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

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

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.

Joseph Filipek: Computer Science, Masters Student, University of Central Florida.
Thalia La Pommeray: Computer Science, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Florida.
Jose Hoyos Sanchez: Computer Science, Undergraduate Student, University of Central Florida.
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.