People

Lab Members

Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD.

PI and Lab Director

Assistant 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/Scientist

Project Manager

Rishabh Narayanan

Research Assistant/Scientist

Dinesh Mendhe

Senior Scientific Software Engineer & Bioinformatician

Hammad Farooqi

Research Student/Scientist

Princeton University

Joy Xie

Research Scientist/Student (MD)

Sahana Senthikumar

Research Student/Scientist

Antony Shenouda

Research Student/Scientist

Kush Patel

Research Student / Scientist

Youssef Mourad

Research Scientist/Student (MD)

Alumni

Habiba Abdelhalim, BS

Senior Research Assistant/Scientist & Project Manager

Star lab member. Participated in several scientfic projects and publications.

Alumni

Ishani Mhatre

Research Student/Scientist

Project: Functional mutation analysis of impactful genes associated with heart failure.

Alumni

Karthikeyan Mayilvahanan

Research Scientist

Project: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs

Alumni

Sophia Duenas

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs.

Alumni

Zachary McGee

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Investigating relationship between periodontists and CVDs.

Alumni

Sreya Vadapalli, BS/B.Tech.

Research Assistant

Project: AI & ML approaches using gene expression and variant data for personalized medicine.

Alumni

Asude Berber, BS

Research Scientist

Project: Investigate CVD genes with associated phenotypes among Atrial Fibrillation patients

Alumni

Shreya Ashok

Research Scientist

Project: Functional/non-functional mutation analysis of CVD genes among high-risk Heart Failure patients.

Alumni

Achuth Suresh Nair

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Participated in Multiple Bioinformatics, Genomics and Precision Medicine Projects.

Alumni

Cynthia Venkatesan

Research Student/Scientist

Project: Multi-omics approaches to identify and investigate genes associated with heart failure

Alumni

Oluchi Nwankwo

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD

Alumni

Atharv Jayprakash

Research Student/Scientist

Project: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD

Alumni

Raghunandan Wable

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Participated in Multiple Projects, including Integrated ACMG-approved genes and ICD codes

Alumni

Anirudh Pappu

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Participated in Multiple Projects, including Integrated ACMG-approved genes and ICD codes

Alumni

Atharva Harshavardhan Bhusari

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: AI/ML pipeline development for biomarkers discovery and disease prediction

Alumni

Oluwaferanmi Abraham Omidiran

Research Student/Scientist

Project: GWAS advancements to investigate disease associations and biological mechanisms.

Alumni

Neev Sheth

Research Student/Scientist

Project: 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/Student

Project: Rare diseases.

Alumni

Kritika Singh

Research Scientist/Student (MD)

Project: Rare diseases.

Alumni

Rishabh Patel

Research Student/Scientist

Project: 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/Scientist

Project: 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/Scientist

Project: Intelligent and integrative genomics data analysis with machine learning algorithms for precision medicine

Alumni

Rachel-Mae Hunter

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: Role of GWAS and polygenic risk score using big data for personalized

Alumni

Vignesh Venkat

Research Assistant/Scientist

Project: AI/ML using gene expression data for predicting cardiovascular disease with high accuracy

Alumni

Eduard Gibert Renart, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Project: Scientific solutions development for WGS and RNA-seq driven data processing and visualization.

Alumni

Mudassir Lodi

PhD Student

Project: Implementing Clinical-Genomics in Precision Medicine for CVDs.

Alumni

Rihi Jain

Research Student

Project: 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 Student

Project: Learning AI/ML and bioinformatics approaches for genomics and precision medicine

Alumni

Shreyas Bolla

Research Student

Project: Learning AI/ML and bioinformatics approaches for genomics and precision medicine

Alumni

Khalid Mohamed, MS

Research Student

Project: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Data Analytics and Precision Medicine.

Alumni

Jinhong Dong

MD/PhD Student

Project: Investigating genetic and diagnostic clinical data of patients suffering with any cardiovascular diseases.

Alumni

Ruoyun Xiong

PhD Student

Project: Analyzing genes-disease complexes and their clinical relationships for Precision Medicine.

Alumni

Justin Thomas Pranulis, MS

Research Student

Project: MSB at PacBio Sequenced Microbiome-Amplicon Data Embedding Variable Oligonucleotide Combinations.

Alumni

Samuel Asamoah, BS

Research Student

Project: Smart mobile systems development for monitoring and helping patients suffering with critical diseases.

Alumni

Khushbu Patel, BS

Research Assistant

Project: Exploring Commercial and Academic Healthcare Systems To Facilitate Practice Transformation.

Alumni

Deepshikha Mishra, PhD.

Postdoc Research Associate

Project: WGS/WES data processing, management, and gene-variant discovery, annotation, prediction, and genotyping.

Alumni

Affrin Ahmed

PhD Student

Project: Structural NGS data analysis, security and de-identification of PHI for Precision Medicine.

Alumni

Samay Nandwana

Research Student

Project: Integrating clinical-diagnosis and genetics codes for Precision Medicine.

Alumni

Uzayr Wasif

Research Student

Project: Bioinformatics approaches to investigate the relationship between DOC and CVD

Alumni