The Lab & Other Team Members

Current Lab Members

Please note that many students collaborate, work on projects I mentor, or are otherwise affilliated with the lab. There are too many to list all of them, so I focus here on full time lab members leading research projects. Please don't feel left out if you've been left off!

Benjamin Smarr is an assistant professor in the department of Bioengineering, with a 50% appointment to the Halicioglu Data Science Institute. He seeks to accelerate positive social change enabled by the advent of abundant human time series data.

Dr. Lauryn (Keeler) Bruce earned her PhD in the Biomedical Informatics and Systems Biology program in my lab in 2024. She is now a postdoctoral researcher collaborating with myself and Dr. Barbara Parry on pregnancy related health issues, and supporting real world women's health analyses for the Gates Foundation. She previously worked in a clinical oncology diagnostics lab as a Bioinformatics Scientist. Lauryn manages a large team of women's health researchers, leading diverse efforts involving wearables, clinical records, and new trials. Her work using data to validate the inclusion of women in biomedical research has been featured in the Washington Post.

Severine Soltani is a PhD student in the Biomedical Informatics program. She is developing tools for detecting environmental perturbations on individual's physiology, to allow for broad, passive detection of pollutants and related risk factors.

Jamie Burks is a PhD student in the Bioengineering program. He joined with a background in signal processing, and is developing tools for systematic identification of derived features for high dimensional classification in biological time series.

Conan Minihan is a PhD student in Data Science. He is working to develop educational tools to ease adoption of STEM and personal science by formerly incarcerated communities. He is also researching PTSD.

Caden Stewart is a PhD student in Data Science. He is working on health AIs in the context of mental illness detection and classification, as well as to aid clinical work flows for practicing MDs.

Of course, being academic, everyone leaves in the end. Lest we forget, here is a list of past lab members.