University of North Texas 
People
Director
Dr. Serdar Bozdag
Distinguished Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering
Founding Director, Center for Computational Life Sciences
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Mathematics
BioDiscovery Institute
University of North Texas
Founding Director, Center for Computational Life Sciences
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Mathematics
BioDiscovery Institute
University of North Texas
Current Members
Jubair Ibn Malik Rifat
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Yashu Vashishath
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Most Tahmina Rahman
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Suman Pandey
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Bizhan Alipour Pijani
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Neha Goud Baddam
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
UNT
UNT
Lab Alumni
Muhammed Talo
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Associate Professor, Faculty of ENgineering, Firat University
Current Position: Associate Professor, Faculty of ENgineering, Firat University
Cagri Ozdemir
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Delaware State University
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Delaware State University
Islam Akef Ebeid
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Texas Woman's University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Texas Woman's University
Sita Sirisha Madugula
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Lab
Current Position: Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Lab
Mohammad Al Olaimat
Ph.D. Student
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity & Computing, University of South Florida
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity & Computing, University of South Florida
Ziynet Nesibe Kesimoglu
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2023 (UNT)
Current Position: Postdoc, NCBI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Current Position: Postdoc, NCBI, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Banabithi Bose
Ph.D. in Computational and Mathematical Sciences, 2020 (Marquette)
Current Position: Postdoc, University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
Current Position: Postdoc, University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
Cagatay Dursun
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2020 (Marquette)
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at AbbVie
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist at AbbVie
Guanqi Guo
Visiting Scholar, MS in Bioinformatics, 2017
Current Position: Information Analyst Engineer, BGI
Current Position: Information Analyst Engineer, BGI
Duc Do
Ph.D. in Computational Science, 2018
Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, Persefoni
Current Position: Lead Data Scientist, Persefoni
Brittany Baur
Ph.D. in Computational Sciences, 2016
Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist at University of Michigan Medical School
Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist at University of Michigan Medical School
Karl Stamm
Ph.D. in Computational Sciences, 2016
Current Position: Data Scientist at Kaiser Permanente
Current Position: Data Scientist at Kaiser Permanente
Damien Ready
MS in Bioinformatics, 2016
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Pfizer
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Pfizer
Vatsal Mehra
MS in Bioinformatics, 2016
Sarthak Engala
TAMS Student
Current Position: Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, UT Austin
Current Position: Undergraduate Student in Computer Science, UT Austin
Ethan Rebello
TAMS Student 2022-2024
Current Position: Undergrad Student of CS at UT Austin
Current Position: Undergrad Student of CS at UT Austin
Shreya Amalapurapu
TAMS Student 2021-2023
Current Position: Undergrad Student of CS at Columbia University
Current Position: Undergrad Student of CS at Columbia University
Jared Martinez
Undergraduate Researcher, Computer Science - 2022
BS in Computer Science, UNT 22'
BS in Computer Science, UNT 22'
Anna Fortenberry
CAHSI REU Student, Computer Science - 2022
BS in Computer Science, UNT 22'
BS in Computer Science, UNT 22'
Sriram Ayalavarapu
TAMS Student 2021-2022
Mya Miller
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2022
Computer Science, UNT 22'
Computer Science, UNT 22'
Matthew Moravec
Undergraduate Research Assistant - 2020 - 2021
Data Science, Marquette University 22′
Current Position: Software Engineer, EPIC
Data Science, Marquette University 22′
Current Position: Software Engineer, EPIC
Max Ignatowski
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Spring 2020
Computer Science, Marquette University 22′
Computer Science, Marquette University 22′
Jake Petrie
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Spring 2020
Computer Science, Marquette University 23′
Computer Science, Marquette University 23′
Abbie Papka
Undergraduate Research Assistant - Summer 2019
Bioinformatics, Marquette University 20′
Bioinformatics, Marquette University 20′
Jeanne Su
Undergrad major in Bioinformatics
Marquette University 18′
Marquette University 18′
Matthew Leiser
Undergrad major in Bioinformatics
Marquette University 18′
Marquette University 18′
Laura Poulton
Summer Intern-2017
Computer Engineering, Bucknell University 18′
Computer Engineering, Bucknell University 18′
Mathew Peter
Summer Intern-2017
Bioinformatics, Marquette University 18′
Bioinformatics, Marquette University 18′