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

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

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

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

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

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.