Associate or Postdoctoral Research Scientists

• Casey Ta, PhD, 10/2017-
• Gongbo Zhang, PhD, 05/2023-
• Shiyi Jiang, PhD, 02/2025-

Pre-doctoral Students

• Yilu Fang, MA, 09/2022-
• Fangyi Chen, MS, 04/2023-
• Daniel Liang, BS, 09/2026-

Medical Fellows/Clinicians

• Jordan G. Nestor, MD, 01/2015-

Master Degree Students

• Mengsha Tan, 01/2026-
• Jui-Hsuan Hou, 02/2026-

Undergraduate Students

• Nouha Oueslati, 03/2026-

Postdoctoral Trainees in Biomedical Informatics
-- Academia --

• Cong Liu, PhD, 01/2018-06/2024, currently an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School
• Meng Zhao, PhD, 01/2024-12/2024, currently an assistant professor at Leigh University
• Hao Liu, PhD, 06/2020-05/2023, currently an assistant professor at the School of Computing, Montclair State University
• Yingcheng Sun, PhD, 01/2020-06/2022, currently an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Jaehyun Kim, PhD, 08/2019-02/2021, currently an assistant professor at Jeonbuk National University in Korea
• Andrew Goldstein, MD, 09/2015-08/2018, currently a Scholar-track Assistant Professor, New York University
• Anando Sen, PhD, 07/2015-08/2017, currently an Associate Research Scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Julia Hoxha, PhD, 10/2014-10/2016, currently a researcher in Germany
• Zhe He, 2014-2015, currently a tenured Associate Professor at Florida State University
• Riccardo Miotto, 2012-2014, currently an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai Medical School
• Tony Hao, 2013-2014, currently a tenured Professor in China
• Casey Overby, 2011-2013, currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University
• Alex Rusanov, 2012-2013, currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University
• Zhihui Luo, 2009-2012, currently a tenured Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• Solomon Berhe, 2011-2012, currently an Assistant Professor in Software Engineering at the University of the Pacific
• Di Zhao, 2010-2011, currently an Associate Professor of Chinese Academy of Science, Advanced Computing Center
• Xiaoying Wu, 2010, currently a tenured Associate Professor at Wuhan University, China
• Taxiarchis Botsis, 2008-2009, currently an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University

-- Industry --

• Zhehuan Chen, PhD, 08/2020-12/2021, currently a Software Developer at Audible Inc.
• Fabricio Kury, MD, 07/2018-06/2019, currently a Scientist at Regeneron Inc.
• Barnett Chiu, PhD, 09/2016-10/2018, currently a Data Scientist at Mount Sinai Health System
• Shreya Chakrabarti, PhD, 08/2015-03/2017, currently a Data Scientist at Amazon Inc.
• Praveen Chandar, 2014-2015, currently a staff researcher at IBM Research
• Junfeng Gao, 2012, currently a scientific consultant for Purdue Pharma L.P.

Medical Fellow/Clinicians

• Betina Ross Idnay, PhD, 09/2022-09/2025, currently a Clinical Solutions Architect at Anterior Health
• Ali Soroush, MD, MS, 03/2021-05/2023, currently an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Andrew Geneslaw, MD, 01/2022-2024
• Elizabeth Park, MD, 2022-2024
• Dylan Kim, 01/2023-2024
• Emily Gordon, 04/2023-2024
• Matthew E. Spotnitz, MD, MPH, 05/2023-2024

Doctoral Degree Graduates

• James (Jimmy) Rogers, 2017-2021, currently an Associate Principal Scientist at Merck, Inc.
• Tian Kang, 2014-2021, currently a Machine Learning Scientist at Tempus Labs, Inc.
• Alex Butler, 2019-2020, currently a Resident Physician at Boston Children's Hospital
• Gregory W. Hruby, 2011-2016, currently a Data Scientist at Mount Sinai Health System
• Daniel Fort (co-advising w Adam Wilcox), 2013-2014, currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
• Nicole Weiskopf, 2009-2014, currently a tenure Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University

Master Degree Graduates in Biomedical Informatics

• Cindy Chen, 01/2024-05/2025, thesis: Comparison between Clinicians and Generative AI for Schema-based Meta-Analysis: A Case Study
• Junyoung Kim, 01/2022-02/2025, thesis: Assessing the utility of large language models for phenotype-driven gene prioritization in the diagnosis of rare genetic disease
• Ziran Li, MD, 09/2017-05/2019, thesis: Prediction of clinical trial recruitment
• Xinhang Li, MS, 09/2017-05/2019, thesis: Error analysis for biomedical named entity recognition
• Olga Lyudovyk, MS, 01/2018-05/2019, thesis: Pathway analysis for cancer subtyping
• Weiqi Zhang, 09/2016-05/2018, thesis: A knowledge base for drugs
• Yixuan Guo, 01/2016-01/2017, thesis: An Automated CDM Data Query Generator
• Tian Kang, 2014-2016, thesis: EliXR-CDM: An Open-Source Common Data Model-based Machine Learning Parser for Clinical Research Eligibility Criteria
• Mathew Paulson, 2013-2015, thesis: Desiderata for Major Eligibility Criteria in Breast Cancer Trials
• Handong Ma, 2013-2015, thesis: Prediction of Black Box Warning by Mining Patterns of Convergent Focus Shift in Clinical Trial Study Populations Using Linked Public Data
• Clair Gordon, 2013-2015, thesis: Combining Expert Knowledge and Knowledge Automatically Acquired from Electronic Data Sources for Continued Ontology Evaluation and Improvement
• Mary Boland, 2010-2012, thesis: Discovering Medical Conditions Associated with Periodontitis Using Linked Electronic Health Records
• Yuan Zhang, 2010-2012, thesis: Using Electronic Data To Profile Population Health and Identify Clinical Evidence Gaps: Towards Precision Clinical Research Design
• Steven Mark, 2008-2010, thesis: Visualization of Medical Entities Dictionary
• Fei Chen, 2007-2009, thesis: Secondary Use of EHR: Data Quality Issues and Informatics Opportunities
• Craig, 2007-2008

Master Degree Graduates in Other Fields

• Hassen Saleh, 09/2021-12/2022
• Mutong Wu, 01/2022-12/2022
• Yang Zhao, 01/2022-12/2022
• Ali Turfah, 2020-2021, currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan
• Fengyang Lin, 2020-2021, currently a PhD student at Cornell University
• Jiaqi Tang, 2020
• Qingyin Ge, 2020, currently a PhD student at the National University of Singapore
• Ziheng Zhou, 2020
• Youlan Tang, 2016
• Elhaam Borhanian, 2014
• Bo Hu, 2013

Undergraduate Students

• Daniel Liang, 06/2024-12/2025
• Edward Sun, 06/2024-09/2024
• Sean Ginsberg, 06/2021-12/2022
• Chian Hui Whitney Deng, 01/2022-12/2022
• Jane Pan, 09/2020-06/2021
• Ibrahim Diallo, 07/2019-08/2019
• Katherine Wang, 06/2019-08/2019
• Ben Webb, 06/2019-08/2019
• Hollis Mills, 01/2017-05/2018

Research Staff

• Yilu Fang, 05/2020-08/2022, currently a PhD student at Columbia University
• Junghwan (Jay) Lee, 01/2019-06/2022, currently a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Youlan Tang, 2019-?, currently a Hospitalist at Day Kimball Healthcare
• Chi Yuan, 12/2016-12/2018, currently a lecturer at Hohai University, China
• David Fasel, 09/2016-05/2019, currently an informatics director at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Anil Yaman, 2013-2015, currently a PhD student in the Eindhoven University of Technology and INCAS
• Yat So, 2012-?, currently a programmer at Columbia CTSA

Collaborating Students

• Betina Ross Idnay, School of Nursing, 01/2020-08/2022
• Latoya Stewart, School of Medicine, 04/2020-12/2022

High School Student

• Charlotte Zelin, 07/2023-09/2023
• Bridget Zelin, 03/2022-09/2022
• Rohan Nidumbur, 07/2022-08/2022