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

Mohammad Nasr

Postdoctoral Fellow, CS, G4

  • PhD at The University of Texas at Arlington in Computer Science
  • MS & BS at Sharif University
  • co-mentored by Manfred Huber, Ph.D.
  • Dissertation topic- style transfer, compression, and search of medical imaging
  • Google Scholar, LinkedIn

PhD Candidates and Students

Jillur Rahman Saurav

PhD Candidate, CS

  • 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

Jai Prakash Veerla

PhD Candidate, CS

  • 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 Candidate, CS

  • 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 Candidate, CS

  • 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

Kelli Fowlds

PhD Candidate, Bioengineering

  • 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 Candidate, Bioengineering

  • 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

Anahita Samadi

PhD Candidate, CS

Biraaj Rout

PhD Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Ambedkar Institute Of Technology
  • LinkedIn

Cody Tyler Reynolds

PhD Student, CS

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

Thuong (Lucy) Pham

PhD Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, Trinity University, Texas
  • LinkedIn

Mohamed Mohamed

PhD Student, CS

  • BS Computer Science, The University of Texas at Arlington

Hayden Lotspeich

PhD Student, CS

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

Masters Students

Rohan Sanjay Tiwari

MS, Biomedical Engineering

Undergraduate Students

Aarti Darji

Undergraduate Student, Data Science

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Alumni

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

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

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

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

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

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

Partha Sai Guttikonda

Masters Student, CS

Nikhil Santhapur

Masters Student, CS

Chinmayee Gangalam

Masters Student, CS

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

Amit Gupta

Masters Student, CS

Binita K C

Undergraduate Student, Biomedical Engineering

Yash Vishwanath Tobre

Masters Student, CS

Neel Vora

Masters Student, CS

Michael Aiyedun

Masters Student, CS

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

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

Shirin Nilizadeh, 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