
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, Group Leader at Technical University of Dresden
Hannah Carter, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, UC San Diego
Anne Carvunis, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg, School of Medicine
Mike Daly, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
Robert DeConde, 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
Merril Gersten, Chief Sci Officer, BioLineRx, Inc.
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
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
Ara Shamim Mollah, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics at WUSTL
Dan Pekin, Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Barbara
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
Jisoo Park, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
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, 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
Menzies Chen, Senior Product Manager, Clinical Informatics at Illumina
Michel Choueiri, 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
Mitra Koyel, Pfizer, Inc.
Jason F. Kreisberg, PhD, Director of Science at Zephyr AI
Dwight Kuo, Staff Scientist, Mendel Biotechnology
Ryan Kelley, Associate Director Bioinformatics at Illumina
Craig Mak, Director of Strategy, Arbor Biotechnologies
Adriana Pitea,
Sanath 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
Taylor Sittler, Co-Founder, Color Genomics. Adjunct Prof., UCSF
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
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
Aude Guénolé
Emre Guney
Kristin Klepper
Atanas Kamburov
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
In Memoriam
- Dr. Ki-Young Lee (Assistant Professor, Ajou University, Korea)