Area of Specialization
Amirali Aghazadeh
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for Science, Protein/small molecule design and engineering, Molecular sensing and diagnostics, Core ML/AI (Interpretability, robustness, and generalizaiton in deep learning), Scalable ML/AI (Exploiting sparsity to accelerate inference)
Srinivas Aluru
Professor, College of Computing
Areas of Specialization:
Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics, Gene Regulatory Networks, High Performance Computing
Manoj Bhasin
Associate Professor Of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine, Associate Professor Of Biomedical Informatics, Emory School of Medicine
Areas of Specialization:
Platform for analysis of single cell data;
Development of molecular diagnostics platforms for cancer diagnosis and prognosis;
Identification of biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma and colon cancer;
Exploring the genomic mechanism for complementary and alternative medicines(CAM);
Understanding tumor heterogeneity using single cell sequencing;
Development of novel algorithms for analysis of omics data including RNA sequencing, chip sequencing, DNA sequencing and proteomics
Development of molecular diagnostics platforms for cancer diagnosis and prognosis;
Identification of biomarkers for early detection of pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma and colon cancer;
Exploring the genomic mechanism for complementary and alternative medicines(CAM);
Understanding tumor heterogeneity using single cell sequencing;
Development of novel algorithms for analysis of omics data including RNA sequencing, chip sequencing, DNA sequencing and proteomics
Mark Borodovsky
Regents' Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Bioinformatics Algorithms, Machine Learning, Gene Prediction and Structural Genomic Annotation.
Sam Brown
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Evolutionary Microbiology, Bacterial Social Life, Virulence and Drug Resistance
Leonid Bunimovich
Regents' Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics
Areas of Specialization:
Mathematical Biology, Dynamical Networks, Crossimmunoreactivity and Local Immunodeficiency
Elizabeth Cherry
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Computational Science and Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Cardiac arrhythmia modeling, scientific machine learning, computational physiology, scientific computing, high-performance computing
Lily Cheung
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Gene regulatory networks, plant development, and Systems Biology
Ahmet Coskun
Assistant Professor, Bernie Marcus Early Career Professorship, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech and Emory)
Areas of Specialization:
Single Biotechnology, Spatial Omics and Machine Learning
Aditi Das
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Lipidomics, enzymology, neurochemistry, targeted metabolomics, spectroscopy, membrane protein biochemistry, chemical biology, nanodisc technology.
J. Brandon Dixon
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Lymphatic Physiology, Lymphedema, Imaging, Lymphatic Disease Prediction
Yuhong Fan
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Chromatin, Gene Expression, Stem Cell Biology, Mouse Genetics, Cancer
Facundo Fernandez
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Precision medicine, regenerative medicine, metabolomics, machine learning, mass spectrometry, phenotyping, multi-omics, mass spectrometry imaging.
David Gaul
Research Faculty, Systems Mass Spectrometry Core (SyMSC)
Areas of Specialization:
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Metabolomics, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
Eliver Ghosn
Assistant Professor, Emory School of Medicine
Areas of Specialization:
hsc-independent hematopoiesis;
tissue-resident innate-like B lymphocytes;
tissue-resident macrophages
tissue-resident innate-like B lymphocytes;
tissue-resident macrophages
Gregory Gibson
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Genetics of Gene Expression, Predictive Health, Malaria Systems Biology
Michael Goodisman
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Sociobiology, Behavior, Molecular Evolution, Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, Bioethics, Population Genetics
Brian Hammer
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Bacterial Genetics, Signal Transduction, Small RNAs, Vibrio Biology, Biofilms
Christine Heitsch
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics
Areas of Specialization:
Discrete Mathematical Biology, RNA Secondary Structure, Combinatorics
Nick Housley
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Cancer Neurobiology, Cancer Biology, Drug Development, Cellular Neuroscience, Biophysics, Translational Science
Nicholas Hud
Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Nucleic Acid Structure, Function and Evolution
Saumya Jain
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Single cell genomics, mammalian brain development, gene expression regulation
King Jordan
Director of Bioinformatics Graduate Program
Areas of Specialization:
Human genomics, population genomics, genetic ancestry, genetic epidemiology, health disparities
Lynn Kamerlin
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
computational biology, computational chemistry, enhanced sampling approaches, protein evolution, enzyme design
Melissa Kemp
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Computational Systems Biology; Cellular Signaling and Metabolic Networks
Kostas Konstantinidis
Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Microbial Genomics, Human Microbiome, Bioinformatics Algorithms for Metagenomics
Joel Kostka
Professor, School of Biological Sciences and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiomes, Bioremediation, Climate Change
Joseph Lachance
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Darwinian Medicine, Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Theoretical Population Genetics
Raquel Lieberman
Professsor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Biochemistry, Biomolecular Structure and Function, Chemical Biology, Molecular Biophysics
Abigail Lind
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Genomics, eukaryotic microbes, molecular evolution, host-microbe interactions
Yunan Luo
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Computational biology and machine learning, with a focus on developing AI and data science methods to reveals core scientific insights into biology and medicine.
Jeffrey Markowitz
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Neuroscience, machine learning, protein engineering, imaging
Patrick McGrath
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Quantitative Genetics, Behavior, GPCR-Ligand Binding, Epistasis
Andrew McShan
Associate Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Protein Structure/Function, Immunology, De Novo Protein Design/Engineering, NMR Spectroscopy, Biophysics
Farzaneh Najafi
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Systems, behavioral & computational neuroscience; Cognition, perception & sensorimotor learning; Predictive processing & error detection; Brain regions (cortex & cerebellum) interactions, Cell-type specific population coding
Adegboyega "Yomi" Oyelere
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Drug Design, Chemical Biology, Cancer Therapy, Molecular Docking, Transcriptome Analysis
Annalise Paaby
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Genomics, Quantitative Genetics, Experimental Evolutionary Biology
Tony Pan
Assistant Professor, Emory University Department of Biomedical Informatics
Areas of Specialization:
Medical Imaging, Informatics, and AI Core
Pamela Peralta-Yahya
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology, Molecular Evoultion
Raphaël Pestourie
Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science & Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Scientific Machine Learning
Deqiang Qiu
Assistant Professor, Emory School of Medicine
Areas of Specialization:
Alzheimer's Disease;
Stroke Imaging;
Machine Learning;
Perfusion and Blood Brain Barrier imaging;
Magnetic Susceptibility imaging
Stroke Imaging;
Machine Learning;
Perfusion and Blood Brain Barrier imaging;
Magnetic Susceptibility imaging
Peng Qiu
Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Machine Learning, Data Integration, Visualization, Single-cell Analysis and Systems Biology
Annabelle Singer
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Neuroscience, Memory impairment, Alzheimer's, Brain Immune System
Saurabh Sinha
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Machine Learning, Regulatory Genomics, Systems Biology, Neurogenomics, Cancer genomics
Jeffrey Skolnick
Director, Center for the Study of Systems Biology, GRA Eminent Scholar
Areas of Specialization:
Computational Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Protein Structure Prediction
Garrett Stanley
McCamish Distinguished Chaired Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Control Theory, Real-time Computation, Machine Learning
Alberto Stolfi
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Neurodevelopment, neuroscience, developmental biology, cell biology, gene regulation, genome engineering, tunicates
Francesca Storici
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Molecular Biology, DNA Repair, RNA Transactions, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, Genome Stability, Gene Targeting
Todd Streelman
Professor and Chair, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Evolution, Genomics, Specialization, Development, Regeneration, Complex Behavior
James Stroud
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Evolutionary ecology, community ecology, species interactions, microevolution, macroevolution, herpetology, global change biology, climate change, invasive species, functional morphology
Matthew Torres
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Areas of Specialization:
Protein Biology and Biochemistry; Cell Signaling; Mass Spectrometry; Proteomics
Denis Tsygankov
Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Integrative Systems Biology, Cell Biomechanics, Computer Vision
May Wang
Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Medical Informatics and Bioimaging, Developing Diverse Biomedical Data Analysis, Modeling
Loren Williams
Professor, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Areas of Specialization:
Origins and Evolution of the Ribosome
Jianhua Xiong
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology at Emory University
Areas of Specialization:
Cell signaling, metabolism, multi-omics, bioinformatics, tumor immune-vascular microenvironment, and urologic health and cancer biology.
Jindan Yu
Fray Marshall Endowed Chair and Professor of Urology, Human Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
Cancer technologies, genomics and bioinformatics, tumor immune microenvironment, Prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer biology, biomarkers and therapeutics
Xiuwei Zhang
Assistant Professor, College of Computing
Areas of Specialization:
Data Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics
Tuo Zhao
Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Areas of Specialization:
developing principled methodologies, nonconvex optimization algorithms and practical theories for machine learning (especially deep learning). Natural language processing and open source software development for scientific computing.
Jonathan Zhao
Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics at Emory University
Areas of Specialization:
Cancer Genomics, molecular mechanisms underlying prostate cancer, developing computational pipelines for the routine processing of NGS data