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

Clockwise: Jeremy Bigness, Pinar Demetci, Ritambhara Singh, Michal Golovanevsky, Amina Abdullahi, Hyeyeon Hwang, Jiaqi Zhang, Atishay Jain, Ghulam Murtaza, Haider Asif, Hossam Zaki, Madeline Hughes, Justin Sanders.
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

Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Ph.D. Students

(Co-advisor: Erica Larschan)
Computational Biology

(Sandstede Lab)
Applied Mathematics

(Co-advisor: Sorin Istrail)
Computational Biology

Computer Science

Computer Science

Computer Science

(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science

(Co-advisor: Carsten Eickhoff)
Computer Science

(Primary advisor: Nikos Tapinos)
Computational Biology
Undergraduate Students

(Summer UTRA ’20 Awardee)



(Spring UTRA ’22 Awardee)

(Senior Honors Thesis)


(Summer UTRA SPRINT ’21 Awardee, Senior Honors Thesis)

(Senior Honors Thesis)


(Senior Honors Thesis)




Former Lab Members
Masters’ Students
Adam Berkley (CS) → Associate Professional Staff at John Hopkins University
Camillo Saueressig (Concurrent CS MS degree program)
Suchen Zheng (CS) → Research Assistant at Yale University
Undergraduate Students
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
Thulasi Varatharajan (University of Pittsburgh): Leadership Alliance Summer Research – Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) 2021
Location
We are located at the Center of Computational Molecular Biology (3rd Floor, 164 Angell Street)