Group Members

Alexander Schliep

Head
office: 9.323
phone: ‭+49-355-5818-721‬
e-mail: alexander@schlieplab.org

Katharina Mansfeld

Administrator
office: 9.322
phone: +49-355-5818-720‬
e-mail: katharina.mansfeld@b-tu.de

Aiswarya Radhakrishnan

Intern (since 2024)
Automated Testing and Benchmarking of ML code
e-mail: radhaais@b-tu.de

Aleksandra Khatova

Doctoral Student (since 2023)
office: 9.315
phone: ‭+49-355-5818-723
e-mail: aleksandra.khatova@b-tu.de

Ebin Joseph

M.Sc. Student (since 2024)
e-mail: ebin.joseph@b-tu.de

Joel Gustafsson

Doctoral Student (since 2019)
Joint Ph.D. student with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska) funded by FORMAS.
office: 479.00.001
phone: +46-70-6997-644
e-mail: me@joelgustafsson.com

Nathalie Gocht

Doctoral Student (since 2023)
office: 9.321
phone: ‭+49-355-5818-737
e-mail: nathalie.gocht@b-tu.de

Seyedarash Ayatollahi

Research Assistant (since 2024)
e-mail: ayatosey@b-tu.de

Shirin Tavara

Postdoctoral Scientist (since 2017)
Ph.D. student until June 2022. Postdoc from Oct 2022 funded by DDLS-WASP
office: D&IT 5117
phone: +46-31-772-1095
e-mail: tavara@chalmers.se

Simon Johansson

Doctoral Student (since 2019)
Industrial PhD student with AstraZeneca (industrial supervisor: Ola Engkvist) funded by WASP-AS.
office: D&IT 5449
e-mail: simon.johansson@astrazeneca.com

Former Ph.D. students

Tobias Johansson

Doctoral Student (2019–2022)
e-mail: tobias.johansson@volvocars.com

John Wiedenhoeft

Doctoral Student (2011–2018)
e-mail: john.wiedenhoeft@chalmers.se

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, Sept. 2018.
Since 2019: Research Associate, Core Facility, Medical Biometry and Statistical Bioinformatics, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Rajat S Roy

Doctoral Student (2010–2014)
e-mail: rajatroy@cs.rutgers.edu

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, July 2014.
Now: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA)

Md P. Mahmud

Doctoral Student (2010–2014)
e-mail: pavelm@cs.rutgers.edu

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, May 2014.
Now: Senior software engineer, Google, Inc.

Ivani de Oliveira Negrão Lopes

Doctoral Student (2012–2014)
e-mail: ivani.negrao@embrapa.br

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, June 2014. Principal advisor: Prof. Dr. Andre de Carvalho.
Now: researcher at Embrapa.

Ruben B. Schilling

Doctoral Student (2007–2009)
e-mail: ruben.schilling@molgen.mpg.de

PhD studies 2007–09; Diplom CS, Universität Freiburg (main supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Burkhardt) 2007.
Now Technischer Produktmanager @ Digitale Schiene Deutschland.

Benjamin Georgi

Doctoral Student (2005–2009)
e-mail: georgi@molgen.mpg.de

Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2009, Freie Universität Berlin; MSc (2005) and B.Sc. (2003) Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin.
Now: Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

Wasinee Rungsarityotin

Doctoral Student (2004–2007)
e-mail: rungsari@molgen.mpg.de

Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Nov. 2007, Freie Universität Berlin.
Now Senior Researcher at Mahidol University, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Thailand.

Other Alumni and Visitors

Calle Ekdahl

Research Assistant (2017–2018)
e-mail: callee@student.chalmers.se

Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA.
Now: developer with Smart Eye.

John Martinsson

Research Assistant (2017–2018)
e-mail: mjohn@chalmers.se

Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA; MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2017).
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Scott Merkling

Research Assistant (2012–2016)
e-mail: sbmerkling@gmail.com

Now: Software Engineer at Twitch

Eric J Brugel

Research Assistant (2013–2015)
e-mail: ejb177@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Daniel Z Kaplan

Research Assistant (2013)
e-mail: danzk87@eden.rutgers.edu

Jonathan Shao

Undergraduate Student (2012–2013)
e-mail: jonshao@eden.rutgers.edu

Theresa Lye

Undergraduate Student (2012)
e-mail: tlye@eden.rutgers.edu

DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
Now a Ph.D. student at Columbia University

Alice Paul

Undergraduate Student (2011)
e-mail: alicejpaul@gmail.com

DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
Now an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Olin College of Engineering https://alicepaul.github.io/

Carolyn Keenan

Undergraduate Student (2010)
e-mail: carolyn.keenan@gmail.com

DIMACS REU Summer student 2010

Matthew R. Mitsui

Undergraduate Student (2010)
e-mail: mmitsui@eden.rutgers.edu

Now: Postdoctoral Associate at InfoSeeking

Christoph Hafemeister

Research Assistant (2006–2009)
e-mail: hafemeis@molgen.mpg.de

M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2008.
Now: Postdoctoral research associate at the New York Genome Center.

Janne Grunau

Research Assistant (2005–2008)
e-mail: grunau@molgen.mpg.de

B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2005.

Jonas Heise

Research Assistant (2003–2005)
e-mail: heise@molgen.mpg.de

B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2004.

Ben Rich

Research Assistant (2003–2004)
e-mail: rich@molgen.mpg.de

Harindar Keer

Staff (2002–2003)
e-mail: hkeer@uci.edu

Now: founder of flixstock.com.

Former B.Sc. and M.Sc. students

Filip Helmroth

M.Sc. Student (2023)
e-mail:

AI for infectious diseases: Deep regression for VLMC distances. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.

Emil Wingärdh

M.Sc. Student (2023)
e-mail:

Predicting Oligonucleotide Thermodynamics using Deep Learning

Katalin Ferenc

M.Sc. Student (2021)
e-mail:

Computational analysis and data mining of drug-induced transcriptional changes. Project with AstraZeneca. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg.

Hildur Egilsdottir

M.Sc. Student (2020)
e-mail:

M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers. With Fredrik Johanson (CSE) and Erik Portelius, Kaj Blennow, and Henrik Zetterberg (Sahlgrenska).

Luca Bello

M.Sc. Student (2020)
e-mail:

Machine learning for big sequence data: Wavelet-compressed Hidden Markov Models. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.

Tulga Ariuntuya

M.Sc. Student (2020)
e-mail:

AI graders for Python programming tasks. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.

Jan Qvick

M.Sc. Student (2019–2020)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2020). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).

Daniel Brunnsåker

M.Sc. Student (2019–2020)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science, Chalmers (2020). Joint project with Johanna Sagemark and Bino John (AstraZeneca).

Assessment of Machine Learning Approaches for the Construction of an In Silico Liver Toxicity Model for Drug Development. Project with AstraZeneca. M.Sc. Bioengineering. Chalmers.

Sharan Sabi

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).

Sebastian Norlin

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).

Gabriel Alpsten

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).

Sören Richard Stahlschmidt

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Maria Luisa Guerriero (AstraZeneca).

Natalia Jurczynska

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Volvo Car Group.

Arnaud Moulis

M.Sc. Student (2019)
e-mail:

MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Emotra AB.

Erik Norlander

M.Sc. Student (2018)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).

Björn Hedström

M.Sc. Student (2018)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers).

Ivar Josefsson

M.Sc. Student (2018)
e-mail:

MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers)

Simon Persson

M.Sc. Student (2017)
e-mail:

Machine Learning for Personalized Diabetes Management using Continuous Sensing}. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.

Edvin Listo Zec

M.Sc. Student (2017)
e-mail:

MSc Engineering Mathematics and Computational Science, Chalmers (2017) with Nasser Mohammadiha, Volvo Car Group.
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Paul Piwowarczyk

M.Sc. Student (2008)
e-mail: paulpiwowarczyk@googlemail.com

Diplom Bioinformatik, FH Oldenburg

Jian Li

B.Sc. Student (2007)
e-mail: jli@inf.fu-berlin.de

Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2007

Marco Rügen

B.Sc. Student (2007)
e-mail: m.ruegen@gmx.de

B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin 2007.
Now bioinformatics researcher at Humboldt University

Michael Turewicz

M.Sc. Student (2006–2007)
e-mail: miantur@web.de

Diplom Bioinformatics 2007, MLU Halle
Now group leader for Computational Quantitative Proteomics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Lennart Opitz

M.Sc. Student (2006)
e-mail: lopitz@uni-goettingen.de

Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle (jointly with Stefan Posch, Halle)
Now: Spe­cial­ist Gen­ome In­form­at­ics, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich

Alexander Riemer

B.Sc. Student (2005)
e-mail: riemer@zib.de

B.Sc. Bioinformatics, FU Berlin 2005
Ph.D. student at TU Braunschweig.

Andrea Weisse

B.Sc. Student (2003)
e-mail: andrea.weisse@nuim.ie

Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics 2003, Freie Univesität Berlin
Now: Research associate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College.