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) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, Sept. 2018.
e-mail: john.wiedenhoeft@chalmers.se
Since 2019: Research Associate, Core Facility, Medical Biometry and Statistical Bioinformatics, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Rajat S Roy
Doctoral Student (2010–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, July 2014.
e-mail: rajatroy@cs.rutgers.edu
Now: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
Md P. Mahmud
Doctoral Student (2010–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Rutgers, May 2014.
e-mail: pavelm@cs.rutgers.edu
Now: Senior software engineer, Google, Inc.
Ivani de Oliveira Negrão Lopes
Doctoral Student (2012–2014) Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, June 2014. Principal advisor: Prof. Dr. Andre de Carvalho.
e-mail: ivani.negrao@embrapa.br
Now: researcher at Embrapa.
Ruben B. Schilling
Doctoral Student (2007–2009) PhD studies 2007–09; Diplom CS, Universität Freiburg (main supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Burkhardt) 2007.
e-mail: ruben.schilling@molgen.mpg.de
Now Technischer Produktmanager @ Digitale Schiene Deutschland.
Benjamin Georgi
Doctoral Student (2005–2009) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2009, Freie Universität Berlin; MSc (2005) and B.Sc. (2003) Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin.
e-mail: georgi@molgen.mpg.de
Now: Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Ivan G Costa
Doctoral Student (2004–2008) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, June 2008, FU Berlin.
e-mail: filho@molgen.mpg.de
Now Professor for computational biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) Aachen, University Hospital Aachen.
Wasinee Rungsarityotin
Doctoral Student (2004–2007) Ph.D. Bioinformatics, Nov. 2007, Freie Universität Berlin.
e-mail: rungsari@molgen.mpg.de
Now Senior Researcher at Mahidol University, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Thailand.
Other Alumni and Visitors
Calle Ekdahl
Research Assistant (2017–2018) Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA.
e-mail: callee@student.chalmers.se
Now: developer with Smart Eye.
John Martinsson
Research Assistant (2017–2018) Project Assistant on Vinnova FFI Grant: BADA-SEMPA; MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2017).
e-mail: mjohn@chalmers.se
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Scott Merkling
Research Assistant (2012–2016) Now: Software Engineer at Twitch
e-mail: sbmerkling@gmail.com
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) DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
e-mail: tlye@eden.rutgers.edu
Now a Ph.D. student at Columbia University
Alice Paul
Undergraduate Student (2011) DIMACS REU Summer student 2011
e-mail: alicejpaul@gmail.com
Now an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Olin College of Engineering https://alicepaul.github.io/
Carolyn Keenan
Undergraduate Student (2010) DIMACS REU Summer student 2010
e-mail: carolyn.keenan@gmail.com
Matthew R. Mitsui
Undergraduate Student (2010) Now: Postdoctoral Associate at InfoSeeking
e-mail: mmitsui@eden.rutgers.edu
Christoph Hafemeister
Research Assistant (2006–2009) M.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2008.
e-mail: hafemeis@molgen.mpg.de
Now: Postdoctoral research associate at the New York Genome Center.
Janne Grunau
Research Assistant (2005–2008) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2005.
e-mail: grunau@molgen.mpg.de
Jonas Heise
Research Assistant (2003–2005) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2004.
e-mail: heise@molgen.mpg.de
Ben Rich
Research Assistant (2003–2004)
e-mail: rich@molgen.mpg.de
Harindar Keer
Staff (2002–2003) Now: founder of flixstock.com.
e-mail: hkeer@uci.edu
Former B.Sc. and M.Sc. students
Filip Helmroth
M.Sc. Student (2023) AI for infectious diseases: Deep regression for VLMC distances. M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.
e-mail:
Emil Wingärdh
M.Sc. Student (2023) Predicting Oligonucleotide Thermodynamics using Deep Learning
e-mail:
Katalin Ferenc
M.Sc. Student (2021) Computational analysis and data mining of drug-induced transcriptional changes. Project with AstraZeneca. M.Sc. Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg.
e-mail:
Hildur Egilsdottir
M.Sc. Student (2020) M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers. With Fredrik Johanson (CSE) and Erik Portelius, Kaj Blennow, and Henrik Zetterberg (Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Luca Bello
M.Sc. Student (2020) Machine learning for big sequence data: Wavelet-compressed Hidden Markov Models. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.
e-mail:
Tulga Ariuntuya
M.Sc. Student (2020) AI graders for Python programming tasks. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.
e-mail:
Jan Qvick
M.Sc. Student (2019–2020) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2020). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Daniel Brunnsåker
M.Sc. Student (2019–2020) 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.
e-mail:
Sharan Sabi
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).
e-mail:
Sebastian Norlin
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Gabriel Alpsten
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2019) with Ellinor Rånge (Ericsson).
e-mail:
Sören Richard Stahlschmidt
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Maria Luisa Guerriero (AstraZeneca).
e-mail:
Natalia Jurczynska
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Volvo Car Group.
e-mail:
Arnaud Moulis
M.Sc. Student (2019) MSc in Applied Data Science, University of Gothenburg (2019). Joint project with Emotra AB.
e-mail:
Erik Norlander
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Norberg (Virology, Sahlgrenska).
e-mail:
Björn Hedström
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers).
e-mail:
Ivar Josefsson
M.Sc. Student (2018) MSc in Computer Science (MPALG), Chalmers (2018). Joint project with Peter Damaschke (CSE, Chalmers)
e-mail:
Simon Persson
M.Sc. Student (2017) Machine Learning for Personalized Diabetes Management using Continuous Sensing}. M.Sc. MPALG Computer Science and Engineering. Chalmers.
e-mail:
Edvin Listo Zec
M.Sc. Student (2017) MSc Engineering Mathematics and Computational Science, Chalmers (2017) with Nasser Mohammadiha, Volvo Car Group.
e-mail:
Now: Machine learning researcher at RISE AI (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Paul Piwowarczyk
M.Sc. Student (2008) Diplom Bioinformatik, FH Oldenburg
e-mail: paulpiwowarczyk@googlemail.com
Jian Li
B.Sc. Student (2007) Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin, 2007
e-mail: jli@inf.fu-berlin.de
Marco Rügen
B.Sc. Student (2007) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, Freie Universität Berlin 2007.
e-mail: m.ruegen@gmx.de
Now bioinformatics researcher at Humboldt University
Michael Turewicz
M.Sc. Student (2006–2007) Diplom Bioinformatics 2007, MLU Halle
e-mail: miantur@web.de
Now group leader for Computational Quantitative Proteomics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Michael Seifert
M.Sc. Student (2006) Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle
e-mail: seifert@ipk-gatersleben.de
Now Group leader, Bioinformatics Core Unit at the Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, TU Dresden.
Lennart Opitz
M.Sc. Student (2006) Diplom Bioinformatics 2006, MLU Halle (jointly with Stefan Posch, Halle)
e-mail: lopitz@uni-goettingen.de
Now: Specialist Genome Informatics, Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich
Alexander Riemer
B.Sc. Student (2005) B.Sc. Bioinformatics, FU Berlin 2005
e-mail: riemer@zib.de
Ph.D. student at TU Braunschweig.
Matthias Heinig
M.Sc. Student (2005) Now: Junior Group Leader Genetic and Epigenetic Gene Regulation
e-mail: heinig@molgen.mpg.de
Andrea Weisse
B.Sc. Student (2003) Internship and B.Sc. Bioinformatics 2003, Freie Univesität Berlin
e-mail: andrea.weisse@nuim.ie
Now: Research associate, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College.