To achieve great things...

Principal Investigator:

  • Ilias Tagkopoulos, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associates:

  • Shanghyeon Kim, Ph.D.
  • Konstantinos Markakis, Ph.D.

the lab in a nutshell

... you need a great team

Graduate Students:

  • Cheng-En Tan (Ph.D., CS)
  • Trevor Chan (Ph.D., CS)
  • Jason Youn (Ph.D., CS)
  • Fangzhou Li (Ph.D., CS)
  • Muhammad Adil Salim (Ph.D., Microbiology)
  • Arielle Soomi Yoo (Ph.D., BME)
  • Michael Gunning (Ph.D., CS)
  • Bobby Missirian (Ph.D., CS)


Our People

Ilias Tagkopoulos
PROFESSOR,
Department of Computer Science & Genome Center
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Shanghyeon Kim
Postdoctoral,
Genome Center
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Konstantinos Markakis
Postdoctoral,
Genome Center
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Cheng-En Tan
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Computer Science
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Trevor Chan
Ph.D Candidate,
Department of Computer Science
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Jason Youn
Ph.D Candidate,
Department of Computer Science
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Fangzhou Li
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Computer Science
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Arielle Soomi Yoo
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Muhammad Adil Salim
Ph.D. Candidate,
Microbiology Graduate Group
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Bobby Missirian
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Computer Science
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Michael Gunning
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Computer Science

Keer Ni
Junior Specialist,
Department of Computer Science
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ALUMNI


Postdoctoral Associates
• Erol Kavvas, 2020-2022, currently Data Scientist at Envisagenics.
• Bo Mi Lee, 2019-2021, currently Faculty at UCF.
• Navneet Rai, 2012-2018, currently Principal Scientist at EQUII.
• Athanasios Tsoukalas, 2012-2017, currently Professional Researcher at NYU-Abu Dhabi.
• Violeta Zorraquino Salvo, 2013-2015, currently Postdoctoral Associate at UC Davis.
• Semarhy Quinones-Soto, 2012-2014, currently Faculty at CSU, Sacramento.
• Javier Carrera, 2012-2013, currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.
• Vadim Mozhayskiy, 2010-2013 currently Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
• Jiyeon Park, Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-2012, currently with PPNL.
• Martin Dragosits, Postdoctoral Associate, 2010-2011, currently with University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Students
• Christian Millsop, Ph.D., 2020-2022, currently Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Treatment.com Inc.
• Tarini Naravane, Ph.D., 2019-2022, currently Scientific Researcher at US Department of Agriculture.
• Gabriel Simmons, M.S., 2020-2022, currently with Dr. Dipak Ghosal at UC Davis.
• Yue Jin, B.S., 2020-2022.
• Ameen Eetemadi, Ph.D., 2014-2021, currently Data Scientist at Ancestry.
• Beatriz Pereira, Ph.D., 2014-2020, currently Project Manager at LakePharma, Inc.
• Simon Kit Chu, Ph.D. student, 2018-2020, currently with Siegel Lab at UC Davis.
• Xiaokang Wang, Ph.D., 2013-2020, currently Quantitative Analyst at Point72 Asset Management.
• Rishi Subramanian, BS, 2018-2019.
• Shweta Das, BS, 2018-2019.
• Minseung Kim, Ph.D., 2018, currently with Pipa Corp.
• Nick Joodi, MS, 2017-2018.
• Supriya Shri Shree Prakash, BS, 2017-2018, currently with Intel Inc.
• Linh Huynh, Ph.D., 2010-2017, currently Postdoctoral Associate at UC Davis.
• Vivek Dubey, MS, 2016-2017, currently with Nvidia Inc.
• Mackenzie Perkins, BS, 2015-2017.
• Anthony Orona, BS, 2016.
• Carl Glahn, BS, 2016.
• Kenan Nalbant, BS, 2016.
• Rhys Lee 2015-2016.
• Weston Selna, BS, 2015-2016.
• Ryan Sha, BS, 2014-2016.
• Arlo Lobascio, BS, 2012-2014, currently with Elite Medical Scribes.
• Christopher Chen, BS, 2013, currently with Digital Insight.
• Daniel Lewis, Ph.D. BME rotation student, 2013, currently Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis.
• Davis Shih, BS, 2013.
• Janina Mejia, BS, 2013, currently with Smiths Detection.
• Lingshu Tang, BS, 2013.
• Runyu (Roy) Shi, BS, 2013.
• Steven Hung, BS, 2013, currently with Dishcraft Robotics.
• Vann Teves, BS, 2013.
• Arun Durvasula, BS, 2012-2013, currently Ph.D. Student at UCLA.
• Jing Luo, BS, 2012-2013, currently with quickshift.io.
• Eren Gultepe, MS, 2011-2013, currently with University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
• Daniel Nicklas, Ph.D. BME rotation student, 2011-2012, currently Ph.D. Student at UC Davis
• Ladan Doroud, Ph.D. CS rotation student, 2011-2012, currently Engineer with Ancestry DNA.

IGEM teams
• IGEM 2016: Alexis Caligiuri, Amanda Everitt, Brent Weyers, Jonathan Chen, Samir Akre.
• IGEM 2015: Andrew Michelmore, Andrew Shephard, Gabriel Freund, Joanne Wu, Logan Vinson, Muntaha Samad.
• IGEM 2014: Brian Tamsut, E. Aaron Cohen, James Lucas, Julie Yeonju Song, Lucas Murray, Sarah Ritz, Simon Staley.
• IGEM 2013: Alex Neckelmann, Amy Soon, Aura Ferreiro, David Hwang, Lucas Murray.
• IGEM 2012: Akshay Sethi, Christine Olson, Colin Deniston, Deborah Park, Mattan Hamou, Nick Csicsery, Pui Yan Ho, Sahar Hojjat, Sergio Waqued, Spencer Wong.
• IGEM 2011: Aaron Heuckroth, Keegan Owsley, Nick Csicsery, Tim Fenton.
• IGEM 2010: Tim Fenton, Keegan Owsley, Arjun Nair, Jennifer Lau, Holly Lam, Justin Tantiongloc.

Visiting researchers
• Ki-Jo Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2016-2018, currently an Associate Professor, The Catholic University of Korea.
• Masataka Saito, Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014, currently Assistant Director, Japan’s Patent Office.

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