Alumni
Shlomi Cohen
Graduation Semester: Spring 2022
Employer/Job Title: Business intelligence Analyst at IRONSCALES
QBioS Advisor: Jennifer Curtis
Home School: Physics
Co-Advisor: Shuyi Nie
Dissertation Title:The Biomechanical Role of Hyaluronan in Cell Adhesion and Migration
Nolan English
Graduation Semester: Spring 2022
Employer/Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher with the Atom Consortium at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
QBioS Advisor: Matthew Torres
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Using heuristic derived features in machine learning to recommend post translational modifications for experimental study
Elma Kajtaz
Graduation Semester: Spring 2019
Employer/Job Title: Senior Consultant at Deloitte (Managing a Data Science Team)
QBioS Advisor: Richard Nichols
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Autogenic and Intermuscular Pathways in Cats with Partial Spinal Cord Lesions
Alexander Lee
Graduation Semester: Fall 2020
Employer/Job Title: Math Teacher at Lithia Springs High School
QBioS Advisor: David Hu
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Star-shaped bubbles and cubic feces: geometry through soft matter
Guanlin Li
Graduation Semester: August 2021
Employer/Job Title: Quantitative Researcher at China Securities Co., Ltd
QBioS Advisor: Joshua Weitz
Home School: Physics
Co-Advisor: Yao Yao
Dissertation Title:Optimization and Control of Virus-Host Systems
Lijiang Long
Graduation Semester: December 2020
Employer/Job Title: Senior Data Scientist at the Home Depot
QBioS Advisor: Patrick McGrath
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Quantitative Methods to Understand Reproductive Isolation that Contribute to Specialization
Pedro Márquez-Zacarías
Graduation Semester: Fall 2022
Employer/Job Title: Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute
QBioS Advisor: William Ratcliff
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Life cycles and nascent multicellularity
Daniel Muratore
Graduation Semester: August 2022
Employer/Job Title: Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute
QBioS Advisor: Joshua Weitz
Home School: School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Emergence of Marine Biogeochemical Dynamics Across Scales Drive by Complex Microbial and Viral Communities
Joy Putney
Graduation Semester: December 2021
Employer/Job Title: Associate Service Fellow in CDC Office of Science (Data Strategy and Analytics Team)
QBioS Advisor: Simon Sponberg
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Temporal Encoding, Precision, and Coordination in a Comprehensive, Spike-Resolved Motor Program
Hector Velasco-Perez
Graduation Semester: May 2022
Employer/Job Title: Scientist at Maxwell Biomedical
QBioS Advisor: Flavio Fenton
Home School: Physics
Dissertation Title:Methods for model reduction in cardiac dynamics
Seyed-Alireza Zamani-Dahaj
Graduation Semester: August 2021
Employer/Job Title: Senior Computational Biologist at hC Bioscience, Inc.
QBioS Advisor: Peter Yunker
Home School: Physics
Co-Advisor: William Ratcliff
Dissertation Title:De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity and trait heritability in major transitions
Conan Zhao
Graduation Semester: August 2022
Employer/Job Title: Medical Student at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
QBioS Advisor: Sam Brown
Home School: School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Identifying Microbial Biomarkers of Cystic Fibrosis Health and Disease