people
Anshul Kundaje
Role: Principal Investigator, Associate Professor of Genetics and Computer Science
Department: Genetics, Computer Science
Website: Link
Chiho Im
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Year joined lab: 2024
Co-Advisor: Scott Boyd
Aman Patel
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Year joined lab: 2021
Research Interests: DNA language modeling and regulatory evolution
Valeh Valiollah Pour Amiri
Role: PhD Student
Department: Genetics
Year joined lab: 2023
Co-Advisor: Hani Goodarzi
Website: Link
Jake Silberg
Role: PhD Student
Department: Biomedical Data Science
Co-Advisor: James Zou
Website: Link
Alejandro Buendia
Role: PhD Student
Department: Biomedical Data Science
Year joined lab: 2025
Website: Link
Kelly Cochran
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Arpita Singhal
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Co-Advisor: Maya Kasowski
Title: NSF GRFP Fellow
Research Interests: DNA sequence modeling and cancer regulatory genomics
Kamal Obbad
Role: PhD Student
Department: Biophysics
Co-Advisor: Kyle Daniels
Chang Yun
Role: PhD Student
Department: Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: DNA binding proteins, Protein-protein interactions
Riya Sinha
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms of genetic diseases
Ziwei Chen
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Title: SGF fellow
Research Interests: Expression models
Salil Deshpande
Role: PhD Student
Department: ICME
Shouvik Mani
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Co-Advisor: Maya Kasowski
Research Interests: Gene regulation in cancer
Soumya Kundu
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Austin Wang
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Anusri Pampari
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Akshat Nigam
Role: PhD Student
Department: Computer Science
Selin Jessa
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: William Greenleaf
Title: Wu Tsai Neurosciences Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, CIHR Banting Fellow
Research Interests: Gene regulation in development
Danila Bredhikin
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: Jesse Engreitz
Lei Xiong
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: Micheal Bassik
Title: School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research Interests: Long-range DNA model and macrophage regulatory mechanism
Basak Eraslan
Role: Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: Aviv Regev
Eran Kotler
Role: Postdoctoral Scholar
Seungbyn Baek
Role: Postdoctoral Scholar
Department: Genetics
Year joined lab: 2025
Co-Advisor: Maya Kasowski
Pau Badia i Mompel
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow Department: Genetics Year joined lab: 2025 Research Interests: Synthetic biology and gene regulatory networks
Revant Gupta
Role: Senior Computational Biologist
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: Jesse Engreitz
Vivekanandan Ramalingam (Vivek)
Role: Research Scientist
Department: Genetics
Gerogi Marinov
Role: Research Scientist
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: William Greenleaf
Ryan Zhao
Role: Master’s Student
Department: Computer Science
Vivian Hecht
Role: Senior Staff Scientist
Department: Genetics
Eila Arich-Landkof
Role: Senior Staff Scientist
Ivy Evergreen
Role: Staff Scientist
Lily Leung
Role: Administrative Associate
Alumni
| Surag Nair 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🌐 Website: link |
| Maxim Zaslavsky 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🌐 Website: link |
| Anna Shcherbina 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Biomedical Informatics 🌐 Website: link |
| Avanti Shrikumar 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🌐 Website: link |
| Peyton Greenside 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Biomedical Informatics 🌐 Website: link |