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

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

Ivan G Costa

Doctoral Student (2004–2008)
e-mail: filho@molgen.mpg.de

Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2008, FU Berlin.
Now Professor for computational biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) Aachen, University Hospital Aachen.

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

Aiswarya Radhakrishnan

Intern (2024)
e-mail: radhaais@b-tu.de

Automated Testing and Benchmarking of ML code

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.

Marcilio C. Pereira de Souto

Guest (2006–2007)
e-mail: marcilio.souto@molgen.mpg.de

Now: Full professor at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO) at the University of Orléans (France).

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.