Former Affiliates

Former Senior Scientists

Henry Abarbanel - Professor, Department of Physics, University of California – San Diego
Eshel Ben-Jacob - CTBP Founding Senior Scientist
Charles L. Brooks III – Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan
Olga K. Dudko – Associate Professor of Physics, University of California – San Diego
Terence Hwa – Professor of Physics, University of California  - San Diego
Bo Li – Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California – San Diego
J. Andrew McCammon – Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California – San Diego
Wouter-Jan Rappel – Principal Investigator, Rappel Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California – San Diego
Terrence J. Sejnowski - Professor and Laboratory Head, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Tatyana O. Sharpee – Associate Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Wei Wang – Principal Investigator, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California – San Diego

Postdoctoral Fellows/Associates to Academic Positions

Rommie Amaro – Assistant Professor, University of California – San Diego: 2009
Riccardo Baron – Assistant Professor, University of Utah: 2011
Marcus Basan – Research Scientist, ETH Switzerland: 2013
Kinshuk Banerjee - AJC Bose College, Kolkata, India: 2017
Chia-en Chang - Assistant Professor, University of California - Riverside: 2008
Patricio Craig – Assistant Professor, University Buenos Aires - Argentina: 2013
Diego Ferreiro – Professor, University of Buenos Aires - Argentina: 2009
Alemayehu Gorfe - Assistant Professor, University of Texas Medical School - Houston: 2009
Shachi Gosavi – Assistant Professor, National Center for Biological Sciences - India: 2009
Barry Grant – Assistant Professor, University of Michigan:  2011
Rutger Hermsen – Assistant Professor, University of Utrecht - Netherlands: 2012
Inbal Hecht – Senior Researcher, Tel Aviv University: 2010
Changbong Hyeon – Professor, Korea Institute Advanced Study - Korea:  2008
Ivaylo Ivanov – Assistant Professor Georgia State University:  2009
Biman Jana – Assistant Professor Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science: 2014
Mohit Jolly - Professor, Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Bangalore, India
Minsu Kim – Assistant Professor, Emory University: 2013
Minjoon Kouh – Assistant Professor, Drew University:  2009
Stefan Klumpp – Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces - Postdam - Germany:  2009
Erel Levine – Assistant Professor, Harvard University:  2008
Jian Liu – Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health / National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute:  2008
Courtney Lepreore –Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tulane University:  2008
Ben-Zhuo Lu – Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2008
Mingyang Lu - Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory
Peter McHale – Project Scientist, UC Irvine:  2009
Louis McLane - Visiting Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
William McLaughlin – Assistant Professor, The Commonwealth Medical College:  2008
Faruck Morcos - Assistant Professor, Center for Systems Biology, University of Texas at Dallas
Suhita Nadkarni – Assistant Professor, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research - India:  2012
Jeffrey Noel - Humboldt Fellow, Max Delbruck Center and Fritz Haber Institute
Davit Potoyan - Caldwell Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept., Iowa State University: 2017
Alexander Schug - Helmholtz Group Leader, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Germany:  2011
Matt Scott – Associate Professor, University of Waterloo - Canada:  2010
Li Shen – Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine:  2009
Tongye Shen – Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee:  2008
Joanna Sulkowska – Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw - Poland:  2012
Zhongming Wang – Assistant Professor, Florida International University:  2011
Adam Van Wynsberghe – Assistant Professor, Hamilton College:  2009
Paul Whitford – Assistant Professor, North Eastern University:  2012
Heng Xu - Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Bin Zhang - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, MIT
Yongcheng Zhou – Assistant Professor, Colorado State University:  2008


Postdoctoral Fellows/Associates to Industrial Positions

Deepak Chandran - Principle Research Scientist, Autodesk
Jingchen Feng - Google Research
Justin Gullingsrud – Scientific Programmer, D. E. Shaw Research:  2008
Ilya Khavrutskii - Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute:  2012
Jie Liu – Pathway Genomics San Diego
Mary Rohrdanz - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Samuel Skinner - Bioinformatician, Benarova Research Institute, Abbot Laboratories
Sarah Williams – Novartis
Vladislav Volman – Applied Technologies:  2012
Julianne Zimmermann - Consultant, Prodyna

Postdoctoral to Postdoctoral

Pushpita Ghosh - TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Research, India (Visiting Fellow)
Xingchen Lin - MIT, Cambridge, MA
Pintu Patra - Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, Germany: 2018
Jordane Preto - University of Alberta, Canada
Leonard Sepulveda - Harvard University: 2016

Graduate Students to Professorial Positions

Sam Cho – Wake Forest University: graduated 2007
Thomas Kuhlman - University of Illinois: graduated 2007
Joachin Latzer – University of San Diego: graduated 2007
Ting Lu – University of Illinois: graduated 2007
David Minh – Illinois Institute of Technology: graduated 2007
Aleksandra Walczak – Ecole Normale Supérieure France: graduated 2007
Paul Whitford – North Eastern University: graduated 2009
Sichun Yang – Case Western University: graduated 2007
Chenghang  Zong – Baylor College of Medicine: graduated 2007

Graduate Students to Postdoctoral Positions

Elizabeth Baxter – Research Scientist Synectics: graduated 2013
Anat Burger – Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University: graduated 2012
Wen Chen – Graduate Student University Maryland: graduated 2011
Mikolai Fajer – Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Chicago: graduated 2013
Leif Gibb – Postdoctoral Fellowship MIT: graduated 2009
Ryan Hayes - Postdoctoral Position University of Michigan
Bo Hu – Postdoctoral Fellowship IBM: graduated 2012
Morgan Lawrenz – Postdoctoral Fellowship Stanford University: graduated 2011
Jeff Noel – Postdoctoral Fellowship Rice University: graduated 2012
Daniel Schultz – Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University: graduated 2009
Stuart Sevier - Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT 2018
Danying Shao – financial industry: graduated 2012
John Shopple – software developer: graduated 2009
Robert Swift – Postdoctoral Fellowship UCSD: graduated 2009
Bryan Toth – Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Washington: graduated 2011
Ha Truong - U.C. Berkeley
Laura Tucker – Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University: graduated 2010
Shenshen Wang – Postdoctoral Fellowship MIT: graduated 2012
Patrick Weinkam – Data Scientist Applied Intelligence: graduated 2009
Scott Wylie – Postdoctoral Fellowship Brown University: graduated 2010
Fernando Yrazu - Postdoctoral Research Associate Rice University

Graduate Student to Medical Student

Taejin (Lance) Min - Baylor College of Medicine

Graduate Students to Industrial Positions

Xiaoyu Bai - Facebook
Yi Bao - MANA Partners, LLC, New York, NY
Man Chen - Data Scientist, Two Sigma
Nathan Eddy
Pu Han - Project Engineer, Google
Bobby Kim - Data Scientist, Bloomberg Law
Patrick Mears - Systems Integration Engineer, Abbott Laboratories: 2014
Lok-Hang So - MTR Corporation
Zhipeng Wang - Research Scientist, Personalized Healthcare Data Science, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Linglin Yu – Software Engineer, XTAL Incorporated, San Jose, CA

REU Student to Undergraduate Student

Neel Radia - Undergraduate, Rice University

Frontiers in Science Summer Intern to Graduate Student

Luis H. Victor - PhD in Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX