Current Group
(In order of appearance in the group)
Eugene Davydov, PhD student, Computer Science.
Marina Sirota, PhD student, BMI. Marina is a student of Atul Butte, and collaborates with our group.
Bob Edgar, Visiting Scientist, Stanford University. Bob has been visiting our group meetings, and collaborates on protein alignment and other projects.
Sam Gross, PhD student, Computer Science.
Leticia Britos, PhD student, Developmental Biology. Leticia is a student of Lucy Shapiro and Serafim is her co-advisor.
Marc Schaub , PhD student, Computer Science.
Sarah Aerni, PhD student, BMI.
Anshul Kundaje , postdoc, joint with Arend Sidow.
Jesse Rodriguez , PhD student, BMI .
Tiffany Chen , PhD student, BMI.
Dmitri Pushkarev , PhD student, Physics. Dmitri is a joint student with Steve Quake.
Max Libbrecht , undergraduate, Computer Science.
Dan Newburger , PhD student, BMI.








These are some photos from Venice, where we attended RECOMB 2006. Andreas, Leticia, Sam, Serafim, Tom, Sam, Serafim, Olga, Tony, George, Andreas, Eugene, Marina, Tom, George, Dan, Serafim, Andreas, Olga, Tony, Eugene, Andreas, Olga, Balaji, Eugene, George, Tom, Dan. Yes, we are attending the conference, as one of the pictures proves.
This photo was taken (automatically) by Manolis Kellis, when he hosted us for dinner during RECOMB 2005. From left to right and then top to bottom: Tony, Andreas, Phuong, Eugene F., George, Leticia, Manolis, Olga, Marina, Dan W., Balaji, Tom, Serafim, Eugene D., Angelita. Thanks, Manoli!
Alumni and Former Group Members
Sanket Malde, Masters student, Fall '02.
Mike Kim, PhD student, Bioinformatics, UCSF. Independent research, Spring '02.
Allison Waugh, PhD student, BMI. Rotation Fall '01-Winter '02, in collaboration with Stuart Kim.
Aswath Manohar, Visiting undergraduate student, Summer '03.
Hank Tu, Visiting undergraduate student, Summer '03.
Rong Xu, Masters student, Computer Science, Fall '03.
Lucinda Southworth, PhD student, BMI. Rotation Spring '04.
Mahathi Sai Prasanna Mahabhashyam, Masters student, Computer Science, Fall '03 - Spring '04.
Gauhar Wadhera, Masters student, Computer Science, Fall '03 - Summer '04.
Mukund Sundararajan, Masters student, Computer Science, Winter - Summer '04.
Su-In Lee, PhD student, Electrical Engineering. Su-In was in our group during Spring '02 - Summer '04, and then joined Daphne Koller's group.
Mike Brudno, PhD student, Computer Science, Fall '01 - Spring '04.
Mike defended his thesis on April 29, 2004, and graduated with his PhD. He will join the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Faculty of Medicine in January 2006.
Phuong Tu-Minh, Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, co-visiting Russ Altman's and our groups, Fall '04 - Spring '05.
Irene Liu, PhD student, BMI, Winter '02 - Summer '05. In collaboration with Stuart Kim and Russ Altman.
Irene graduated with her PhD in the summer of 2005. Currently she is attending Stanford Medical School.
Stephen Dean Guo, Undergraduate, Computer Science 2004-2005.
Daniel Holbert, Undergraduate & Co-Term Masters Student, Computer Science, 2004-2005.
Ophelia Shalini Venturelli. Undergraduate student, Biology, Fall '05.
Serge Saxonov, PhD student, BMI. Serge is a student of of Doug Brutlag. Serge defended his BMI Thesis Proposal on February 4, 2005.
Brian Naughton, PhD student, BMI, until Summer '06. Brian was a student of Doug Brutlag. Brian defended his BMI Thesis Proposal on May 25, 2006.
Vignesh Ganapathy, Masters student, Computer Science. Vignesh worked with Andreas Sundquist on a project in collaboration with Arend Sidow.
Suveyda Yeniterzi, visiting undergraduate Summer '06, Computer Science.
Daniel Woods, Masters student, Computer Science, Spring '05 - Spring '06.
Balaji Srinivasan, PhD student, Electrical Engineering. Balaji was a student of Harley McAdams and Serafim was his co-advisor. Now Balaji has a Lecturer fellowship in Statistics, Stanford.
Nina Singhal, PhD student, Computer Science. Nina worked with Vijay Pande and Serafim was her official advisor in the Department of Computer Science.
Olga Russakovsky, Undergraduate and Co-Term Masters student, Computer Science. Olga is a PhD student of Andrew Ng.
Chuan Sheng Foo, CURIS student, Computer Science.
Greg Goldgof, CURIS student, Computer Science.
Andreas Sundquist, PhD student, Computer Science, Winter '04 - Spring '08.
Tony Novak , PhD student, Computer Science, on leave.
Jason Flannick , PhD student, Computer Science Winter '04 - Summer '08.
Omkar Deshpande , PhD student, Computer Science, Fall '02 - Winter '08.
Eugene Fratkin , PhD student, Computer Science, Fall '05 - Spring '09. Check out his photo page .
George Asimenos, PhD student, Computer Science, Winter '04 - Spring '09.
Chuong (Tom) Do , PhD student, Computer Science (former CURIS student). Tom was co-advised (and co-hooded!) with Andrew Ng and Serafim, in Serafim's group between Winter '02 and Spring '09.