Computational Biology Research Laboratory

Group Leader

• Mukul Bansal

PhD Students

• Samson Weiner (since Fall 2020)
• Naeem Ahmed (since Fall 2024)

Undergraduate Student Researchers

• Tyler Shollenberger (since Summer 2024)
• Carter Payne (since Summer 2024)
• Amogh Chaube (since Spring 2024)
• Abigail Horning (since Summer 2023)

Lab Alumni

Former PhD students:

1. Sumaira Zaman (Fall 2018 - Summer 2023, PhD student)
   First position: Genome Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2. Abhijit Mondal (Fall 2018 - Fall 2022, PhD student)
   First position: SDE-II at Amazon
3. Lina Kloub (Fall 2017 - Summer 2021, PhD student)
   First position: Teaching faculty at UConn CSE
4. Misagh Kordi (Spring 2014 - Spring 2019, PhD student)
   First position: Postdoc at UCLA
5. Lei Li (Fall 2013 - Spring 2019, PhD student)
   Current position: Senior algorithm engineer at Alibaba Inc

Former MS Students:

1. Saurav Dhar (Fall 2018 - Spring 2021, MS student; joint with Ion Mandoiu)

First position: Software engineer at Google

2. Soumya Kundu (Spring 2016 - Summer 2018, Undergraduate researcher and MS student)
   Current position: PhD student in computer science at Stanford

Former undergraduate student researchers:

1. Shreya Seshadri (Spring 2023 - Summer 2024, Undergraduate researcher)
2. Vihaan Shah (Summer 2023 - Spring 2024, Undergraduate researcher (REU))
3. Sunwang Luo (Summer 2023, Undergraduate researcher (REU))
4. Rachel Parsons (Fall 2021 - Summer 2023, Undergraduate researcher)
   Current position: PhD student in computer science at the Univ. of Maryland, College Park
5. Keegan Yao (Spring 2019 - Summer 2021, Undergraduate researcher)
   Current position: PhD student in computer science at Duke University
6. Emily Maciejewski (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
   Current position: PhD student in computer science at UCLA
7. Samson Weiner (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
   Current position: PhD student in computer science at UConn
8. Taylor Wade (Fall 2017 - Spring 2020, Undergraduate researcher)
   Current position: PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at Duke University
9. Ming Luo (Summer 2019 - Fall 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
10. Samuel Sledzieski (Spring 2017 - Spring 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at MIT
11. Ashim Ranjeet (Spring 2018 - Spring 2019, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Travellers
12. Brian Jaworowski (Spring 2018 - Fall 2018, Undergraduate researcher)
13. Soumya Kundu (Spring 2016 - Summer 2018, Undergraduate researcher and MS student)
    Current position: PhD student in computer science at Stanford
14. Hannah Reed (Summer 2017 - Spring 2018, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Cigna
15. Eric van Heel (Summer 2017 - Fall 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
16. Alex Masi (Summer 2017 - Fall 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Google
17. Chengchen Zhang (Spring 2017 - Summer 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: MS student in computer science at UC San Diego
18. Kevin Grabowski (Summer 2016 - Spring 2017, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Amazon
19. Maryzyrene Adao (Summer 2016, Undergraduate researcher)
20. James Boivie (Summer 2015 - Fall 2015, Undergraduate researcher)
    First position: Software engineer at Google

Former high-school student researchers

1. Sai Chimbili (Spring 2022 - Fall 2022)
2. Rishik Gowrishetti (Summer 2022 - Fall 2022)
3. Zack Eisbach (Summer 2021 - Fall 2021)
4. Aryamaan Dhomne (Summer 2021 - Fall 2021)
5. Yeshwanth Bommareddy (Fall 2018 - Spring 2019)