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
2013 Graduates
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Sheila Chandran
Sunguk Choi
Jay Embry
Pyrrolysine-containing Methyltransferase Genes in Archaea & Bacteria
Advisor: Dannie Durand, Ph.D.
Student in the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Divya Kagoo
Sirisha Penumetcha
Max Tomlinson
Nitesh Turaga
Yue Yu
Software Quality Engineer at Microstrategy
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2012 Graduates
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Collin McCormack
Simulating Multidomain Evolution
Advisor: Dannie Durand, Ph.D.
Programmer Analyst at Boeing
Akanksha Bhardwaj
Data Scientist at Adometry in Austin, Texas
David Hamilton
Software Engineer at Windows Division, Microsoft in Redmond, Washington
Yutong Li
Quality Engineer at Microstrategy in Tysons Corner, Virginia
Songdet Nillasithanukroh
Software Engineer at TripAdvisor in Boston
Jinxue Zhou
Software Engineer at NetApp in Pittsburgh
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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: Veronica Hinman, Ph.D.
Anish Chakka
Senior Software Developer at Dr. Uma Chandran's Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
Naveen Chandramohan
Sequencing Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California
William Foran
Data Coordinator/Analyst at Neurocognitive Development Lab, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Ajay Harikrishna
Application Developer at Highmark in Pittsburgh
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
Student in the 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.
Research Programmer at Dr. Russell Schwartz's Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
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
Student in the M.D./Ph.D. Program at the University of Maryland
Sriram Venugopal
Software Development Engineer at Amazon formerly at Audax Health
Jorge A. Vendries Algarin
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2010 Graduates
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Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian
James Dang
Vardhan Dharnidharka
Financial Software Developer at Bloomberg LP
Swetha Garimalla
Bioinformatics Specialist at the University of Arkansas
Rupinder Khandpur
Fast Parameter Synthesis in Agent-based Models Using Abstraction Refinement
Advisor: Christopher J. Langmead, Ph.D.
Research Programmer at Dr. Russell Schwartz's Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Cheng-Neng Ko
Financial Software Developer at 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
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.
Student in the Ph.D. in Computational Biology Program at Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh
Chuang Wu
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2009 Graduates
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Arshi Arora
Health Sciences Fellow at the Faeder Lab, 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
Director of Bioinformatics at the Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny General Hospital
Donghun Lee
Student in the Ph.D. Program at Princeton University
Yaw Nti-Addae
Inferring Gene Interactions in Lung and Breast Cancers Through Gene Regulatory Networks Assisted by Prior Knowledge
Advisor: Russell Schwartz
Scientific Analyst at Dow AgroSciences
Vamsee Pillalamarri
Balamuruganand Selvaraj
Computational Biology Analyst at Flybase Group, Indiana University in Bloomington
Irtisha Singh
Systems and Structural Biology in HIV-1 Drug Discovery
Advisor: Judith Klein Seetharaman
Student in the Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Medicine Program at Cornell University, Weil Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center formerly a Bioinformatics Analyst at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh.
Rohini Sinha
Bioinformatician at the University of Pennsylvania
Gregory Smith
Candidate in the Ph.D. in Biological Sciences Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Shreedharan Sriram
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
Student in the Ph.D. Program at Oxford University
Yongjin Park
Gene Expression Analyses by Statistical Learning Methods
Advisor: Russell S. Schwartz
Dmitriy Patek
Ayush Raman
Bioinformatics Scientist at the Institute for Systems Biology
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2007 Graduates
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Aaron Huttner
Robert Montgomery
Venter Institute
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2006 Graduates
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Amina Abdullah
Jacob Joseph
Candidate in the Ph.D. in Computational Biology Program at Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh
Aly Khan
Columbia University
Prateek Kumar
Venter Institute
Bormi Shin
Swapnil Upganlawar
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2005 Graduates
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Ka-Young An
Akshay Lalla
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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Stephanie Hughes
Cassandra Priddy
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
Life Sciences Instructor at West Point Military Academy
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2009 Graduates
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Saksham Chandra
Student in Ph.D. in Statistics Program at Penn State University
Nicole Marthaler
Science Writing
Mohammed Qureshi
Student in the 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
Student at the 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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Industry, Government or
Academic Research (Non-faculty)
Further Education