Group Members

Ramana V. Davuluri

Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Stony Brook Cancer Center
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for AI-Driven Discovery and Innovation
Email: Ramana.Davuluri@stonybrookmedicine.edu

• Post Doc Fellow, Computational Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), 2001
• Post Doc Fellow, Bioinformatics, University of Ghent, Gent, Belgium, 1998
• PHD, Statistics and Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IARI),India, 1996
• MS, Statistics and Computer Application, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IARI),India, 1991

Xiaolu Cheng, PhD

Research Scientist, started November 2023
Email: Xiaolu.Cheng@stonybrookmedicine.edu

• Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2013
• B.S., Nankai University, 2005

Pratik Dutta, PhD

Senior Research Scientist, started April 2021
Email: Pratik.Dutta@stonybrook.edu

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Patna, 2020
• M.E., Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology Shibpur, 2015
• B.E., Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology Shibpur, 2013

Max Longhao Chao

Started from August 2023
Email: max.chao@stonybrook.edu

• MS Computational Biology, Weill Cornell, 2023
• BS Bioengineering, Cornell, 2018

Matthew Obusan

Started from August 2023
Email: matthew.obusan@stonybrookmedicine.edu

• MD Ph.D. Student, Renaissance School of Medicine

Nimisha Papineni

Started from August 2022
Email: nimisha.papineni@stonybrook.edu

• Integrated Masters in Statistics, Pondicherry Central University, 2021

Rekha Sathian

Started Oct 2021
Email: rekha.sathian@stonybrook.edu

• MS in Bioinformatics,Union Christian College, India, 2013
• BS in Zoology, St. Xaviers College, India, 2011

Pallavi Surana

Started July 2021
Email: pallavi.surana@stonybrook.edu

• MS Bioinformatics and Genomics, Penn State, USA, 2020
• BE Biotechnology, RVCE, India, 2019

Chelsea Kirkland

Rotational Student, May 2024 - Present
Email: chelsea.kirkland@stonybrook.edu

• Ph.D. Student, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

Margalit Mitzner

Rotational Student, April 2024 - Present
Email: Margalit.mitzner@stonybrookmedicine.edu

• MD Ph.D. Student, Renaissance School of Medicine

Sripriya Challal

CSIRE student, June 2023 - Aug 2023
Email: Sripriya.Challa@gmail.com

• 12th grade student, UCVTS in Union County, NJ

• Yanrong(Jerry) Ji, Ph.D. in BioMedical Informatics, Oct. 2017 – May. 2021, Currently: Analytics Advisor, Clinical Trial Services at CVS Health
• Manoj Kandpal, Res. Asst Professor, Department of Surgery, NUFSM, Mar. 2014 – June 2020, Currently: Director of Research Bioinformatics, Hospital Administration, Rockefeller University
• Mathew Dapas, PhD Student, Bioinformatics Track, Mar. 2015 – Mar. 2019, Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, IL
• Sudesh Pundir, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2019,, Currently: Assistant Professor (From Pondicherry University, India)
• Arunima Shilpi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dec. 2016 – Dec. 2018, Currently: Bioinformatics Scientist at National Institute of Health, MD, Bethesda
• Yingtao Bi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2017, Currently: Director of Bioinformatics, AbbVie, MA
• HongJian Jin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Aug. 2014 – Aug. 2017, Currently: Research Assistant Professor, St Judes Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis
• Segun Jung, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nov. 2013 – Dec. 2015, Currently: Associate Director, R&D and Clinical Bioinformatics, NeoGenomics Laboratories, CA
• Auditi Debroy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Currently: In the Davuluri Lab Oct. 2014 – Sept. 2015 , now Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb (Immuno-Oncology)
• Ferhat Ay, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mar. 2015 – Dec. 2015, Currently: Institute Leadership Associate Professor of Computational Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA.
• Ravi Gupta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jul. 2008 - Feb. 2012, Currently: VP of Bioinformatics, MedGenome Labs, India
• Sharmistha Pal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sep. 2008 - Feb. 2013, Currently: Senior Scientist, Haas-Kogan Lab, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• Madhu Bhattacharjee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nov. 2009 - Apr. 2010, Currently: Associate Professor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
• Murali Bashyam, Postdoctoral Fellow, Jan. 2013 - Jun. 2013., Currently: Group Head (PI) of Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, India
• Hyunsoo Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2009 - Aug. 2011, Currently: Assistant Professor, Div. of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
• Zhongfa (Jacob) Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2012, Currently: Bioinformatics Scientist, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
• Priyankara Wikramasinghe, Postdoctoral Fellow, May. 2006 - Apr. 2008, Currently: Associate Wistar Scientist, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
• Anirban Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nov. 2007 - May, 2010, Currently: Chief Scientist (Scalable Systems and Machine Learning) at Bashpole Inc., Philadelphia, PA
• Hao Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow, April 2002-Dec. 2003, Currently: Full Professor, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Gregory Singer, Postdoctoral Fellow, May 2004 - Apr. 2008, Currently: Director of Research Grants at Ryerson University.
• Huaxia Qin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sep. 2005 - Sep.2007, Currently: Statistician, JP Morgan Chase Bank & Co., Columbus, OH
• Victor Jin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Apr. 2003 - Nov. 2005,, Currently: Full Professor of Bioinformatics, Dept of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX.