Our research lab develops machine learning methods with the goals of data integration and model interpretation for biological and biomedical applications.
First Row (Left to Right): Whitney Sloneker, Hyeyeon Hwang, Ritambhara Singh, Winston Li,
Mikayla Walsh, Jennifer Chen, Amina Abdullahi, Byron Butaney
Second Row (Left to Right): Keya Kilachand, Michal Golovanevsky, Hannah Snell
Third Row (Left to Right): Ghulam Murtaza, Xilin Wang, Eric Han, Colin Baker, Pranav Mahableshwarkar,
Eva Schiller, Jiaqi Zhang, Ziqi Zhang
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!). Note that I am not recruiting new students during the 2025 admissions cycle.
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 (CSCI 2952-G) or the Deep Learning course (CSCI 1470/2470).
Lab Members
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Data Science
Ph.D. Students
Computer Science
Computer Science
(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science
(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science
(Co-advisor: Lorin Crawford)
Computational Biology
(Co-advisor: Erica Larschan)
Computational Biology
(Co-advisor: Erica Larschan)
Computational Biology
(Co-advisor: Sohini Ramachandran)
Computational Biology
(Primary Advisor: Ying Ma)
Computational Biology
Computer Science
Masters Students
M.S in Computer Science
M.S in Computer Science
M.S in Computer Science
M.S in Biotechnology
Undergraduate Students
Research Assistants
M.S in Data Science
Medical Students
Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Visiting Students
Moravian University
exploreCSR 2025 Program
M.S in Data Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Leadership Alliance’s SR-EIP program
Haverford College
The Leadership Alliance’s SR-EIP program
Former Lab Members
Doctoral Students
Ghulam Murtaza [CS] → Postdoctoral candidate at University of Washington
Hyeyeon Hwang (Co-advisor: Nikos Tapinos) [CompBio] → Research Scientist at Tinos Therapeutics Inc.
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 (Primary Advisor: Björn Sandstede) [APMA] → Data Scientist at OM1
Masters’ Students
Winston Li (CS)
Matthew Murakami (CS) → Research Edison at GE Aeropsace
Yuqi Lei (CS) → Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University
Zhirui Li (DSI) → Ph.D. student at University of Florida
Adam Berkley (CS) → Associate Professional Staff at John Hopkins University
Camillo Saueressig (CS Concurrent MS) → TUM-LMU Medical program (Germany)
Suchen Zheng (CS) → Ph.D. student at Yale University
Undergraduate Students
Xilin (Rice) Wang (Class ’25)
Bumjin Joo (Class ’25)
Pranav Mahableshwarkar (Class ’25)
Jennifer Chen (Class ’25)
Keya Kilachand (Class ’25)
Eric Han (Class ’25)
Sean Yu (Class ’25)
Hannah Beakley (Class ’25)
Byron Butaney (Class ’25)
Colin Baker (Class ’25)
Mikayla Walsh (Class ’25)
Eva Schiller (Class ’25)
Jay Gopal (Class ’25) → Medical Student at Brown Medical School
Akira Nair (Class ’24) → Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania
Wangdrak Dorji (Class ’24) → Masters student at Brown University
Manav Chakravarthy (Class ’24) → Masters student at Brown University
Shalin Patel (Class ’23) → Software and Quantitative Engineer at GTS
Nitya Thakkar (Class ’23) → Ph.D. student at Stanford University
Yuan Pu (Class ’23) → Post Graduate Research Assistant at Yale University
Alexander Le (Class ’23) → Software Engineer at Amazon
Momoka Kobayashi (Class ’23) → Software Engineer at Bloomberg
David (Inho) Lee (Class ’23) → Software Engineer at Google
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) → Ph.D. 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 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Idranne Mbah Ndum (Mount Holyoke College): exploreCSR 2025 Program
Thulasi Varatharajan (University of Pittsburgh): Leadership Alliance Summer Research – Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) 2021
Visiting High-School Students
Sara Nath (Gatton Academy, Bowling Green, KY) → Undergraduate student at MIT
Carmen Boyan (Classical High School, Providence RI) → Undergraduate student at Stanford University
Location
We are located at the Center of Computational Molecular Biology (Data Science Institute, 3rd Floor, 164 Angell Street)
Singh lab @ Brown 