Computational and Systems Biology Faculty
Director
Faculty
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to autism spectrum disorders
Technical Expertise: Genetic linkage and mapping, whole exome and genome sequence analysis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Metastatic colonization, autonomous light-sheet microscopy, optical probes, computer vision
Professor
Research Interests: Statistical methods, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Single-cell regulatory genomics, cell fate engineering, function of non-coding elements and genetic variants.
Technical Expertise: Single-cell genomics, genome engineering, gene regulation, cell state engineering
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:Large language models, AI, spatial biology, image analysis, machine learning
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Quantitative spatiotemporal structure-function relationships of multi-molecular assemblies; linking molecular and cellular behavior across multiple scales; computational image analysis and mathematical modeling
Technical Expertise: Computer vision, stochastic modeling and model calibration, time series analysis
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Molecular recognition in protein folding, chaperone structural biology, and neurodegeneration
Technical Expertise: Biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, chemical biology and protein modeling
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Development of novel computational algorithms/models/pipelines for big, heterogeneous biological and medical data
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Optimization in conformational and network space
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Developing state-of-the-art machine learning approaches to extract radiological imaging and imaging-genomic biomarkers and to engender personalized prognostics in neuroscience and oncological applications
Technical Expertise: Advanced image analysis, neuroimaging, MRI, MEG/EEG, PET/SPECT
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Understanding tissue organization via machine learning; intra-tumor heterogeneity; computational image analysis and spatial statistics
Technical Expertise: Machine learning (both classical and deep). Image analysis specifically for microscopy
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Statistical analysis and rational design of cellular systems
Technical Expertise: principal components analysis and matrix factorization, statistical analysis of protein sequences, python for large scale data analysis
Professor
Research Interests: Integrating structure, kinetics, and computation to understand the molecular determinants and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule dynamics
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance and sensitivity; single molecule biophysics; synthetic biology
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine learning
Technical Expertise: Medical imaging analysis; radiomics-based modeling
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Biostatistics, Machine learning, Immunogenomics, and Tumor genomics space
Professor
Research Interests: Improving treatments for cancer by applying computer science and statistical methodologies to analyzing high-throughput biological data. New models and tools are currently in development to assist the investigation of disease mechanisms and their related diagnostic innovations.
Professor
Research Interests: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical genomics, clinical trial design, and biomarker studies
Technical Expertise: Developing and applying statistical and computational approaches to decipher genetic and genomic problems, in particular, human complex traits.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, gene mapping for complex traits
Technical Expertise: Developing and applying statistical and computational approaches to decipher genetic and genomic problems, in particular, human complex traits.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Epigenomics, single-cell data analysis, machine learning and deep learning algorithm development
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Statistical genetics, forward genetics screening, statistical computation, next-generation sequencing, genetic association studies
Technical Expertise: Statistical genetics, microbiome, statistical computation, bioinformatics, deep learning
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for Genomics, Sequence Basis of Genome Regulation, Statistical Methods for Single-cell Data Analysis, The Evolution of Noncoding Genome.
Associate Members
These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program responsibilities.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Development of methods to study heteroplasmy and the somatic evolution of cancers.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Statistics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies
