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People
Vagheesh M. Narasimhan (vagheesh@utexas.edu)
Principal Investigator
Vagheesh Narasimhan is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Integrative Biology, Statistics and Data Science, as well as Population Health at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine from the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and later completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School with David Reich and Nick Patterson.
Brianna Flynn (brianna.flynn@utexas.edu)
PhD Student
Brianna Flynn is a PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology track). She received her Bachelor of Science in Biology (Honors) through the Dean’s Scholars program at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a recipient of the Provost's Graduate Excellence Fellowship, an NIH T32 Biomedical Big Data Training Grant and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Emily Javan (emjavan@utexas.edu)
PhD Student (primarily advised by Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers)
Emily Javan is a PhD student in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior and part of the UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium. She received her BS in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis with a minor in Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity and her MS in Population and Conservation Biology from Texas State University.
Eucharist Kun (eucharistkun@utexas.edu)
PhD Student
Eucharist Kun is a PhD student in the Biochemistry graduate program. He received his Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to returning to the University of Texas at Austin for the Biochemistry graduate program, he worked at MD Anderson in the Department of Gynecology Oncology and Reproductive Medicine as a research assistant.
Devansh Pandey (devanshpandeyiitkgp@gmail.com)
PhD Student
Devansh Pandey is a PhD in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program at UT Austin. He has a BTech-MTech dual degree student from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur majoring in Biotechnology and Biochemical engineering.
Michael Schwab (schwob@utexas.edu)
PhD Student (primarily advised by Mevin Hooten)
Michael Schwob is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research is funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Olivia Smith (osmith@utexas.edu)
PhD Student
Olivia Smith is a PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology track) on an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering (Honors) at Colorado State University. Prior to joining the lab she worked at Ginkgo Bioworks and Joyn Bio developing their next generation sequencing analysis platforms.
Joyce Wang (joyce.wang@utexas.edu)
PhD Student
Joyce Wang is a PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology track). She received her Bachelor of Science in (Computational) Biology at UT Austin. Prior to joining the lab she worked in the labs of Becca Young and Hans Hoffman.
Liaoyi Xu (xliaoyi@utexas.edu)
PhD Student
Liaoyi is a PhD student in the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology track). He received his Masters of Science from Zhejiang University.
Chitrank Gupta (xliaoyi@utexas.edu)
Masters Student
Chitrank is a Masters student in Computer Science at UT Austin. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay.
Alaukik Gupta (alockick.gupta@utexas.edu)
Undergraduate Student
Alaukik Gupta is an undergraduate majoring in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of the lab, he is involved in Texas Engineering World Health (TEWH) as an officer and team lead.
Alumni
Annie Zhou (azhou@utexas.edu)
PhD Student (primarily advised by Dr. Andrew Dunn)
Annie Zhou was a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering with a focus in optical imaging. She completed her BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Her work in the lab focused on deep learning to develop novel algorithmic approaches for increasing two-photon scanning speeds for in vivo neuro-vasculature studies. She is now a research scientist at Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences).
Megan Le (meganle@utexas.edu)
Masters Student
Megan Le was an integrated BS/MS student double majoring Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and was a Teaching Assistant for Principles of Computer Systems (CS 439). She was a recipient of the TIDES Summer Research Fellowship and an Endowed Presidential Fellowship. Her work in the lab focused on understanding natural selection in humans from time series data of ancient DNA. She is now a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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