Alumni

Research Scientists:

Kuntal Mukherjee
Present: Omega Bio-Tek

 
 
 

Stefania Marsili
Present: Georgia Tech BME

 
 
 
 

Rekha Pai

Post-docs:

Ailone Tichon
Past: Post-doc (2017-2019)

 

 

 

 

Gabor Banyai
Past: Post-doc (2017-2019)
Present: Post-doc, Rockefeller University

Ph.D. Students:

Penghao Xu
Past: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (2017-2022)
Present: Research scientist at Meta

 

 

Young Kyu Jeon

Past: Ph.D. in Biology, Georgia Tech
Present: Post-doc, NCI

yjeon39@gatech.edu

 

 

Alli Gombolay
Past: Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (2015-2022)
Present: ORISE Data Scientist in the Bacterial Special Pathogens Branch at the CDC

 

 

Chance Meers
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2013-2020)
Present: Post-doc, Columbia University

 

 

Sathya Balachander
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2012-2018)
Present: Licensing Associate, UAB

 

 

Havva Keskin
Past: Ph.D. Student in Biology (2011-2017)
Present: Research Associate, Omega Bio-Tek

 

 

Kyung Duk Koh
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2009-2015)
Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF

 

 

Patrick Ruff
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2008-2013)
Present: Lead Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton

 

 

Samantha Katz
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2007-2013)
Present: Biologist, Centers for Disease Control

 

 

Ying Shen
Past: Ph.D. in Biology (2007-2011)
Present: Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn

Master's Students:

Xin Hang
Past: M.S. in Bioinformatics (2018-2019)
Present: M.S. in Statistics (2019-2020)

 

 

 

 

Gayathri Pratap Kurup
Past: M.S. in Bioinformatics (2013-2014)
Present: Functional Analyst, Compass Group

 

 

 

 

Smriti Bahl
Past: M.S. in Biology (2021-2023)
Present: Lead Research Specialist, Emory University

Visiting Graduate Student:

Waleed M. M. El-Sayed, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Undergraduate Students:

2008: Keerthi Kesavarap (2008), Pooja Manjunatha (2008), Pavan Nandi (2008-2009), Lauren Rosenblatt (2008), and Yoshio Uemura (2008-2010)

2009: Panaporn Aphivantrakul (2009-2010), Katie Ashley (2009-2011), Hershel Bhadsavle (2009-2010), Crystal Ruper (2009-2010), and Matthew Taylor (2009-2011)

2010: Taylor Holbrook (2010, 2011), Megan Liu (2010), Whittney Mays (2010), and Nancy Thakkar (2010)

2011: Alli Gombolay (2011-2013), Courtney Price (2011-2012), Parmi Shah (2011-2012), Marika Shahid (2011), Lahari Shetty (2011-2013), Anna Sulimirski (2011-2012), and Nima Yazdanpanah (2011)

2012: Doyeon Kim (2012-2013), Christine Lee (2012-2013), Valerie Mock (2012-2013), and Mikhael Ravula (2012)

2013: Emma Graf (2013-2014), Khadija Haq (2013), Katrina Lancaster (2013), Chance Meers (2013-2014), Jake Raper (2013), Diana Sas (2013-2014), and Diana Tran (2013)

2014: Sevde Nur Biltekin (2014), Soo Hyun Chun (2014), Amreen Fazal (2014), Courtney Hegener (2014), Elif Sertel (2014), Alexandra Skulskaya (2014-2015), and Yael Toporek (2014)

2015: Marina Ali (2015, 2016), Alexander Carusi (2015), Katherine Gordon (2015-2016), Yonkyu Jang (2015-2016), Britney Lewis (2015), Swathi Rammohan (2015), Caroline Sane (2015), Lauren Traster (2015), and Mary Ann Thaliath (2015-2016)

2016: Tanika Bantukul (2016-2017), Reina Betancourt (2016-2017), Simran Gidwani (2016), Haley Haufschild (2016), Ashwinn John (2016), Anjeli Patel (2016-2018), Kyle Taylor (2016), and Stephanie Wyman (2016)

2017: Veena Ganapathy (2017), Efiyenia Ismini Kaparos (2017-2019), Paula Martinez-Feduchi (2017-2018), Preeya Parmar (2017-2018), and Trupti Patel (2017)

2018: Hannah Dailey (2018-2019), Prachi Jain (2018-2019), Hannah Lachmayr (2018-2019), Roshan Patel (2018), and Sandelin Sikes (2018)

2019: Mary Garrett McLeod (2019-2020), Zachary Mudge (2019-2020), Tena Nguyen (2019), and Uma Patel (2019)

2020: Katherine Herrell (2020) and Jeffrey J. Miller (2020)

Summer Students:

Elif Sertel (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey), Sevde Biltekin (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey), Omer Oncul (Fulton Science Academy), Cydney Wang (North Springs High School), Roopsha Bandopadhyay (Milton High School), and Hannah Kemelmakher (Walton High School)