Current Members

Dr. Wei Zhang
Lab Director

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Core Member for the Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster

  • Research Interest: Analysis of Cancer Transcript Variants; Network-based Learning in Bioinformatics; Drug Sensitivity Prediction
  • Education: PhD & MS, Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2015 & 2011)
  • Contact: wzhang.cs(at)ucf(dot)edu
Sudipto Baul
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application of Graph Deep Learning and Attention mechanism in Biological Data Analysis
  • Education: B.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2019)
  • Contact: sudipto@knights.ucf.edu
Joseph Filipek
Masters Student

Masters Student in Computer Science

Thalia La Pommeray
Undergraduate Student

Undergraduate Student in Computer Science

Jose Hoyos Sanchez
Undergraduate Student

Undergraduate Student in Computer Science

Istiaq Ansari Rakib
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application and Development of Deep Learning Algorithms on Bioinformatics
  • Education: B.S. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2019)
  • Contact: istiaq@ucf.edu
Ehtesamul Azim
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Geometric Deep Learning
  • Education: B.S. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2021)
  • Contact: ehtesamul.azim@ucf.edu
Muhtasim Noor Alif
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Devising Machine/Deep Learning Algorithms for Biological Data Analysis
  • Education: B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2023)
  • Contact: mu031692@ucf.edu
Sourav Saha
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application of Pretrained Deep Learning Models and Attention Mechanism in Posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms
  • Education: B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (2023)
  • Contact: sourav.saha@ucf.edu
Thanh Bui
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research interest: Multiomics Data Integration
  • Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Informatics (Honors, Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
  • Contact: tienthanh.bui@ucf.edu
Jeovani Overstreet
Student
  • Research interest: Single Cell RNA-seq data Analysis
  • Education: B.S. in Biochemistry from Florida State University
  • Contact: je435858@ucf.edu 

Alumni

  • Naima Ahmed Fahmi: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2018 – Fall 2024).
  • Qibing Jiang: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 – Summer 2024).
  • Khandakar Tanvir Ahmed: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 – Spring 2024). Current Position: Senior Data Scientist – ChenMed, Florida, USA.
  • Jiao Sun: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Spring 2018 – Spring 2023). Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.

Other Students Supervised by Dr. Zhang

  • William Chen (Fall 2020 – Fall 2021): Computer Science, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Florida (NSF REU Student). Current Position: Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Heba Nassereddeen (Summer 2019 – Fall 2020): Computer Engineering, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Florida (NSF REU Student). Current Position: Software Engineer at L3Harris Technologies.
  • Milan Shah (Summer 2019): Computer Science Undergrad Student, Duke University (NSF REU Student). Current Position: Ph.D. Student at North Carolina State University.
  • Tara Rutkowski (Summer 2019 – Spring 2020): Statistics and Computer Science, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Florida (NSF REU Student). Current Position: Data Scientist at AArete.
  • Ity Bahadur (Spring 2019 – Fall 2019): Computer Science, MS student, University of Central Florida. Current Position: QA Automation Engineer at Zoox
  • Rajat Bhattacharjee (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019): Computer Engineering MS Student, University of Central Florida. Current Position: Software Engineer at Capital One.
  • Zhibo Wang (Spring 2018 – Spring 2019): Computer Science PhD Student, University of Central Florida.