2020) Washington University in St. Louis
Heather Gold (2017-2020) PhD student, BIG
Lawrence Huang (2019-2019) Brown
Ethan Oliver (2019-2019) Tufts
David Geng (2018-2018) Duke
Anuraag Gopaluni (2018-2018) Boston University
Connor Horton (2017-2018) Harvard College (MCB) → PhD Student, UC Berkeley → Thesis: Towards higher standards for quality control and analysis of single-cell Hi-C data.
Rebecca Panitch (2017-2017) Brandeis
Danielle Rubin (2017-2017) University of Chicago
Yixuan He (2017-2017) Dartmouth
Jennifer Walsh (2016-2017) Harvard College (Physics) → PhD Student, Harvard
Jeewon (Grace) Hwang (2016-2017, Computational Science and Engineering, Harvard SEAS) Computational Science and Engineering, Harvard SEAS) – BS, KAIST; Thesis: Computational approaches toward analysis of 4D architecture of genomes to reveal chromatin contacts genome-wide
Fritz Lekschas (2015-2016) Master’s student, Freie Universität Berlin → PhD student, Harvard School of Applied Sciences and Engineering → Head of Visualization Research, Ozette Technologies
Niklas Smedemark-Margulies (2014-2015, HMS Immunology) BA, Amherst College; Thesis: Next-Generation Roadmap for Patient-Centered Genomics
Ling-Ya (Monica) Chao (2014-2015) Harvard
Anton Xue (2014-2015) Boston Latin School → Yale undergrad → UPenn PhD
Jeremy Liu (2014-2014) Yale
Richard Park (2009-2014) PhD student, Bioinformatics, Boston University – Thesis: Visualization and Analysis of Large-Scale Sequencing Studies → Director of Data Platforms, Syntelli
Daniel S Day (2009-2014) PhD student, BIG (MIT) – Thesis: The Dissection of VEGFA Stimulus-Responsive Regulatory and Transcriptional Changes in Angiogenesis → Postdoc, Richard Young Lab, Whitehead Institute
Eric Bishop (2008-2012) PhD student, Bioinformatics, Boston University – Thesis: Characterization of Chromatin Architecture and the Mechanism of Dosage Compensation in Drosophila melanogaster
Lucy Y Liu (2011-2011) Wellesley)
Nathan Clement (2009-2009) Brigham Young University
Matthew Salesi (2009-2009) Princeton
Julie Yoo (2007-2008, MBA, HST/MIT) MBA, HST/MIT
Songzi Du (2005-2006) MIT
MinJeong Ahn (2005-2006) MIT
Kathy Ye (2005-2006) MIT
Fan Yang (2005-2006) MIT
Daon Ha (2005-2006) MIT
Christopher Palmer (2005-2006) MIT
Wafa Malik Graduate Student, Biological & Biomedical Sciences program (HMS), G1, Graduate Student, Hata Lab
Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers
Tae Hee Clara Kim (2021-2025) BS, Wellesley College → Medical Student, Boston University
Rahi Navelkar (2022-2025) MS in Biotechnology, Georgetown University
Clara Bakker (2019-2025) Jr. Scientific Programmer, 4D Nucleome DCIC
Bianca Morris (2019-2025) ALM, Sr. Front End Engineer
Doug Rioux (2021-2024) MD, Yale
David Michaels Software Engineer
Benedikt Geiger (2022-2024, MBI) BS/MS, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Thesis: “Correlated Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Mutational Signature Analysis” → PhD Student, BIG, Harvard
Victoria Stevens (2021-2023) CS, Yale → Medical Student, Mayo Clinic
Kent Pitman (2019-2023) Lead Senior Software Developer for the Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP)
Antuan Tran (2021-2023) CS, Harvard → Medical Student, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Andrea Cosolo (2019-2023) PhD in Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich → Scientist, Roche
Sarah Reiff (2018-2022) PhD in Cellular Biology, University of Georgia → Senior Scientific Knowledge Engineer, GSK
Phil Grayson (2021-2022) PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard → Bioinformatics Scientist, Beam Therapeutics
Alex Balashov (2016-2022) Senior Software Developer, 4D Nucleome DCIC
Victor Mao (2019-2021) Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UC Berkeley → Machine Learning Software Engineer, Google
Luisa Mercado (2018-2021) Webster University → Master’s student, Simon Fraser University → Bioinformatics Specialist, University of British Columbia
Eric Berg (2020-2021) BA in English and Computer Science, Tufts
Alon Galor (2017-2021) Applied Mathematics, Brown → PhD Student, University of Oxford
Koray Kirli (2016-2020) PhD in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology → Technical Coordinator, The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive
Carl Vitzthum (2016-2020) BA in Computational Biology, Colby College → Senior Software Engineer, Seres Therapeutics
Scott Ouellette (2015-2019) BS in Computer Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology → Software Developer
Maxwell Sherman (2016-2019) Applied Mathematics, Brown; MPhil, University of Cambridge → PhD Student, EECS, MIT
Jeremy Johnson (2016-2019) Software Development Lead, 4D Nucleome DCIC
Jennifer Marx (2015-2019) MEng in Electrical Engineering, Boston University → Lead Software Developer
Chad Serrant (2016-2019) BS in Computer Science, MIT → Software Engineer, VMware Tanzu Labs
Alison Barton (2016-2018) Biology and Archaeological Studies, Yale; MPhil in Biological Science (Genetics), University of Cambridge → PhD Student, BIG, Harvard
Psalm Haseley (2010-2015) Bioinformatics, Rochester Institute of Technology → Programmer
Geehoon Hong (2009-2010) Mathematics, Georgia Tech → Data Analyst, TrackMan
Vidhu Choudhary (2007-2008) MS, University of Rajasthan → Senior Data Consultant, Kaiser Permanente
Jonathan Dreyfuss (2006-2008) Bioinformatics, Boston University → Director, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core, Instructor in Medicine, HMS
Weil R Lai (2004-2007) Chemical Engineering, MIT → Medical Student, Tufts University → later Urologist, Hunterdon Medical Center
Richard Kim (2003-2005) CS, Harvard → Medical Student, UCSF
Alumni: Visiting Scholars
Yoo-Na Kim (2023-2024) Assistant Clinical Research Professor, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Onur Baloglu (2018-2019, student intern) Undergraduate, Middle Eastern Technical University METU, Ankara → PhD Candidate, METU Ankara
Jumanah Alshenaifi (2016-2016) PhD in Biomedical Sciences, UT → Assistant Project Manager, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mattia Forcato (2014-2014) PhD student, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia → Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia
Jae Won Yun (2014-2014) MD, Seoul National University; Fellow, Samsung Medical Center
Luca Petiti (2013-2014) PhD student in Genome Sciences/Genomics, Univ. degli Studi di Milano → Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council – Institute of Biomedical Technologies
Marc Streit (2012-2012) Assistant Professor, Johannes Kepler University
Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi (2012-2012) PhD student, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia → Research Fellow, University of College London
Alexander Lex (2011-2011) PhD student, Graz University of Technology → Assistant Professor of CS, University of Utah