Team
Pablo G. Cámara, PhD (Principal Investigator)
Pablo G. Camara is an Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and a faculty member of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics and the AI2D Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics. His research interests span questions related to the cellular and molecular organization of the brain and brain tumors, as well as the application of mathematical principles to the analysis of high-dimensional omics and imaging data to answer these questions. More broadly, he is interested in understanding the geometric and topological structure of information in biological and physical systems. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain in 2006, and continued research in this field through fellowships at the Ecole Polytechnique in France, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, and the University of Barcelona. Fascinated by fundamental questions in biomedicine, in 2014 he shifted his research focus to problems in quantitative biology. From 2014 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Systems Biology Department at Columbia University (New York City) and a research associate in the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), after which he joined the University of Pennsylvania as a faculty member. Apart from his research activity, he co-directs the graduate course GCB5330 “Statistics for Genomics and Biomedical Informatics”.
Elijah Gunther (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Elijah is a postdoctoral researcher who is interested in applying mathematical techniques to biology, in particular those from metric geometry. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2023 from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Dr. Mona Merling. His background is in algebraic topology and category theory. He graduated from Yale in 2018 with a B.S. in Mathematics.
Robert Hu (Ph.D. Student)
Robert is a graduate student from the Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB). He is interested in integrating single-cell and spatial omics data to better characterize the mechanisms regulating development and disease.
Minh Nguyen (Ph.D. Student)
Minh is a graduate student in the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group - Genetics and Epigenetics (CAMB - G&E). She graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics. She is interested in applying quantitative methods to uncover the molecular etiology of complex diseases.
Patrick Nicodemus (Application Developer)
Patrick has a B. S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Penn State, and an M. A. in Mathematics from UW-Madison. His background includes research in category theory, logic, and topology. He is interested in the applications of topology and geometry to concrete problems.
Sriya Potluri (Rotation Student)
Sriya is an MD/PhD student from the Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB). She is interested in the applications of mathematical modeling to guide clinical decision-making and improve disease diagnosis and treatment. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2023 with a B.S. in Mathematics and High Honors in Biology.
Annan Timon (Ph.D. Student)
Annan is a graduate student from the Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB). He is interested in gene regulatory mechanisms, with a special focus on eukaryotic transcriptional regulation in cancer and development.
Lincoln Wu (Application Developer)
Lincoln is an application developer who is interested in applying computational techniques to answer questions in biology. He graduated in 2022 from Drexel University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences.
Tim Yang (Ph.D. Student)
Tim is a graduate student in the Bioengineering Ph.D. program. His work is to apply computational knowledge to biological systems. He is especially interested in biomedical informatics.
Alumni
Rachael Aubin (2018-2023), PhD student in Bioengineering, currently a computational biologist at Moderna
Kiya Govek (2018 - 2022), computational research assistant, currently a Systems Analyst at Jackson Laboratories
Emma Troisi (2018 - 2022), wet-lab research specialist, currently a PhD student at John Hopkins University
Jake Gurevitch (2021 - 2022), undergraduate student (Vagelos Program in the Molecular Life Sciences), currently an Entry Level Analyst at ClearView Healthcare Partners
Javier Montelongo (2020 - 2022), post-baccalaureate student, currently an MD student at Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Adam Alghalith (2019 - 2020), undergraduate student (Vagelos Program in the Molecular Life Sciences), currently an MD/PhD student at UCLA/Caltech
Steven Woodhouse (2018 - 2020), postdoctoral researcher, currently a research fellow in Computational Cancer Biology at the University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
Venkata Yamajala (2018), part-time developer, currently a full-time developer at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University
