Alumni
Pablo Bravo
Graduation Semester: Summer 2024
Employer/Job Title: Postdoc at Caltech
Home School: School of Physics
Dissertation Title:Quantification and modeling of biofilm development through interferometry
Shlomi Cohen
Graduation Semester: Spring 2022
Employer/Job Title: Business Analytics and Insights 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
Kelimar Diaz
Graduation Semester: Fall 2022
Employer/Job Title: Assistant Professor in Physics at Oglethorpe University
QBioS Advisor: Daniel Goldman
Home School: Physics
Dissertation Title:Geometric modeling of biological and robotic locomotion in highly damped environments
Nolan English
Graduation Semester: Spring 2022
Employer/Job Title: Data Scientist at Amgen
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 Data Scientist at Deloitte
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Autogenic and Intermuscular Pathways in Cats with Partial Spinal Cord Lesions
Daniel Lauer
Graduation Semester: Summer 2023
Employer/Job Title: Decision Analytics Associate Consultant at ZS Associates
QBioS Advisor: Jenny McGuire
Home School: School of Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Responses of African Mammals and Ecosystems to Environmental Change Across Space and Time
Alexander Lee
Graduation Semester: Fall 2020
Employer/Job Title: Data Analyst at Oglethorpe Power Corporation
QBioS Advisor: David Hu
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Star-shaped bubbles and cubic feces: geometry through soft matter
Guanlin Li
Graduation Semester: Summer 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: Fall 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
Katie MacGillivray
Graduation Semester: Spring 2025
Employer/Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Davis
QBioS Advisor: William Ratcliff
Home School: Biological Sciences
Co-Advisor: Brian Hammer
Dissertation Title:Evolutionary constraints of cooperation and conflict in microbes
Andreea Magalie
Graduation Semester: Summer 2023
Employer/Job Title: Senior Clinical Pharmacologist at AbbVie
QBioS Advisor: Joshua Weitz
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Bacterial dormancy and its impact on phage-host interactions
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: Summer 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
Aaron Pfennig
Graduation Semester: Summer 2024
Employer/Job Title: Postdoc at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University
QBioS Advisor: Joe Lachance
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Theoretical and empirical population genetics of admixture and introgression
Rozenn Pineau
Graduation Semester: Fall 2023
Employer/Job Title: Postdoc at the University of Chicago
QBioS Advisor: William Ratcliff
Home School: Biology
Dissertation Title:Evolution in real time: insights from micro- to macroscopic multicellular organisms
Joy Putney Ortega
Graduation Semester: Fall 2021
Employer/Job Title: Senior 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
Athulya Ram
Graduation Semester: Summer 2024
Employer/Job Title: Lecturer at Stanford University
QBioS Advisor: Leonid Bunimovich
Home School: Mathematics
Dissertation Title:Antigenic cooperation and cross-immunoreactivity
Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez
Graduation Semester: Spring 2024
Employer/Job Title: Postdoc at NIH
QBioS Advisor: Joshua Weitz
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Computational Models of Phage Therapy from In Vitro Settings to In Vivo Infections
Sarah Sundius
Graduation Semester: Spring 2024
Employer/Job Title: NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at Naval Research Lab
QBioS Advisor: Rachel Kuske
Home School: Mathematics
Co-Advisor: Sam Brown
Dissertation Title:Novel Computational Models for Bacterial Dynamics in Community and Treatment Contexts
Stephen Thomas
Graduation Semester: Spring 2023
Employer/Job Title: Lead Engineer at CellCarta
QBioS Advisor: Sam Brown
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Linking Molecular Mechansims to Population-level Behavior using Mathematical Models of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing
Kai Tong
Graduation Semester: Fall 2022
Employer/Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University
QBioS Advisor: William Ratcliff
Home School: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Title:Evolution of Cell Differentiation and Whole Genome Duplication in a Multicellularity Long-Term Evolution Experiment
Hector Velasco-Perez
Graduation Semester: Spring 2022
Employer/Job Title: Research and Development 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: Summer 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
Mengshi Zhang
Graduation Semester: Summer 2024
Employer/Job Title: Postdoc at University of Washington
QBioS Advisor: Marvin Whiteley
Home School: Biological Science
Dissertation Title:Probing mRNA-Protein Relationships Across Prokaryotes: From Pseudomonas to Sulfolobus
Conan Zhao
Graduation Semester: Summer 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
Baxi Zhong
Graduation Semester: Fall 2022
Employer/Job Title: Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University
QBioS Advisor: Daniel Goldman
Home School: Physics
Dissertation Title:Geometric modeling of biological and robotic locomotion in highly damped environments