Alumni
The people who got us to where we are today.
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Postdocs.
Aarti Sehdev |
Data Engineer Consultant, Kubrick Group. Profile
Past positions and training
Doctoral researcher, International Max Planck Research School for Organismal Biology; postdoc, Yale University (2020–2023); data engineering consulting with Kubrick and AstraZeneca.
Adam Waite |
Researcher, Calico Life Sciences. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington (2007–2013); postdoc, Yale University; Research Specialist, Calico Life Sciences.
Amitabha Nandi |
Professor of Physics, IIT Bombay. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoc, Yale University; Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay (from 2015).
Artur Wachtel
Past positions and training
PhD, University of Luxembourg (2018); postdoctoral research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University.
Average Phan |
Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Natural Sciences, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges. Profile
Past positions and training
BS, MIT (2015); PhD, Princeton University (2021); postdoc, Yale University (2021–2023); postdoc in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (2023–2025).
Carlotta Martelli |
Group Leader, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoctoral researcher, Yale University (2009–2013); independent group leader, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Dervis Can Vural |
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2011); postdoc, Yale University; Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame.
Garrit Jentsch |
Managing Director, BAST GmbH. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoc, Yale University; pharmacometrics and model-based drug development research at BAST GmbH.
Henry Mattingly |
Associate Research Scientist, Biophysical Modeling, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute (since August 2022). Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University; postdoctoral associate in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University.
Jyot Antani |
Scientist, Yale University; Paul Turner Lab, Center for Phage Biology and Therapy, and Quantitative Biology Institute. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD, Texas A&M University (2021); postdoctoral research at Yale University with Paul Turner and Thierry Emonet.
Keita Kamino |
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica (since September 2022). Profile
Past positions and training
PhD, University of Tokyo (2013); postdoc, AMOLF (2013–2017); postdoc, Yale (2017–2019); Associate Research Scientist, Yale (2019–2022); JST PRESTO principal investigator (2022–2025).
Kiri Choi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Keimyung University. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Physics and PhD in Bioengineering, University of Washington; Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Advanced Study; Swartz Fellow, Yale University (2023–2025).
Mahmut Demir |
Senior Research Scientist, ATP Research and Development Labs, Apple Tree Partners. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Physics with H. Salman, University of Pittsburgh; postdoc, Yale University (2015–2022).
Nirag Kadakia |
Neural Interfaces Researcher, Meta Reality Labs. Profile
Past positions and training
Doctoral research in Physics, University of California, San Diego; postdoc, Yale University (2019–2023).
Oleksii Sliusarenko |
Quantitative researcher at a hedge fund. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoctoral research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University.
Roger Alexander
Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, Seattle. Profile
Past positions and training
Computational biology research at Georgia Tech (2007) and Yale University (2009); research at the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute.
Setsu Kato |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoc, Yale University; Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University.
Swayamshree Patra |
Hornbill Ag. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD, IIT Kanpur (2015–2021); research in Dresden; postdoc, Yale University (2022–2024).
Xiongfei Fu |
Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology at SIAT. Profile
Past positions and training
Postdoc, Yale University (March 2013–July 2016); faculty member, SIAT (from July 2016).
Yann Dufour |
DatInsights, Lyon. Profile
Past positions and training
Training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; postdoc, Yale University; Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.
Graduate Students.
Jeremy Moore
Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Center for Living Systems Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, with Seppe Kuehn and Arvind Murugan. Profile
Past positions and training
BA in Molecular Biology, Kenyon College; PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology with Thierry Emonet, Yale University (2025).
Junjiajia Long
Quantitative Trader, Tower Research Capital. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Physics with Thierry Emonet, Yale University (2019).
Michael Sneddon |
Joint Genome Institute. Profile
Past positions and training
Graduate research, Yale University; software engineering and engineering management, Zymergen; Director of Scientific Computing, Predicine (2021–2025).
Nicholas Frankel |
Senti Biosciences. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University (2015); postdoc, Wendell Lim Lab, UCSF (2015–2019); Scientist II, Senti Biosciences.
Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya |
Lead Computational Scientist, Deep Origin. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Neuroscience, Yale University (2010–2017); postdoc with Eve Marder, Brandeis University (2017–2021); Senior Computational Neuroscientist, Inscopix/Bruker (from 2021, before joining Deep Origin).
Viraaj Jayaram |
Physics, Program in Physics, Engineering and Biology
Machine Learning Engineer, Schrödinger. Profile
Past positions and training
Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Physics, University of Chicago (2019); PhD in Physics with Thierry Emonet, Yale University (2024).
William Pontius |
Senior Software Engineer, Mighty.com. Profile
Past positions and training
PhD in Physics with Thierry Emonet, Yale University (2013); software engineering, Mighty.com.
Postgraduate Students.
Luca Rappez
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona. Profile
Past positions and training
Postgraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University; doctoral research, EMBL Heidelberg; research with Nicholas Stroustrup at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.
Luis Hernandez-Nunez
Assistant Professor of Biology, Stanford University; leads the Hernandez-Nunez Lab. Profile
Past positions and training
Mechatronics engineering, National University of Engineering, Peru; research in the Emonet Lab at Yale University; doctoral and postdoctoral training, Harvard University.
Noah Olsman
Research Scientist, Paulsson Lab, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (2012); research year at Yale; PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech (2013–2018); postdoc, Harvard University (2019–2024).
Pedro Cisneros
Machine Learning Researcher, VMware Research. Profile
Past positions and training
Electrical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; PhD with Francesco Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara; postdoctoral scholar/fellow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Banerjee, Koyejo and Amato.
Sébastien Gillet
Lead Scientist, Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy. Profile
Past positions and training
Master’s degree in Biology, University of Namur (2013); PhD, University of Namur; postgraduate research, Yale University; cell and gene therapy research.
Tomas Lamot
Graduate student, University of Namur, Belgium. Profile
Past positions and training
Postgraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University; graduate study, University of Namur.
Undergraduate Students.
Abhishek Sethi
Past positions and training
Undergraduate and summer research in the Emonet Lab; contributed scripts and video annotation to Demir et al. (2020).
Adam Bildersee
Engineering executive. Profile
Past positions and training
Software Engineer, Google[x]; work at Moon Creative Lab; education at UC Berkeley Haas.
Adam Fine
PhD in Biophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, completed in 2025. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab; doctoral research with Matthias Steinrücken, University of Chicago.
Agastya Rana |
Quantitative Trading, Susquehanna (SIG). Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University (2022–2023).
Austen Theroux
Research Assistant, Gershman Lab, Harvard University. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University; research on social evolution in viruses; undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab (2022–2023).
Bohan Shakes
TikTok. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate, Yale University; research in the Emonet Lab (2023).
Charlotte Brannon
PhD candidate, Biology, Stanford University, Prakash Lab (since autumn 2020). Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and English Literature, Yale University (2019); research with Emonet, Ackermann at ETH Zurich, and Gerstein.
Ethan Brown |
Tempus AI. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University; Bioinformatics Analyst, Tempus Labs.
Faez Syed
Neurologist, Baylor Scott & White Health. Profile
Past positions and training
Medical degree, Case Western Reserve University (2020); internal medicine internship, Cleveland Clinic (2021); neurology residency, Cleveland Clinic (2024); epilepsy fellowship, UT Southwestern (2025).
Garima Singh
Grubhub. Profile
Past positions and training
Computer science and neuroscience studies, Yale University (2016–2020); work at SparkCognition and Grubhub.
Helen Cai
MD, Yale School of Medicine, completed in 2026. Profile
Past positions and training
Yale College (2020); work at Epic Systems; MD thesis with Kartik Pattabiraman, Yale School of Medicine (2026).
Hope Anderson
PhD student, Biophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, with Bana Jabri and Sam Riesenfeld. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate, Wellesley College; summer research in the Emonet Lab; graduate study, University of Chicago.
Isabel Burger
PhD student, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, with Johannes Walter and Joe Loparo. Profile
Past positions and training
BA in Molecular Biology, Pomona College (2021–2025); Emonet PEB REU (2023); Harvard PhD program (from 2025); joined the Walter and Loparo labs in July 2026.
Jennifer Wang
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University.
Jude Ong
Postgraduate researcher, National Institutes of Health. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University; co-author of the 2026 E. coli chemosensing paper.
Kelechi Akalaonu
Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Mark Stopfer group, NICHD, National Institutes of Health. Profile
Past positions and training
BS, Yale University; undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab (2024–2025).
Mattia Mahmoud
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate studies, Harvard University; PhD and MPhil; research at Penn Medicine; ASCO merit award (2024).
Megan Ayers
Conducted climate research as a PhD student in Statistics & Data Science at Yale University in 2022. Profile
Past positions and training
Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Physics, Lewis & Clark College; graduate research on climate data, Yale University; graduate researcher, Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program.
Michael Weiner
Senior Research Scientist and Lead Research Computing Facilitator, PACE, Georgia Institute of Technology. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Physics, Yale University; MS and PhD in Biophysics, Cornell University; research computing work, PACE, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Rafaela Kottou |
Analyst, Cornerstone Research. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate studies in English and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University; Emonet Lab research (2021–2023).
Ravi Balasubramanian
Graduate Student, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and BA in Comparative Literature, Yale University (2024); Fulbright study and research at Institut Curie, Paris.
Tobias Holden
Entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University in 2019. Profile
Past positions and training
BS in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology with Quantitative Biology, Yale University (2017); NIH PREP Scholar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Northwestern MSTP (from 2019).
Will Rosenbluth |
Nuclear Engineer, Naval Reactors. Profile
Past positions and training
Undergraduate research in the Emonet Lab, Yale University; nuclear engineering, Naval Reactors.