Raquel Assis, Principal Investigator.

Raquel received her B.S. in Psychology and Zoology from the University of Florida in 2006, and her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan in 2011. She completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Berkeley in 2013, joined the faculty in the Department of Biology at Penn State in 2014, and the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at FAU in 2019. Her major research interests lie in developing novel methods for elucidating connections between genotype and phenotype.

Contact: rassis@fau.edu

Nafis Erfan, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Nafis received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from BRAC University in 2018, and his M.B.A. from Dhaka University in 2022. He joined the Assis and DeGiorgio groups in Fall 2022, where his research focuses on designing robust machine learning methods for predicting associations between traits.

Contact: nafisne1377@gmail.com

Andrew Goldberg, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Andrew received his B.A. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University in 2010, his M.S. in Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2013, and his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2015. He joined the Assis group in Fall 2022, where his research focuses on studying gene expression evolution.

Contact: agoldb20@fau.edu

Uwaise Ibna Islam, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Uwaise received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology in 2021. He joined the Assis group in Fall 2022, where his research focuses on developing machine learning methods for predicting associations between genes and phenotypes.

Contact: uwaiseibna03@gmail.com

Ria Kanjilal, Postdoctoral Researcher

Ria received her B.S. and M.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology in 2009 and 2014, respectively, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2022. She joined the Assis and DeGiorgio groups in Summer 2022, where her research focuses on constructing anomaly detection algorithms for genomic data.

Contact: riakanjilal@usf.edu

Antara Anika Piya, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science

Antara Anika received her B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology in 2014. She joined the Assis group in Fall 2021, where her current research focuses on designing machine learning tools for predicting evolutionary divergence from gene expression data.

Contact: apiya2021@fau.edu



Alumni

David Laloum, Postdoctoral Researcher, FAU (December 2021 - September 2022)
Current position: Data Science Consultant, IQVIA Belux

Mahsa Alemrajabi, Ph.D. Student in Physics, FAU (July 2021 - May 2022)
Current position: Ph.D. Student in Physics, FAU

John Davidian, M.S. Student in Artificial Intelligence, FAU (May 2021 - February 2022)
Current position: M.S. student in Artificial Intelligence, FAU

Saheed Oseni, Ph.D. Student in Integrative Biology, FAU (January - July 2021)
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mofitt Cancer Center

Srabanti Datta, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, FAU (January - May 2021)
Current position: Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, FAU

Ksenia Macias Calix, M.S. Student in Bioengineering, FAU (January - May 2021)
Current position: M.S. Student in Bioengineering, FAU

Xueyuan Jiang, Ph.D. Student in MCIBS, Penn State (January 2016 - December 2019)
Current position: Senior Scientist of Computational Biology at Merck

Balaji Kumar, Ph.D. Student in Biology, Penn State (August 2016 - August 2019)
Current position: Ph.D. Student in Biology (Toews Lab), Penn State

Juan Cerda, Ph.D. Student (rotation) in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Penn State (August - November 2017)
Current position: Ph.D. Student in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Penn State

Brent Perry, Undergraduate Researcher, Penn State (August 2014 - May 2017)
Current postion: M.D. Student at Thomas Jefferson University

Jacob Heldenbrand, M.S. Student in MCIBS, Penn State (January 2015 - July 2016)
Current position: Software Engineer at ClosedLoop.ai

Soufieh Hakimzadeh, Undergraduate Researcher, Penn State (January 2015 - August 2016)
Current position: Technical Product Manager at Oscar Health

Janne Olson, Undergraduate Researcher, Penn State (January - August 2015)

Will Rosenow, Undergraduate Researcher, Penn State (August - November 2014)
Current position: Biostatistician/Bioinformatician at the University of Virginia

Nabeel Ahmed, Ph.D. Student (rotation) in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Penn State (April - June 2014)
Current position: Computational Biologist at Resolution Bioscience