ZOMORRODI LAB ALUMNI
Graduate students
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Elie Eshoa
Master’s and undergraduate student
Computer Science
Harvard University
6/2021 – 6/2024
Elie worked with us on the development of an optimization-based method for engineering mathematical games
Current position: Core Development Program at InterSystems
Email: elieeshoa@college.harvard.edu
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Siqi Du
Master’s student
Computational Science and Engineering
Harvard University
11/2022 – 12/2023
Siqi worked with us on the development of machine learning models to analyze human microbiomes.
Current position: Data Scientist at Amazon
Email: sdu27@outlook.com
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Kevin Liu
Master’s student
Biomedical Informatics
Harvard Medical School
1/2023 – 12/2023
Kevin worked with us on his capstone project focused on the computational modeling of microbiota metabolism in celiac disease
Current position: Clinical Research Consultant, Zhongke Jiadi Biomedical Technology Co.
Email: kliu@hms.harvard.edu
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Jinglun Li
Master’s student
Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11/2022 – 09/2023
Jinglun worked with us on the statistical analysis of compositional macrobiotic data
Current position: PhD student at Washington University, St Louis.
Email: jinglun@wustl.edu
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Naneh R. Vartan
Master’s student
Medical Sciences Program
Boston University
02/2022 – 08/2023
Naneh worked with us on her thesis focused on defining a healthy gut microbiome
Email: naneh.vartan@gmail.com
Medical students
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ilong Peng
MD student
Pathways program
Harvard Medical School
02/2022 – 09/2022
Yilong worked with us on investigating the role of microbiome in bile acids metabolism.
Email: yilong_peng@hms.harvard.edu
Undergraduate students
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Ivan Duran
Undergraduate researcher
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard FAS
09/2020 – 12/2023
Ivan worked with us on building predictive models of celiac disease onset using machine learning
Current position: Senior Data Scientist at HSBC
Email: ivandubar1@gmail.com
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Matthew Miyasaka
Undergraduate Researcher
Economics – Pre-med track
Harvard College
01/2021 – 08/2023
Matthew worked with us on the computational modeling of host-microbiota interactions in colorectal cancer
Email: mmiyasaka@college.harvard.edu
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Jayanth (Jay) Pratap
Undergraduate Researcher
Chemical & Physical Biology & Computer Science
Harvard College
2/2021 – 8/2022
Jay worked with us on designing machine learning classifiers using microbiomic dat
Email: jaypratap@college.harvard.edu
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Angela Li
Undergraduate researcher
Applied Mathematics/Statistics – Pre-med track
Harvard FAS
Angela worked with us on the development of statistical and computational approaches for the analysis of short-read and long-read microbiome sequencing data
Email: ayli@college.harvard.edu
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Sarah Bluhm
Co-op student, Biology, Northeastern University
8/2021 – 6/2022
Sarah worked with us on the long-read amplicon and metagenomic sequencing for microbiome profiling
Current position: Master’s student at Aalto University, Finland
Email: bluhm.sa@northeastern.edu
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Katerina Nasto
Undergraduate researcher, Neuroscience,
Harvard College
6/2021 – 6/2022
Katerian worked with us on the construction of integrated biological network models
Email: katerinanasto@college.harvard.eduu
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Maya Rayle
Undergraduate researcher, Harvard FAS
6/2020 -2/2022
Maya worked with us on the integrated modeling of microbial ecosystems using evolutionary game theory and metabolic networks
Current position: Master’s student at UW-Madison
Email: mayarayle@college.harvard.edu
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Analeigha Colarusso
Undergraduate researcher, Tufts University
6/2020 – 8/2021
Analeigha worked with us on the computational modeling of host-microbiota interactions in celiac disease
Email: analeigha.colarusso@tufts.edu
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Eva Ottom
Undergraduate researcher, Boston College
9/2020 – 6/2021
Eva worked with us on the construction of integrated metabolic and gene expression models for macrophages
Current position: Graduate student in Chemical Engineering at UC-Riverside
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Arnav Srivastava
Undergraduate researcher, Harvard SEAS
Summer 2020
Arnav worked with us on predicting celiac disease onset using microbiomic data and machine learning
Email: arnavsrivastava@college.harvard.edu
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Mahmoud Abouelkheir
MGH Digestive Disease
Summer Research Fellow
Summer 2020
Mahmoud worked with us on the computational investigation of the effect of microbially-derived metabolites on macrophage polarization
Current position: Graduate student in Chemical Biology at Johns Hopkins University