People

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

Joanna Lee (2019-2022) Project Coordinator → Senior Administrative Partner, Foundation Medicine

Anna Chung (2016-2019) Project Coordinator → MGH

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

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

Tae Hee Clara Kim (2021-2025) BS, Wellesley College → Medical Student, Boston 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

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