Michael DeGiorgio, principal investigator. Michael received his B.S. in mathematics and in computer science from the University of Central Florida in 2006, and his Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the University of Michigan in 2011. He was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and joined the faculty of the Departments of Biology and Statistics and the Institute for CyberScience at Pennsylvania State University in January 2014. He was named an Alfred P. Sloan fellow in 2017.

Xiaoheng Cheng, graduate student in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences.

Alex Harris, graduate student in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences.

Mehreen Mughal, graduate student in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Mehreen is supported by a CBIOS training grant.

You. We are currently recruiting members at the graduate and postdoctoral levels. Please email me to discuss potential opportunities.

Previous members

Jinguo Huang, graduate rotation student in Bioinformatics and Genomics, September 2018-November 2018


Hillary Koch, graduate student in Statistics, June 2016-May 2017


Carlos Prada, postdoc (joint with Mónica Medina), October 2014-April 2016 (next position as Tupper postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)


Joe Gardner, undergraduate in physics, June 2014-April 2015 (next position as Junior Associate at Mu Sigma)


Ashley Hall, undergraduate in mathematics, June 2014-April 2015 (next position as Federal Risk Analyst at Deloitte)


Divya Jagadeesh, undergraduate in mathematics, October 2014-January 2015 (next position as IT Intern at The Dow Chemical Company)


Michelle Kim, undergraduate in biology, June 2014-April 2016 (next position as Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology)


Jesse Schneider, undergraduate in biology, September 2014-December 2015


Cheng Xu, graduate rotation student in MCIBS, November 2015-December 2015