Postdocs

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Alessandro Zito 2024–present
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. Mutational Signatures.

Maria Sol Rosito, 2024–present
Familial Risk Modeling. Multi-cancer early detection.

Adolphus Wagala, 2023–present
Boolean Matrix Factorizations.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Andrea Arfè, 2019–2021 Joint with Lorenzo Trippa.
Now: Assistant Attending Biostatistician, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Adaptive clinical trials, multi-study analysis of real world data in clinical research.

Theo Huang, 2019–2022 Joint with Danielle Braun
Now: Principal Biostatistician at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Mendelian Risk Prediction, Genetic Epidemiology.

Marco Roncador, 2018–2019 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Resident Physician Scientist, University Hospital of Zürich, CH
Interests as a Postdoc: Multiple Myeloma Translational Genomics

Boyu Ren, 2017–2020
Now: Assistant Professor, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Interests as a Postdoc: Big Data in Health Care. Multi-study machine learning. Causal multi-study learning.

Prasad Patil, 2016–2019 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University.
Interests as a Postdoc: Multi-study Machine Learning, personalized medicine, genomic biomarker development, prediction, study reproducibility and replicability, data visualization.

Anil Aktas Samur, 2016–2021 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Scientist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Alternative splicing, multiple myeloma genomics.

Nathanael Fillmore, 2016–2018 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Associate Director for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC) Boston.
Interests as a Postdoc: Machine learning, medical informatics, multiple myeloma

David Mosen, 2015–2016 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: at Emhance, Bilbao
Interests as a Postdoc: Statistical analysis of high-throughput genomics; Genomic copy number analysis in cancer; Algorithmics and optimization problems

Alice Cleynen, 2014–2015 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Chargée de recherche CNRS, Institute Montpellierain Alexander Grothendiek, Montpeillier.
Interests as a Postdoc: Statistical genetics; Decision theory, survival analysis, model selection

Danielle Braun, 2013–2016
Now: Principal Research Scientist, Harvard Chan School of Public Health & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
Interests as a Postdoc: Precision prevention; inherited cancer syndromes; genetic testing; natural langual processing; measurement error, environmental epidemiology.

Mehmet Samur, 2013–2015 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Principal Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Interests as a Postdoc: Bioinformatics, Genomics and Computational Biology, Next generation sequencing and integrative data analysis. RNA biology and non-coding RNAs.

Naim Rashid, 2013–2014 Joint with Nikhil Munshi
Now: Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests as a Postdoc: High dimensional data analysis, genomics, statistical genetics, next generation sequencing data analysis, classification, variable selection in non-independent data

Steffen Ventz, 2013–2015 Joint with Lorenzo Trippa.
Now: Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.
Interests as a Postdoc: Adaptive clinical trials, next generation sequencing methodology.

Reuma Admanit, 2012–2015 Shared Mentoring with Becky Gelman
Now: Senior Research Scientist at FM Global, Boston
Interests as a Postdoc: Ovarian cancer prognosis, AIDS research

Cristian Tomasetti, 2011–2013
Now: Director, Center for Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Monitoring, City of Hope
Interests as a Postdoc: Mathematical modeling of cancer evolution, drug resistance, stem cell dynamics.

Levi Waldron, 2010–2013 Joint with Curtis Huttenhower
Now: Professor and Department Chairperson, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY SPH.
Interests as a Postdoc: Translational bioinformatics, high-throughput molecular epidemiology, cross-study replicabiilty of predictions.

Emanuele Mazzola, 2010–2012 Shared Mentoring with Donna Neuberg
Now: Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Interests as a Postdoc: Micorsimulation Models; Bayesian models for disease incidence and progression.

Victoria Wang, 2009–2011
Now: Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Interests as a Postdoc: Cancer genome projects. Cross-platform genomic integration. Ovarian cancer prognosis using high throughput data.

Lorenzo Trippa, 2009–2011
Now: Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health
Interests as a Postdoc: Bayesian Nonparametrics, Familial Cancer Risk Prediction, Adaptive Clinical Trials

Jie Ding, 2008–2013 Joint with Mike Ochs
Now: Senior Principal Data Scientist at PinkDx.
Interests as a Postdoc: Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Variable Selection. Statistical genomics.

Svitlana Tyekucheva, 2008–2011
Now: Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Interests as a Postdoc: High dimensional data analysis. DNA sequence data analysis. Gene set analysis.

Corinne Joshu, 2008–2009 Joint with Elizabeth Platz
Now: Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Interests as a Postdoc: Colorectal Cancer Risk and Screening.

Jeff Leek, 2008–2009
Now: Vice President, Chief Data Officer, and J. Orin Edson Foundation Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Interests as a Postdoc: Microarray data analysis. False Discovery Rates. Cancer classification. Replicability.

Loris Mularoni, 2008–2009
Now: Bioinformatics Specialist at CMR[B] Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona
Interests as a Postdoc: Sequence data analysis. Transposon biology.

Sierra Li, 2006–2008
Now: Associate Research Professor, City of Hope Cancer Center
Interests as a Postdoc: Cancer bioinformatics. Bayesian modeling and variable selection.

Betty Doan, 2005–2009
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Interests as a Postdoc: Colorectal cancer screening models. Risk prediction in familial syndromes.
Causal inference in linkage analysis.

Suraj Peri, 2005–2007
Now: Assistant Research Professor, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Interests as a Postdoc: Cancer genomics, gene expression databases and annotation, alternative splicing.

Luigi Marchionni, 2005–2007
Now: Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
Interests as a Postdoc: Computational Pathology. Genomics. Transcriptome analysis. Breast and Ovarian cancer. Gene set analysis.

YuChuan Tai, 2005–2007
Now: Statistician, Roche, Pleasanton
Interests as a Postdoc: Gene expression data analysis, longitudinal data, genetic epidemiology, changepoint models.

Marcel Dettling, 2004–2006
Now: Group Lead in Data Analysis and Statistics, Zuercher Hochschule, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Interests as a Postdoc: Genomics. Clustering and classification algorithms. Gene interactions.

Qiushan Tao, 2005–2006
Interests as a Postdoc: Epidemiology and Genomics. Reproducibility of Bayesian networks. Integrative correlation.

Jiangwen Zhang, 2003–2005
Now: Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Interests as a Postdoc: Gene expression. Fat synthesis genes. Predictors of response to chemotherapy in cancer.

Sining Chen, 2002–2005
Now: Director of Data Science at Warner Music Group; Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Interests as a Postdoc: Genetic epidemiology, gene-environment interactions. Cancer susceptibility prediction. Bayesian models, diagnostic testing, errors in response. Imaging.