Our research lab develops machine learning methods with broad goals of data integration and model interpretation for biological and biomedical applications.

Lab dinner (farewell to the graduating students) at Plant City, Providence (April 2023)
First Row (Left to Right): Ritambhara Singh, Ananya Pavuluri, Yuan Pu, Deniz Toruner, Alexander Le, David (Inho) Lee, Nitya Thakkar, Momoka Kobayashi, Shalin Patel
Second Row (Left to Right): Tuan Pham, Whitney Sloneker, Hyeyeon Hwang, Amina Abdullahi, Michal Golovanevsky, Pinar Demetci, Yusuke Suita, Xinrui (Ray) Wang, Zhirui Li
Third Row (Left to Right): Ghulam Murtaza, Atishay Jain, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuqi Lei

Join our lab!

The lab is looking for highly motivated students, with strong computational skills, who are excited about developing data-driven approaches to solve important problems in biology and health sciences.

Required skills for lab members include basic UNIX/Linux competency and programming ability (preferably in Python). Coursework or project experience in machine learning and/or deep learning is highly preferred.

Prospective students, please apply directly to the CCMB or CS graduate programs at Brown and mention me in your application (no e-mails please!).

If you are at Brown and interested in joining the lab or a researcher interested in collaborating with us, please e-mail ritambhara@brown.edu.

Interested students at Brown are highly recommended to attend my Deep Learning in Genomics course in the Fall (CSCI 2952-G) or Deep Learning course in the Spring (CSCI 1470/2470).

Lab Members

Ritambhara Singh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Data Science

Ph.D. Students

Jiaqi Zhang
Computer Science
Atishay Jain
Computer Science
Ghulam Murtaza
Computer Science
Michal Golovanevsky
(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science
Amina Abdullahi
(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science
Hyeyeon Hwang
(Co-advisor: Nikos Tapinos)
Computational Biology
Whitney Sloneker
(Co-advisor: Lorin Crawford)
Computational Biology
Ananya Pavuluri
(Co-advisor: Erica Larschan)
Computational Biology
Tuan Pham
(Co-advisor: Erica Larschan)
Computational Biology

Masters Students

Zhirui Li
Data Science
Yuqi Lei
Computer Science
Nikolai Stambler
Data Science Practicuum

Undergraduate Students

Akira Nair
Manav Chakravarthy
Wangdrak Dorji
Jay Gopal
Eva Schiller
Mikayla Walsh
IISAGE REU Program
Colin Baker
Summer 2023 UTRA
Byron Butaney
Nicholas Kim

Research Assistants

Hardy Bright
M.S in Data Science

Visiting Students

Sara Nath
Gatton Academy Research Intern

Former Lab Members

Doctoral Students
Pinar Demetci (Co-advisor: Sorin Istrail) [CompBio] → Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at Broad Institute
Jeremy Bigness (Co-advisor: Erica Larschan) [CompBio] → Research Scientist at Agilent
Rebecca Santorella (Sandstede Lab) [APMA] → Data Scientist at OM1

Masters’ Students
Adam Berkley (CS) → Associate Professional Staff at John Hopkins University
Camillo Saueressig (CS Concurrent MS) → TUM-LMU Medical program (Germany)
Suchen Zheng (CS) → Graduate student at Yale University

Undergraduate Students
Shalin Patel → Software and Quantitative Engineer at GTS
Nitya Thakkar → Graduate student at Stanford University
Yuan Pu → Post Graduate Research Assistant at Yale University
Alexander Le → Software Engineer at Amazon
Momoka Kobayashi
David (Inho Lee)
Sally Zhi (Class ’22) → Software Engineer at Google
Jordan Idehen (Class ’22) → Software Engineer at Spotify
Madeline Hughes (Class ’22) → Post Graduate Research Assistant at Microsoft Research
Hossam Zaki (Class ’22) → Brown University Medical School
Justin Sanders (Class ’22) → Graduate student at University of Washington
Muhammad Haider Asif (Class ’22) → Software Engineer at Microsoft
Shreya D’Souza (Class ’21) → Information Systems Associate at Amgen
Ishaani Kahtri (Class ’21) → Brown University Medical School
Xavier Loinaz (Class ’21) → Post Graduate Research Assistant at Broad Institute
Lucas Paulo de Lima (Class ’21) → University of Cambridge Medical School
Giselle Garcia (Class ’21) → Software Engineer at Capital One
Elliot Kang (Class ’20) → Software Engineer at Palantir

Visiting Students and Research Assistants
Thulasi Varatharajan (University of Pittsburgh): Leadership Alliance Summer Research – Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) 2021

Carmen Boyan (Classical High School, Providence RI) → Undergraduate student at Stanford University

Location

We are located at the Center of Computational Molecular Biology (3rd Floor, 164 Angell Street)