People

Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD.
PI and Lab DirectorAssistant Professor of Medicine & Core Member
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rutgers Biomedical and

William DeGroat
Senior Research Assistant/Scientist
Elizabeth Peker
Research Assistant/ScientistProject Manager

Rishabh Narayanan
Research Assistant/Scientist
Dinesh Mendhe
Senior Scientific Software Engineer & Bioinformatician
Hammad Farooqi
Research Student/ScientistPrinceton University

Joy Xie
Research Scientist/Student (MD)
Sahana Senthikumar
Research Student/Scientist
Antony Shenouda
Research Student/ScientistKush Patel
Research Student / Scientist
Youssef Mourad
Research Scientist/Student (MD)
Habiba Abdelhalim, BS
Senior Research Assistant/Scientist & Project ManagerStar lab member. Participated in several scientfic projects and publications.
Alumni

Ishani Mhatre
Research Student/ScientistProject: Functional mutation analysis of impactful genes associated with heart failure.
Alumni

Karthikeyan Mayilvahanan
Research ScientistProject: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs
Alumni

Sophia Duenas
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs.
Alumni

Zachary McGee
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs.
Alumni

Sreya Vadapalli, BS/B.Tech.
Research AssistantProject: AI & ML approaches using gene expression and variant data for personalized medicine.
Alumni

Asude Berber, BS
Research ScientistProject: Investigate CVD genes with associated phenotypes among Atrial Fibrillation patients
Alumni

Shreya Ashok
Research ScientistProject: Functional/non-functional mutation analysis of CVD genes among high-risk Heart Failure patients.
Alumni

Achuth Suresh Nair
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Participated in Multiple Bioinformatics, Genomics and Precision Medicine Projects.
Alumni

Cynthia Venkatesan
Research Student/ScientistProject: Multi-omics approaches to identify and investigate genes associated with heart failure
Alumni

Oluchi Nwankwo
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD
Alumni

Atharv Jayprakash
Research Student/ScientistProject: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD
Alumni

Raghunandan Wable
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Participated in Multiple Projects, including Integrated ACMG-approved genes and ICD codes
Alumni

Anirudh Pappu
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Participated in Multiple Projects, including Integrated ACMG-approved genes and ICD codes
Alumni

Atharva Harshavardhan Bhusari
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: AI/ML pipeline development for biomarkers discovery and disease prediction
Alumni

Oluwaferanmi Abraham Omidiran
Research Student/ScientistProject: GWAS advancements to investigate disease associations and biological mechanisms.
Alumni

Neev Sheth
Research Student/ScientistProject: Multimodal AI/ML to identify and investigate genes associated with CVD
Alumni

Alyssa Granito
Research Scientist/Student (MD)Project: "Predictive medicine by analyzing metabolomic data with AI/ML techniques".
Alumni

Sarah Usman
Research Scientist/StudentProject: Rare diseases.
Alumni
Kritika Singh
Research Scientist/Student (MD)Project: Rare diseases.
Alumni

Rishabh Patel
Research Student/ScientistProject: Multi-modal AI/ML with 3D visualization.
Alumni

Nicholas Persaud
Research Scientist/Student (MD)Project: Investigating functional mutations in known human genes among high-risk CVD population
Alumni

Aashna Patel
Research Student/ScientistProject: Role of GWAS in Understanding Human Genetic Variation.
Alumni

Riaad Persaud
Research Scientist/Student (MD)Project: Investigating metabolomics for identifying potential biomarkers for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Alumni

Widnie Pierre-Louis
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Intelligent and integrative genomics data analysis with machine learning algorithms for precision medicine
Alumni

Rachel-Mae Hunter
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: Role of GWAS and polygenic risk score using big data for personalized
Alumni

Vignesh Venkat
Research Assistant/ScientistProject: AI/ML using gene expression data for predicting cardiovascular disease with high accuracy
Alumni

Eduard Gibert Renart, PhD
Postdoctoral ResearcherProject: Scientific solutions development for WGS and RNA-seq driven data processing and visualization.
Alumni

Mudassir Lodi
PhD StudentProject: Implementing Clinical-Genomics in Precision Medicine for CVDs.
Alumni

Rihi Jain
Research StudentProject: Learning role of AI, Healthcare, and Clinical-Genomics approaches in Precision Medicine.
Alumni

Kush K. Patel
Research Scientist/Student (MD)Project: Exploring Genome Wide Association Studies for Precision Medicine
Alumni

Sahil Mittal
Research StudentProject: Learning AI/ML and bioinformatics approaches for genomics and precision medicine
Alumni

Shreyas Bolla
Research StudentProject: Learning AI/ML and bioinformatics approaches for genomics and precision medicine
Alumni
Khalid Mohamed, MS
Research StudentProject: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Data Analytics and Precision Medicine.
Alumni

Jinhong Dong
MD/PhD StudentProject: Investigating genetic and diagnostic clinical data of patients suffering with any cardiovascular diseases.
Alumni

Ruoyun Xiong
PhD StudentProject: Analyzing genes-disease complexes and their clinical relationships for Precision Medicine.
Alumni

Justin Thomas Pranulis, MS
Research StudentProject: MSB at PacBio Sequenced Microbiome-Amplicon Data Embedding Variable Oligonucleotide Combinations.
Alumni
Samuel Asamoah, BS
Research StudentProject: Smart mobile systems development for monitoring and helping patients suffering with critical diseases.
Alumni

Khushbu Patel, BS
Research AssistantProject: Exploring Commercial and Academic Healthcare Systems To Facilitate Practice Transformation.
Alumni

Deepshikha Mishra, PhD.
Postdoc Research AssociateProject: WGS/WES data processing, management, and gene-variant discovery, annotation, prediction, and genotyping.
Alumni

Affrin Ahmed
PhD StudentProject: Structural NGS data analysis, security and de-identification of PHI for Precision Medicine.
Alumni

Samay Nandwana
Research StudentProject: Integrating clinical-diagnosis and genetics codes for Precision Medicine.
Alumni

Uzayr Wasif
Research StudentProject: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD
Alumni