Systems and Quantitative Biology
Affiliated Faculty

Core Faculty
Admin/Staff
Simon Tavaré, FRS FMedSci
Herbert and Florence Irving Director, Professor of Statistics and Biological Sciences
Research Interest

Core Faculty
Genevera I. Allen, PhD
Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
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

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

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

Graduate Students
Tina Giorgadze
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
Research Interest

Graduate Students
Claire Ming-Yi He
Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Statistics
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
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
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

Associate Faculty
Itsik Pe'er, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Systems Biology, Department of Computer Science
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

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

Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Ren-Yi Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics
Research Interest

Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Emilie Wedenborg, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics
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
