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
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
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
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
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
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
Adam He
Role: Postdoctoral Scholar
Department: Genetics
Year joined lab: 2026
Website: Link
Isaac Vock
Role: Postdoctoral Scholar
Department: Genetics
Year joined lab: 2025
Website: Link
Vivekanandan Ramalingam (Vivek)
Role: Research Scientist
Department: Genetics
Vivian Hecht
Role: Senior Staff Scientist
Department: Genetics
Amanda Everitt
Role: Computational Biologist & Project Manager
Department: Genetics
Co-Advisor: Jesse Engreitz
Lily Leung
Role: Administrative Associate
Manasvi Agarwal
Role: Research Data Analyst
Department: Genetics
Year joined lab: 2026
Alumni
| Aman Patel 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: ML Scientist @ Genentech 🌐 Website: link |
| Kelly Cochran 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: Postdoctoral fellow, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School 🌐 Website: link |
| Soumya Kundu 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: ML Scientist @ Relation 🌐 Website: link |
| Austin Wang 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: Research Scientist @ EvolutionaryScale (now Biohub) 🌐 Website: link |
| Surag Nair 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: ML Scientist @ Genentech 🌐 Website: link |
| Anusri Pampari 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: Applied Scientist II @ Amazon 🌐 Website: link |
| Akshat Nigam 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: Senior ML Scientist @ Kimia Therapeutics 🌐 Website: link |
| Maxim Zaslavsky 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: Co-Founder and CEO @ Immunera 🌐 Website: link |
| Anna Shcherbina 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Biomedical Informatics 🚀 First position: ML Engineer @ insitro 🌐 Website: link |
| Avanti Shrikumar 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Computer Science 🌐 Website: link |
| Peyton Greenside 👨💻 Role in lab: PhD student, Biomedical Informatics 🌐 Website: link |
| Selin Jessa 👨💻 Role in lab: Postdoctoral fellow, Genetics 🌐 Website: link |
| Jacob Schreiber 👨💻 Role in lab: Postdoctoral fellow, Genetics 🚀 First position: Assistant Professor in Genomics and Computational Biology, UMass Chan Medical School 🌐 Website: link |
| Eran Kotler 👨💻 Role in lab: Postdoctoral fellow 🚀 First position: Co-Founder and CEO @ Cellyrix Therapeutics 🌐 Website: link |
| Gerogi Marinov 👨💻 Role in lab: Research scientist, Genetics 🌐 Website: link |
| Revant Gupta 👨💻 Role in lab: Senior computational biologist, Genetics 🚀 First position: ML Scientist @ Relation 🌐 Website: link |
| Basak Eraslan 👨💻 Role in lab: Visiting postdoctoral fellow, Genetics 🚀 First position: Senior Scientist in ML and Bioinformatics @ Arc Institute 🌐 Website: link |
| Eila Arich-Landkof 👨💻 Role in lab: Senior staff scientist 🌐 Website: link |
| Ivy Evergreen 👨💻 Role in lab: Staff scientist 🌐 Website: link |
| Ryan Zhao 👨💻 Role in lab: Master's student, Computer Science 🚀 First position: ML Research Engineer @ Isomorphic Labs 🌐 Website: link |