Master of Science Degrees: Alumni Career Paths & Recent Graduates
M.S. in Computational Biology | M.S. in Biological Sciences
Career paths of M.S. graduates of the Department of Biological Sciences have led to research, teaching, and administrative positions at renowned academic institutions. Graduates are also leaders in industry and government.
M.S. in Computational Biology
2012 Graduates
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Akanksha Bhardwaj
David Hamilton
Yutong Li
Songdet Nillasithanukroh
Jinxue Zhou
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2011 Graduates
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Walter J. Lewis
Modeling Gene Expression: Understanding the Effects of Transcription Factor Binding Site Arrangement on Gene Expression in the Sea Star
Advisor: Dr. Veronica Hinman
Anish Chakka
Naveen Chandramohan
William Foran
Postgraduate Plans: Data Coordinator/Analyst at UPMC's Department of Psychiatry, Neurocognitive Development Lab
Ajay Harikrishna
Philip Davidson
A Method for Identifying Conformational Sub-states in Monte Carlo Simulations of Proteins with Applications to Decoy Detection and the Analysis of Conformational Landscapes
Postgraduate Plans: Ph.D. in Biological Sciences Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Xian Feng
Visualizing Virus Self-assembly Simulation with GPU Acceleration
Advisor: Russell S. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Postgraduate Plans: Research Programmer in the Schwartz lab at Carnegie Mellon
Jesse Stokum
Functional Network Connectivity in Patients with Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Advisors: William H. Theodore, M.D. and William D. Gaillard, M.D., NIH
Postgraduate Plans: University of Maryland M.D/Ph.D. Program
Jorge A. Vendries Algarin
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2010 Graduates
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Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
James Dang
Vardhan Dharnidharka
Postgraduate Plans: Financial Software Developer, Bloomberg LP
Swetha Garimalla
Postgraduate Plans: Bioinformatics Specialist, University of Arkansas
Rupinder Khandpur
Fast Parameter Synthesis in Agent-based Models Using Abstraction Refinement
Advisor: Christopher J. Langmead, Ph.D.
Postgraduate Plans: Research Programmer in the Schwartz lab at Carnegie Mellon
Cheng-Neng Ko
Postgraduate Plans: Financial Software Developer, Bloomberg LP
M. Senthil Kumar
The Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Self-Assembly Systems
Advisors: Russell S. Schwartz, Ph.D. and Markus Deserno, Ph.D.
Soumya Luthra
Postgraduate Plans: University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Shannon Quinn
Waldo: A Framework for Inferring Protein Location as a Function of Condition
Advisor: Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D.
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. in Computational Biology program
Chuang Wu
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2009 Graduates
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Arshi Arora
Postgraduate Plans: Health Sciences Fellow in the Faeder lab at the University of Pittsburgh
Ivan Cao-berg
SLML Level 1.0: Communicating Subcellular Location Protein Patterns for Systems Biology
Advisor: Robert Murphy
Jen-Hao Cheng
Katherine D'Aco
Association Testing Using Local SNP Phylogenies
Advisor: Russell Schwartz
Joshua Earl
Postgraduate Plans: Director of Bioinformatics at the Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny General Hospital
Donghun Lee
Postgraduate Plans: Princeton University, Ph.D. Program
Yaw Nti-Addae
Inferring Gene Interactions in Lung and Breast Cancers Through Gene Regulatory Networks Assisted by Prior Knowledge
Advisor: Russell Schwartz
Postgraduate Plans: Scientific Analyst, Dow AgroSciences
Vamsee Pillalamarri
Balamuruganand Selvaraj
Postgraduate Plans: Computational Biology Analyst in the Flybase group at Indiana University, Bloomington
Irtisha Singh
Systems and Structural Biology in HIV-1 Drug Discovery
Advisor: Judith Klein Seetharaman
Postgraduate Plans: Bioinformatics Analyst, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh. She will begin the Ph.D. program in computational biology and medicine brought together by Cornell University, Weil Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the fall of 2011.
Rohini Sinha
Postgraduate Plans: Bioinformatician at the University of Pennsylvania
Gregory Smith
Postgraduation Plans: Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Program
Shreedharan Sriram
Postgraduate Plans: Computational Biologist at Dow Agrosciences
Arpit Tandon
Numerical Modeling of the Immune Cell Deformation Caused by the Anti-cancer Compound Paclitaxel
Advisor: Ivan Viktorovich Maly, University of Pittsburgh
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2008 Graduates
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Lindy Briggs
Jessica McGillen
Differential Equations Modeling of Long-term HIV Infection in Untreated Patients
Advisor: Shlomo Ta'asan
Postgraduate Plans: Oxford University, Ph.D. Program
Yongjin Park
Gene Expression Analyses by Statistical Learning Methods
Advisor: Russell S. Schwartz
Dmitriy Patek
Ayush Raman
Postgraduate Plans: Bioinformatics Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology
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2007 Graduates
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Aaron Huttner
Robert Montgomery
Postgraduate Plans: Venter Institute
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2006 Graduates
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Amina Abdullah
Jacob Joseph
Postgraduate Plans: Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
Aly Khan
Postgraduate Plans: Columbia University
Prateek Kumar
Postgraduate Plans: Venter Institute
Bormi Shin
Swapnil Upganlawar
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2005 Graduates
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Ka-Young An
Akshay Lalla
Postgraduate Plans: Celerant Consulting
Peter M. Zullo
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2004 Graduates
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Neil Christopher
Alexander Mandel
Kiran Raju Penumacha
Joyce Wei
Peter Zullo
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2001 Graduates
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Akira Hasegawa
Edward Roques
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M.S. in Biological Sciences
2012 Graduates
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Andrew Markham
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2011 Graduates
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Mark Deblois
James Hughes
Sailatha Ravi
Nathan Hsu
Ashita Magal Prakash
Jesse J. Sheehan
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2010 Graduates
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Megha Kapur
Joseph King
Postgraduate Plans: Teaching life sciences at West Point Military Academy
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2009 Graduates
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Saksham Chandra
Postgraduate Plans: Ph.D. Program in Statistics at Penn State University
Nicole Marthaler
Postgraduate Plans: Science Writing
Mohammed Qureshi
Postgraduate Plans: Ph.D. Program at Kent State University
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2008 Graduates
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Margarida Nunes Ferreira Silva Coelho Rodrigues dos Anjos
Dara Brown
Postgraduate Plans: University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine
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2007 Graduates
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Christopher Fried
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2006 Graduates
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Yanhua Hu
Arun Krishnaswamy
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2005 Graduates
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Jeong-Ah Kwon
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2004 Graduates
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Nicole R. Brandon
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2002 Graduates
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Sugunda Sharma
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2000 Graduates
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Lisa Hennen
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