
Ideker Lab and colleagues on Catalina Island (2018 Retreat)
Lab Alumni
The Ideker Laboratory has welcomed many researchers over the years — ranging from undergraduates to research scientists. Below is a list of the lab’s many alumni. Please submit profile updates to idekeradmin@ucsd.edu. Visit the People page to view our current lab members.
Academia
Sorted alphabetically by last name.
- Maya Agarwal, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center
- Nada Amin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard
- Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor at UC San Francisco
- Alex Beckett, Undergraduate Student, UC San Diego
- Andreas Beyer, Professor, University of Cologne
- Audrey Bogosian, Undergraduate student at UC San Diego
- Nam Bui, Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Health Care
- Song Cao, Graduate School
- Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Chair Professor Tsinghua University
- Hannah Carter, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, UC San Diego
- Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg, School of Medicine
- Mike Daly, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
- Robert DeConde, MD, Acting Instructor at UW Radiology
- Colleen J. Doherty, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, NC State University
- Rob DeConde, Medical School, UC San Diego
- Stephanie Fan, Program Manager, Computer Vision & Machine Learning, Amazon
- Mitchell Flagg, Medical Student at UC San Diego
- Merril Gersten, Chief Sci Officer, BioLineRx, Inc.
- Sukhada Ghewari, Masters Student at UC San Diego
- Joris van de Haar, PhD student, Netherlands Cancer Institute
- Cameron Hines, Emergency Medicine Res Assist Prg, Kern Medical Center
- Matan Hofree, Postdoctoral Associate at Broad Institute
- Justin Huang, Research Investigator in Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Tim Hull, App Programmer/Analyst at University of Michigan
- Eric Jaehnig, Research Associate at Baylor College of Medicine, UCSF
- Iris (Tongqiu) Jia, Graduate Student at University of Washington, Seattle
- Tai Kan, Professor at University of Pennsylvania
- Manisha Kapasiawala, PhD Student, Princeton (CSBC/PS-ON Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Summer 2018)
- Michael Kramer, MD, PhD. Physician Scientist program at Washington University in St. Louis
- Anton Kratz,
- Simon Larsen, PhD Research Fellow, University of Southern Denmark
- Eunjung (Alice) Lee, Assistant Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
- Stina Mui Singel, MD PhD, Medical Director at Genentech
- Jianzhu Ma, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Purdue University
- Willy Markuske, San Diego Super Computer Center
- Manny Michaca, PhD Student, University of Pittsburgh
- Shamim Mollah, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics at WUSTL
- Dan Pekin, Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Barbara
- Oishi Poddar, Masters Student at UC San Diego
- Yue Qin, Postdoc at Broad Institute
- Lily Rajaee, attending medical school
- Priti Talwar Ravanan, Associate Professor, Vellor Institute of Technology
- Timothy Ravasi, Professor of Marine Sciences at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- Sara Brin Rosenthal, PhD, Associate Director of Research, UCSD Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Rintaro Saito, Project Professor at Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
- Taylor Sittler, Co-Founder, Color Genomics. Adjunct Prof., UCSF
- John Paul Y.C. Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Erica Silva, PhD/MD candidate, UC San Diego Medical school
- Rohith Srivas, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, Mike Snyder Laboratory
- Kai Tan, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
- Kevin Thai, Graduate Student at MIT
- Chris Workman, Professor, Danish Technical University
- Timothy Yoon, Undergraduate Student, UC San Diego
- Michael Yu, PhD, Research Professor at Toyota Technological Institute
- Christian Zmasek, Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at J. Craig Venter Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
Industry
Sorted alphabetically by last name.
- Maayan Baron, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at Zephyr AI
- Gordon Bean, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumnia
- Daniel Carlin, PhD, Senior Principal Scientist at Data4Cure, Inc
- Menzies Chen, Senior Product Manager, Clinical Informatics at Illumina
- Michel Choueiri, MD, Oncologist and founder of Cancerdocs
- Han-Yu Chuang, Director, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at Roche
- Wilbert Copeland, Scientist at Celgene
- Janusz Dutkowski, Founder and CEO, Data4Cure
- Dorothea Emig, Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
- Luke Fassino, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Cole Fassino, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Ana Luisa Flores-Bojorquez, Pfizer
- Aaron Gary, Bioinformatics Engineer
- Roza Ghamari, Software Engineer, Senior at Trifacta
- Andrew Gross, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
- Gregory Hannum, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Synthetic Genomics
- Brian Hsu, Co-founder of Canteen
- Philipp Jaeger, Principal Scientist / Laborleiter at Boehringer Ingelheim
- Atanas Kamburov, PhD, Omics Computational Biology Team Lead at Owkin
- Mitra Koyel, Pfizer, Inc.
- Jason F. Kreisberg, PhD, Director of Science at Zephyr AI
- Brent Kuenzi, PhD, Principal Computational Biologist at Vividion Therapeutics. Inc.
- Dwight Kuo, PhD, Staff Scientist, Mendel Biotechnology
- Ryan Kelley, Associate Director Bioinformatics at Illumina
- Craig Mak, Director of Strategy, Arbor Biotechnologies
- Jisoo Park, PhD, Oncology Data Scientist at Novartis Institutes
- Devin Patel, MD, Urologist at The Urology Center of Colorado
- Adriana Pitea, PhD, Independent Data Science Consultant
- Sanath Kumar Ramesh, Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services
- Johannes Ruscheinski, Google
- Vladimir Rynkov
- Eric Sage, Production Engineer, Facebook
- Ariel Schwartz, Director, Computational Biology at Synthetic Genomics
- Brett Settle, Programmer, Google
- Stina Singel, MD, PhD, Executive Vice President, Head of Clinical Development, Oncology at Ascendis Pharma Inc.
- Dylan Skola, Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
- Mike Smoot, Principal Software Engineer at Synthetic Genomics
- Silpa Suthram, Senior Scientist, Immuno Oncology Translational Bioinformatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Hidenori Tanaka (Visiting Scholar) Toyota CR&D Laboratories, Inc., Genome Engineering Program
- Tina Wang, PhD, Scientist, Neuroscience Biomarkers at Janssen Pharmaceutical
- Huwate (Kwat) Yeerna, Founder & CEO at Guardiome
- Fan Zhang, Scientist at Illumina
- Fan Zheng, Associate Principal Scientist, Neomorph
- Wei Zhang, PhD, Senior Scientist, Informatics and Predictive Sciences at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Other
Sorted alphabetically by last name.
- Mark Anderson
- Ciara Black
- Justin Catalana, Founder of Fort Point Beer Company and Mill Valley Beerworks
- Barry Demchak, Retired
- Hoda Feizi
- Aude Guénolé
- Emre Guney
- Kristin Klepper
- Nerius Landys
- Samad Lotia
- Colin Luo
- Cameron McElfresh
- Scott McCuine
- David Ochoa
- Nicholas Regent, Habitat Restoration Fellow at Save The Bay
- Paul Tatarsky, formerly Software Cluster Consultant
- Peng-Liang Wang
- Lily Wong
- Lingkai Zeng, pursuing Master’s Degree
- Ailin Zhang
- Ziran Zhang
- Sirupurapu, Vikram
- Loughnan, Rob
In Memoriam
- Dr. Ki-Young Lee (Assistant Professor, Ajou University, Korea)