Group Members

Principal Investigator

Jacob M. Luber, Ph.D.

Director, Health Data Science Lab

  • CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Bioengineering (by courtesy), and Biology (by courtesy), The University of Texas at Arlington
  • Assistant Professor (MD/PhD Program), Burnett School of Medicine at TCU
  • Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Program, Harvard Medical School
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

Staff

Helen Shang, M.D., M.S.

Visiting Assistant Professor/ Internal Medicine Resident

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • Internal Medicine Resident (PGY-3), The University of California, Los Angeles
  • MD, Harvard Medical School
  • MS, The University of California, San Diego
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

Michael Robben, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

  • PhD at South Dakota State University in Moleculary Biology
  • BS in Biology at Salisbury University
  • co-mentored by Jon Weidanz, Ph.D.
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

PhD Candidates and Students

Mohammad Nasr

PhD Candidate, CS, G4

  • MS at Sharif University
  • BS at Sharif University
  • co-mentored by Manfred Huber, Ph.D.
  • Dissertation topic- style transfer, compression, and search of medical imaging
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

Jillur Rahman Saurav

PhD Student, CS, G2

  • BS in CS at Shahjalal University of Science & Technology
  • Dissertation topic- ViT architectures, generative synthesis, and image to image translation applied to multiplexed spatial proteomics
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn, CV, Personal Website
  • Selected for the 2023 Google CS Research Mentorship Program

Avishek Das

PhD Student, CS, G2

  • BS in CS at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology
  • Dissertation topic- Single cell analysis of X chromosome deactivation in non-model organisms
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

Kelli Fowlds

PhD Student, Bioengineering, G2

  • MA at Texas A&M University
  • BA at Texas A&M University
  • co-mentored by Michael Cho, Ph.D.
  • Dissertation topic- Graph neural networks for looking at cell-cell interactions in organoid models of T1D
  • LinkedIn

Anne Alsup

PhD Student, Bioengineering, G1

  • BS at The University of Texas at Arlington in Bioengineering
  • co-mentored by Michael Cho, Ph.D.
  • Dissertation topic- Deep learning algorithms for segmenting challening confocal microscopy images
  • LinkedIn

Jai Prakash Veerla

PhD Student, CS, G1

  • BS in CS at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
  • Dissertation topic- Measuring transcriptional bursting through lack of concordance between spatial proteomics and scRNA-Seq
  • LinkedIn

Parisa Boodaghi Malidarreh

PhD Student, CS, G1

  • BS at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
  • MS at Iran University of Science and Technology
  • Dissertation topic- Combining radiology images, polygenic risk scores, and genomics for looking at health disparities in at risk populations
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

Amir Hajighasemi

PhD Student, CS, G1

  • BS at Iran University of Science and Technology
  • MS at University of Tehran
  • Dissertation topic- Search (patient similarity and matching) algorithms that work accross different data modalities (H&E, mIF, & `omics)
  • LinkedIn

Joanne Mathew

PhD Student, CS, G1

  • BS at University of Texas at Arlington
  • co-mentored by VP Nguyen, Ph.D.
  • Dissertation topic- Analyzing health sensor data with deep learning
  • LinkedIn

Masters Students

Michael Aiyedun

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • LinkedIn

Biraaj Rout

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Ambedkar Institute Of Technology
  • LinkedIn

Mohamed Mohamed

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington

Aarushi Jain

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
  • Intern, NVIDIA HPC Team, 2021-2022
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn
  • Selected for 2023 Internships at Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory

Chinmayee Gangalam

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
  • LinkedIn

Priyanka Emani

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Engineering, Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology
  • LinkedIn

Poojitha Naidu

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
  • LinkedIn

Hayden Lotspeich

Masters Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • LinkedIn

Undergraduate Students

Paul Koomey

Undergraduate Student, CS

  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn
  • Awarded the UTA CSE undergraduate academic achievment award for having top GPA out of 2,055 undergrads in the department + research accomplishments
  • Received full time offer at Goldman Sachs + admission to Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science PhD in 2023

Fiza Saeed

Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering

Future Lab Members

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Alumni

Demetra Meletis

Associate Computational Biologist

  • BS at Texas A&M University in Biological Science
  • Currently pursuing a Masters in Genetics and Genomics at Universitat de Barcelona
  • LinkedIn

Research Collaborators

VP Nguyen, PhD - Department of Computer of Science, The University of Texas at Arlington

Manfred Huber, PhD - Department of Computer of Science, The University of Texas at Arlington

Junzhou Huang, PhD - Department of Computer of Science, The University of Texas at Arlington

Michael Cho, PhD - Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Georgios Alexandrakis, PhD - Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Justyn Jaworski, PhD - Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Theodora Koromila, PhD - Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington

Jeffery Demuth, PhD - Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington

Eric Jones Jr, PhD - Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Jon Weidanz, PhD - Associate Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Arlington

Minvera Cordero, PhD - Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington

Raquibul Hannan, MD, PhD - Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Laurentiu Pop, MD - Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD - Cancer Data Science Lab, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Peng Jiang, PhD - Cancer Data Science Lab, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Diana Carrasco, MD - Clinical Genetics, Cook Children’s Hospital

Michael Lewis, MD - Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Stuart Flynn, MD - Dean, Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University

Aleksandar Kostic, PhD - Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

Jason Abernathy, PhD - ARS, United States Department of Agriculture

Amal Isaiah, MD, DPhil - Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Paul Yi, MD - Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Vishwa Parekh, PhD - Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

MinJun Kim, PhD - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University