BIDS-TP Fellows and Trainees
BIDS-TP supports two types of doctoral students – Fellows (funded) and Trainees (independently funded). These are two-year appointments. All current and prospective UM doctoral students with BIDS interests are eligible to apply for the Traineeship slots (5-6 new trainees each year). US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for the Fellowship lots (4 new slots each year).
Doctoral students from DCMB or MIDAS GDSC Program are eligible to apply.
Bretton Badenoch
Program: Data Science
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Sriram Chandrasekaran, Richard Miller
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Evan Snitkin
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Sina Bonakdar
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Kelly Arnold
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Ingrid Flaspohler
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Alan Boyle
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Kayvan Najarian
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Jake Joseph
Program: Data Science
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Anne Draelos
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Arvind Rao
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Rio Parsons
Program: Data Science
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Anne Draelos
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Pranjal Srivastava
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Brian Athey, Ivo Dinov
Ashley Tsang
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: TBD
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Lana Garmire
Year in Program 2024-2025 (cohort 3)
Neil Zhao
Program: Data Science
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Johnny Sexton
BIDS-TP Alumni
Jenna Bedrava
Program: Data Science
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Matthew Schipper
Year in Program 2022-2023 (cohort 2)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Maureen Sartor
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Evan Snitkin
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Lana Garmire
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)
Luke Francisco
Program: Data Science
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Ambuj Tewari & Margit Burmeister
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)
Ph.D. Student
Mentor: VG Vydiswaran
Ph.D. Student
Mentor: J. Li
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Todd Hollon
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Fellow
Advisor: Matt O’Meara
Year in Program 2022-2024 (cohort 2)
Mentor: Steve Parker
Track: Trainee
Year in Program 2021-2023
Ph.D. Student
Mentor: J. Liu
Mentor: Lydia Freddolino
Ryan Rebernick
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Marcin Cieslik
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)
Mentor: A. Rao
Current Position: Bioinformatics Software Engineer, Illumina
Program: Bioinformatics
Track: Trainee
Advisor: Ivo Dinov
Year in Program: 2021-2023 (cohort 1)
Mentor: Kavyan Najarian