People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Peter J Park

Dr. Peter J Park

Principal Investigator

Research Scientists

Elizabeth (Hye-Jung) Chun

Elizabeth (Hye-Jung) Chun

Research Associate

Dominik Glodzik

Dominik Glodzik

Instructor

Staff

Shannon Ehmsen

Shannon Ehmsen

Graphics Assistant II

Cassie Perry

Cassie Perry

Project Coordinator

Postdoctoral Fellows

Christophe Boetto

Christophe Boetto

Research Fellow

Sangmi (Sandra) Lee

Sangmi (Sandra) Lee

Research Fellow

Kyung Ah (Kate) Woo

Kyung Ah (Kate) Woo

Research Fellow

Han (Flora) Qu

Han (Flora) Qu

Research Fellow

Corinne Sexton

Corinne Sexton

Research Fellow

Vinay Viswanadham

Vinay Viswanadham

Research Fellow

Hu Jin

Hu Jin

Research Fellow

L. Joe Luquette

L. Joe Luquette

Research Fellow

Julia Markowski

Julia Markowski

Research Fellow

Yuwei Zhang

Yuwei Zhang

Research Fellow

Students

Ann Caplin

Ann Caplin

Graduate Student

Gregory Brunette

Gregory Brunette

Graduate Student

Allen Lynch

Allen Lynch

Graduate Student

Jan Hummel

Jan Hummel

Undergraduate Student

Staff Scientists and Software Engineers

Dominika Maziec

Dominika Maziec

Software Engineer

William Ronchetti

William Ronchetti

Software Engineer

Dr. Michele Berselli

Dr. Michele Berselli

Bioinformatics Scientist

Alexander Veit

Alexander Veit

Software Engineer

Andy Schroeder

Andy Schroeder

Data Curator

Cesar Ferreyra-Mansilla

Cesar Ferreyra-Mansilla

Software Engineer

Charlotte Zhang

Charlotte Zhang

Associate Computational Biologist

Joseph Brew

Joseph Brew

Associate Computational Biologist

Michail Andreopoulos

Michail Andreopoulos

Associate Computational Biologist

Rahi Navelkar

Rahi Navelkar

Data Wrangler

Sarah Nicholson

Sarah Nicholson

Data Curator

Suhas Rao

Suhas Rao

Associate Computational Biologist

William Feng

William Feng

Associate Computational Biologist

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

Dr. Burak H Alver (2010-2021) PhD in Physics MIT → Scientific Director

Alumni: Staff

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

Anna Chung (2016-2019) BS in Psychology, Boston College

Alumni: Postdoctoral Fellows

Yoo-Jin (Jiny) Ha PhD in Biomedical Systems Informatics Yonsei University College of Medicine

Dr. Aikaterini Chatzipli (2020-2023) PhD in Genetics University of Cambridge → Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. Ning Shen (2019-2021) PhD in Pharmacology & Certificate in Computational Biology Duke University

Dr. Yu-Han Huang (2018-2021) PhD in Pharmacology Taipei Medical University (Taiwan)

Dr. Yanmei Dou (2017-2021) PhD in Bioinformatics Peking University (China)

Dr. Jinkuk Kim (2017-2020) PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics MIT

Dr. Jake (June-Koo) Lee PhD in Medical Science and Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Dr. Giorgio Melloni (2017-2019) PhD in Computational Biology Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

Doga Gulhan (2017-2024) PhD in Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Craig Bohrson (2017-2022) PhD HMS Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)

Dr. Vincent (Eun-Cheon) Lim (2016-2017) PhD in Bioinformatics Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Dr. Tiziana Sanavia (2016-2022) PhD. in Bioengineering University of Padova (Italy)

Dr. Su Wang (2016-2019) PhD in Bioinformatics Tongji University

Dr. Isidro Cortes Ciriano (2016-2020) PhD in Bioinformatics Institut Pasteur Paris (France)

Dr. Geoff Nelson (2016-2022) PhD in Bioinformatics MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Dr. Dhawal Jain (2016-2020) PhD in chromatin dynamics Ludwig Maximilians University (Max-Planck research school)

Dr. Youngsook Lucy Jung (2015-2021) PhD in Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Scott P Kallgren (2015-2017) PhD in Yeast Chromatin Biology Columbia University

Dr. Jia Wang (2015-2017) PhD in Neuroscience Institute of Neuroscience

Dr. Minseok (Daniel) Kwon (2015-2020) PhD in Bioinformatics Seoul National University

Dr. Semin Lee (2011-2016) PhD in Biochemistry University of Cambridge

Dr. Lixing Yang (2010-2017) PhD in Genetics University of Georgia

Dr. Eunjung (Alice) Lee PhD in Bioinformatics KAIST

Dr. Andrew Wei Xu PhD University of Ottawa Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2014)

Dr. Francesco Ferrari PhD in Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Dr. Huiling Xue PhD in Bioinformatics Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Hyunju Lee PhD in Computer Science University of Southern California

Dr. Hyunsoo Kim PhD University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Dr. Joshua WK Ho PhD in Bioinformatics University of Sydney

Dr. Mikaela Keller PhD Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2010

Dr. Michael Tolstorukov PhD V. Karazin Kharkov National University

Dr. Nils Gehlenborg PhD in Bioinformatics University of Cambridge and European Bioinformatics Institute

Dr. Peter V Kharchenko PhD in Biophysics Harvard University

Dr. Ruibin Xi PhD in Statistics Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Shouyong Peng PhD in Physics Boston University

Dr. Simon (Chong) Chu PhD in Computer Science and Engineering University of Connecticut

Dr. Tae-min Kim MD in Medicine and PhD in Microbiology The Catholic University of Korea

Dr. Viktor Ljungström PhD in Medical Genetics Uppsala University (Sweden)

Alumni: Students

Tilly Rigby (2024-2024) BS, Tufts; Thesis: Supervised by Dr. Glodzik

Niklas Engel (2023-2025) Heidelberg University → PhD Candidate Cambridge University

Teng Gao (2022-2024) PhD student BIG – Thesis: Somatic Genome Evolution in Cancer and Aging through the Lens of Transcription

Nina Xiong (2022-2022) BA, UC Berkeley; Thesis: Characterizing the Activity of Human Endogenous Retroviruses in Disease, MBI

Catherine Song (2022-2022) BS, University of Auckland; Thesis: Validation and analysis of the Clinical Genome Analysis Platform Bioinformatics Pipeline for De Novo and Heterozygous Variant Calling, MBI

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)

Courtney Lau (2021-2021) UCLA

Yifan Zhao (2020-2025) PhD student HST (MIT) – Thesis: Decoding Brain Somatic Mosaicism with New Single-Cell Copy Number Analysis Methods

Colin Miller (2020-2020) Washington University in St. Louis

Lawrence Huang (2019-2019) Brown

Ethan Oliver (2019-2019) Tufts

David Geng (2018-2018) Duke

Anuraag Gopaluni (2018-2018) Boston University

Yixuan He (2017-2017) Dartmouth

Rebecca Panitch (2017-2017) Brandeis

Joshua Cook (2017-2022) PhD student BBS (HMS)

Heather Gold (2017-2020) PhD student BIG

Danielle Rubin (2017-2017) University of Chicago

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.

Jennifer Walsh (2016-2017) Harvard College (Physics) → PhD Student Harvard

Jeewon (Grace) Hwang (2016-2017) 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) Freie Universität Berlin → PhD student Harvard School of Applied Sciences and Engineering → Head of Visualization Research

Niklas Smedemark-Margulies (2014-2015) BA, Amherst College; Thesis: Next-Generation Roadmap for Patient-Centered Genomics

Ling-Ya (Monica) Chao (2014-2015) Harvard

Jeremy Liu (2014-2014) Yale

Anton Xue (2014-2015) Boston Latin School → Yale undergrad → UPenn PhD

Lucy Y Liu (2011-2011) Wellesley)

Richard Park (2009-2014) PhD student Bioinformatics

Nathan Clement (2009-2009) Brigham Young University

Matthew Salesi (2009-2009) Princeton

Daniel S Day (2009-2014) PhD student BIG (MIT) – Thesis: The Dissection of VEGFA Stimulus-Responsive Regulatory and Transcriptional Changes in Angiogenesis → Postdoc

Eric Bishop (2008-2012) PhD student Bioinformatics

Julie Yoo (2007-2008) 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

Benedikt Geiger (2022-2024) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Thesis: “Correlated Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Mutational Signature Analysis” → PhD Student BIG

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

Phil Grayson (2021-2022) PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard → Bioinformatics Scientist

Doug Rioux (2021-2024) MD, Yale

Antuan Tran (2021-2023) CS, Harvard → Medical Student, Mayo Clinic

Eric Berg (2020-2021) BA in English and Computer Science, Tufts

Victor Mao (2019-2021) Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, UC Berkeley → Machine Learning Software Engineer, Google

Kent Pitman (2019-2023) Lead Senior Software Developer for the Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP)

Clara Bakker (2019-2025) Jr. Scientific Programmer, 4D Nucleome DCIC

Bianca Morris (2019-2025) ALM, Sr. Front End Engineer

Dr. Andrea Cosolo (2019-2023) PhD in Biology Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich → Scientist

Sarah Reiff (2018-2022) PhD in Cellular Biology Univ. of Georgia → Senior Scientific Knowledge Engineer

Luisa Mercado (2018-2021) Webster University → Master’s student, Simon Fraser University → Bioinformatics Specialist, University of British Columbia

Alon Galor (2017-2021) Brown → PhD Student University of Oxford

Maxwell Sherman (2016-2019) University of Cambridge → PhD Student EECS

Koray Kirli (2016-2020) PhD in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology → Technical Coordinator The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive

Jeremy Johnson (2016-2019) Software Development Lead, 4D Nucleome DCIC

Chad Serrant (2016-2019) BS in Computer Science, MIT → Software Engineer, VMware Tanzu Labs

Carl Vitzthum (2016-2020) BA in Computational Biology, Colby College → Senior Software Engineer, Seres Therapeutics

Alison Barton (2016-2018) University of Cambridge → PhD Student BIG

Alex Balashov (2016-2022) Senior Software Developer, 4D Nucleome DCIC

Scott Ouellette (2015-2019) BS in Computer Science, Wentworth Institute of Technology → Software Developer

Jennifer Marx (2015-2019) MEng in Electrical Engineering, Boston University → Lead Software Developer

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

David Michaels Software Engineer

Alumni: Visiting Scholars

Yoo-Na Kim (2023-2024) Assistant Clinical Research Professor, Yonsei University College of Medicine

Onur Baloglu (2018-2019) Ankara → PhD Candidate METU Ankara

Jumanah Alshenaifi (2016-2016) PhD in Biomedical Sciences UT → Assistant Propject Manager

Mattia Forcato (2014-2014) PhD student University of Modena & Reggio Emilia → Research Assistant Professor

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

Marc Streit (2012-2012) Assistant Professor, Johannes Kepler University

Guidantonio Malagoli Tagliazucchi (2012-2012) PhD student University of Modena and Reggio Emilia → Research Fellow

Alexander Lex (2011-2011) PhD student Graz University of Technology → Assistant Professor of CS