Core Faculty
Admin/Staff
Simon Tavaré, FRS FMedSci
Herbert and Florence Irving Director, Professor of Statistics and Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Admin/Staff
Stephanie Velasquez, MPA
Executive Director of Business Administration and Strategic Initiatives
Admin/Staff
Fharhan Rahman
Associate Director Finance & Administration
Admin/Staff
Lorenza Favrot, PhD
Assistant Director, Outreach and Communication
Admin/Staff
Devyn Forcina
Communications Specialist
Admin/Staff
Pamela S. Felix
Executive Assistant
Core Faculty
Genevera I. Allen, PhD
Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Affiliate Faculty (non-Columbia)
Samuel Aparicio, BCh, PhD, FRCPath, FRSC
Nan & Lorraine Robertson Chair in Breast Cancer Research; Canada Research Chair in Molecular Oncology; Distinguished Scientist and Head, Department of Breast & Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency; UBC Distinguished University Scholar
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Elham Azizi, PhD
Herbert and Florence Irving Associate Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Ozgur Beker
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Nicolas Beltran-Velez
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Noah Bergam
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
David M. Blei, PhD
Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Andrew J. Blumberg, PhD
Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Irene Chang
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
Research Interest
Scientific Staff
Yanjie Chen
Staff Associate, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Alba Corman, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, New York Genome Center
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Ivan Z. Corwin, PhD
Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics
Research Interest
Research Scientists
Aidan Daly, DPhil
Senior Computational Scientist, New York Genome Center
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Khushi Desai
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Research Scientists
Khanh Ngoc Dinh, PhD
Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and in the Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Bianca Dumitrascu, PhD
Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research (in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Assistant Professor of Statistics
Research Interest
Affiliate Faculty (non-Columbia)
Scott E. Fraser, PhD
Provost Professor of Biology and Bioengineering; Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Convergent Bioscience, Director of Science Initiatives, University of Southern California
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Valerio Galanti
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Jellert T. Gaublomme, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dept of Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Tina Giorgadze
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Beatrice Grauman
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Charles Haggerty, Dr. rer. nat.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, New York Genome Center
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Claire Ming-Yi He
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Ruiyang He
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Abigail Hickok, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Mathematics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Kevin Hoffer-Hawlik
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Chin Hur, MD, MPH
Irving Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; Director, Healthcare Innovations Research and Evaluation; Columbia University Medical Center
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
YoonHaeng Hur, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Sopho Kevlishvili
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Jessica Kingsley, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Neeharika Kothapalli
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies
Research Interest
Graduate Students
James Lee
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Research Interest
Research Scientists
Soobeom Lee, PhD
Research Scientist, New York Genome Center
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Ioana Lia
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Lambda Moses, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
José L. McFaline-Figueroa, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Dept of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
William R. Milligan, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Otavio Dittrich Moreira
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Joshua Myers
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Anirban Nath
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, StatisticsSchool of social work, Room 901
Research Interest
Affiliate Faculty (non-Columbia)
Karol Nowicki-Osuch, PhD
Junior Group Leader, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Itsik Pe'er, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Systems Biology, Department of Computer Science
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Darcy S. Peterka, PhD
Senior Scientist Director of Team Science and Director of Cellular Imaging Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Michael Pressler
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Computer Science
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Carol L. Prives, PhD
Da Costa Professor of Biology, Dept of Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Research Scientists
Sanket Rane, PhD
Associate Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Affiliate Faculty (non-Columbia)
Ben Raphael, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Sohrab Salehi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Affiliate Faculty (non-Columbia)
Sohrab Shah, PhD
Chief of Computational Oncology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Lingting Shi, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Apoorva Singh, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Cody Slater
Student, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Brent Stockwell, PhD
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Pathology & Cell Biology, and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Runshi Tang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Saeed Tavazoie, PhD
Professor of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology; in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Dept of Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Andrea Terceros, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Anne van Delft, PhD
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Research Interest
Core Faculty
Sanja Vicković, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics)
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Ren-Yi Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Benjamin Wesley
Student, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, Biological Sciences
Research Interest
Associate Faculty
Andrew J. Yates, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Cell Biology
Research Interest
Graduate Students
Mingxuan Zhang
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, Pharmacology & Molecular Signaling
Research Interest
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Aaron Zweig, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics