Ideker Lab Alumni

The Ideker Laboratory has welcomed many researchers over the years -- ranging from undergraduates to research scientists. Below is a list of the lab's successful alumni and where they are now. 

*Alumni Profiles may not be up to date. Please submit updates to Ideker Admin.

Lab Alumni have received positions in . . .

Academia

• Maya Agarwal, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical Center
  
• Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor at University of California San Francisco 
  
• Alex Beckett, Undergraduate Student, UC San Diego
  
• Andreas Beyer, Professor, University of Cologne
  
• Nam Bui, Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Health Care
  
• Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Group Leader at Technical University of Dresden 
  
• Hannah Carter, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, UC San Diego
  
• Anne Carvunis, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg, School of Medicine 
  
• Mike Daly, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program
  
• Colleen J. Doherty, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, NC State University  
  
• Rob DeConde,  Medical School, UC San Diego
  
• Stephanie Fan, Program Manager, Computer Vision & Machine Learning, Amazon
  
• Merril Gersten, Chief Sci Officer, BioLineRx, Inc. 
  
• Joris van de Haar, PhD student, Netherlands Cancer Institute 
  
• Cameron Hines​, Emergency Medicine Res Assist Prg, Kern Medical Center
  
• Matan Hofree,  Postdoctoral Associate at Broad Institute  
  
• Justin Huang, Research Investigator in Systems Biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center
  
• Tim Hull, App Programmer/Analyst at University of Michigan
• Eric Jaehnig, Research Associate at Baylor College of Medicine, UCSF
• Michael Kramer, MD, PhD. Physician Scientist program at Washington University in St. Louis
  
• Eunjung (Alice) Lee,  Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
  
• Stina Mui Singel, MD PhD, Medical Director at Genentech 
  
• Koyel Mitra, Assistant Professor, UCSD
  
• Shamim Mollah (Bioinformaticist, Hospital Medical Science, Rockefeller University)
  
• Dan Pekin, Undergraduate Student, UC Santa Barbara
  
• Priti Talwar Ravanan, Assistant Director at Vellor Institute of Technology (VIT) University 
  
• Timothy Ravasi, Associate Professor at KAUST
  
• Rintaro Saito, Project Professor at Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University
  
• John Paul Y.C. Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  
• Dylan Skola, Graduate student, UC San Diego, Glass Lab
  
• Rohith Srivas, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, Mike Snyder Laboratory   
  
• Kai Tan, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa 
  
• Kevin Thai, Graduate Student at MIT 
  
• Chris Workman, Professor, Danish Technical University 
  
• Timothy Yoon, Undergraduate Student, UC San Diego
  
• Michael Yu, Research Professor at Toyota Technological Institute
  
• Christian Zmasek, Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at J. Craig Venter Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
  

Industry

• ​Gordon Bean, Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumnia
  
• Menzies Chen,  Senior Product Manager, Clinical Informatics at Illumina
  
• Han-Yu Chuang, Director, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics at Roche
  
• Wilbert Copeland, Scientist at Celgene
  
• Janusz Dutkowski, Founder and CEO, Data4Cure 
  
• Dorothea Emig, Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina
  
• Luke Fassino, Thermo Fisher Scientific 
  
• Cole Fassino, Thermo Fisher Scientific 
  
• Ana Luisa Flores-Bojorquez, Pfizer 
  
• Roza Ghamari, Software Engineer, Senior at Trifacta
  
• Andrew Gross, Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
  
• Gregory Hannum, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Synthetic Genomics
  
• Brian Hsu, Bioinformatics Engineer at Illumina
  
• Philipp Jaeger, Founder of BiocipherX, Inc. and Computational Biologist at Encodia, Inc.
  
• Dwight Kuo, Mendel Biotechnology
• Ryan Kelley,  Associate Director Bioinformatics at Illumina
  
• Sanath Ramesh, Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services
  
• Johannes Ruscheinski, Google
  
• Eric Sage, Production Engineer, Facebook 
  
• Ariel Schwartz, Director, Computational Biology at Synthetic Genomics 
  
• Taylor Sittler,  Co-Founder, Color Genomics. Adjunct Prof., UCSF
  
• Mike Smoot, Principal Software Engineer at Synthetic Genomics
  
• Silpa Suthram, Ph.D, Scientist in Computational Biology at FLX Bio., Inc
  
• Huwate (Kwat) Yeerna, Founder & CEO at Guardiome
  
• Fan Zhang, Scientist at Illumina 
  
• Wei Zhang, Senior Scientist, Computational Biology at Goldfinch Bio. 
  

Editorial

• Craig Mak​, Editor in Chief, Cell Systems
  

Other

• Barry Demchak, Retired
  
• Mark Anderson
  
• Justin Catalana, Founder of Fort Point Beer Company and Mill Valley Beerworks
• Hoda Feizi 
  
• Aude Guénolé 
  
• Emre Guney
  
• Kristin Klepper
  
• Atanas Kamburov
  
• Nerius Landys 
  
• Samad Lotia
  
• Colin Luo 
  
• Cameron McElfresh
  
• Scott McCuine 
  
• David Ochoa
  
• Nicholas Regent, Habitat Restoration Fellow at Save The Bay
  
• Peng-Liang Wang
  
• Lily Wong​
  
• Ailin Zhang
  
• Ziran Zhang
  
• Likitha Aradhyula
  
• Manisha Kapasiawala, Princeton (CSBC/PS-ON Summer Research Program, Summer 2018)
• ​​Cirara Black 
  
• George Armstrong, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, (Rotation, Fall 2018)
  
• Aaron Gary, Bioinformatics Engineer
• Simon Larsen, PhD Research Fellow, University of Southern Denmark
• Brett Settle, Programmer, Google