Previous mentees and alumni

Rotation students at Cornell

• Amelia Gilbert, B.S., Biomedical Engineering, M.S., Science, Technology and Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology.
  Role: Rotation Student, Biomedical Engineering (Field), Fall 2024.
  Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Alex Kwan.

• Nina Mei Brooks, B.S., Biomedical Engineering, interdisciplinary major: East Asian Studies, University of Virginia (Charlottesville), M.S., Personalized Medicine and Applied Engineering, Yale University.
  Role: Rotation Student, Biomedical Engineering (Field), Fall 2024.
  Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Robert E. Schwartz.

• Alexandra Hoff, BS (Chemistry), Western Washington University.
  Role: Rotation Student, Genetics, Genomics and Development (Field), Spring 2024.
  Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Haiyuan Yu.

• Melissa Stephanie Mychalczuk, BS (Molecular Biology), University of Pittsburgh.
  Role: Rotation Student, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (Field), Spring 2024.
  Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Mariana Wolfner.

• Adil Ibrahim Mohammed, BTech hons (Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
  Role: Rotation Student, Biomedical Engineering (Field), Fall 2023.
  Current position: Graduate researcher with Dr. Shuibing Chen.

Associate Computational Biologists

• Yufan Wu, MS (Health Data Science), Harvard University.
  Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2024.
  Current position: Incoming PhD student at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

• Carlos Arevalo, BS (Major: Molecular, cell and developmental biology, Minor: Bioinformatics), University of California, Santa Cruz.
  Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2023.
  Associated Work: Subramanian A, Vernon KA, Zhou Y, Marshall JL, Alimova M, Arevalo C, et al. Protective role for kidney TREM2high macrophages in obesity- and diabetes-induced kidney injury. Cell Rep. 2024 May 21;43(6):114253. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114253. PMID: 38781074.
  Current position: Bioinformatician at UCSC.

• Conner Lambden, BS (Molecular and Cell Biology and Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley.
  Role: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2020-2021.
  Associated Work: Tang R, Acharya N, Subramanian A, Purohit V, Tabaka M, Hou Y, He D, Dixon KO, Lambden C, et al. Tim-3 adapter protein Bat3 acts as an endogenous regulator of tolerogenic dendritic cell function. Sci Immunol. 2022 Mar 11;7(69):eabm0631. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abm0631. PMID: 35275752.
  Current position: Founder, Helium Trades.

Masters students

• Neha Gupta, MS (Bioinformatics), Boston University.
  Role: Summer research intern and Fall coop student, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021.
  Current position: PhD student at Georgia State University.

• Brad Fortunato, MS (Bioinformatics), Boston University.
  Role: Summer research intern, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021.
  Current position: Associate Computational Biologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Undergraduate students

• Mary Shang, BS (Biology, major and Computer Science, minor), Washington University at St. Louis (WUSTL).
  Role: Summer undergraduate researcher, Cornell University, 2024.
  Current position: Senior at WUSTL.

• Samuel Nitz, BS (Biology and Computer Science), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  Role: MIT UROP, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2019-2020.
  Current position: PhD student at Tri-I (Rockefeller-Weill Cornell-Sloan Kettering) PhD program.

• Alexander Young, BS (Mathematics and Computer Science), Brown University.
  Role: Undergraduate Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2023.
  Current position: Technical Staff at Inceptive, Palo Alto, CA.

• Adriana Payen-Medina, BS (Chemical Engineering), University of Utah.
  Role: Broad Summer Research Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Summer 2022.
  Current position: PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

• Titas Banerjee, BS (Computer Science), Carnegie Mellon University;MD, Stony Brook University.
  Role: Undergraduate Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
  Current position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Oregon Health & Science University.

High-school students

• Valentina Zhang, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022-2024.
  Current position: Freshman, Yale University.

• Keerti Koya, High-school researcher, Mission San Jose High School.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Cornell University, Summer 2024.
  Current position: High-school senior, Mission San Jose High School.

• Raj Saha, High-school researcher, The Roxbury Latin School.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022-2023.
  Current position: High-school senior, The Roxbury Latin School.

• Ishaan Sareen, High-school researcher, American School of London.
  Role: Research Science Institute (RSI) scholar, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2023.
  Current position: Incoming freshman at University of Chicago.

• Tanmay Gupta, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022.
  Current position: Undergraduate at Columbia University (Computer Science).

• Achyutha Rajaram, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2022.
  Current position: Incoming freshman at MIT (Computer Science).

• Anish Mudide, High-school researcher, Phillips Exeter Academy.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2020-2023.
  Associated Work: Wilder AP, Supple MA, Subramanian A, Mudide A, et al. The contribution of historical processes to contemporary extinction risk in placental mammals. Science. 2023 Apr 28;380(6643):eabn5856. doi: 10.1126/science.abn5856. PMID: 37104572.
  Current position: Undergraduate at MIT (Computer Science).

• Varun Suraj, High-school researcher, Lexington High School.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021-2022.
  Current position: Undergraduate at Harvard University.

• Mikhail Alperovich, High-school researcher, Lexington High School.
  Role: High-School Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2019-2021.
  Associated Work: Subramanian A, Alperovich M, Yang Y, Li B. Biology-inspired data-driven quality control for scientific discovery in single-cell transcriptomics. Genome Biol. 2022 Dec 27;23(1):267. doi: 10.1186/s13059-022-02820-w. PMID: 36575523.
  Current position: Senior Software Engineer (EPAM Systems).