Warnow Lab Alumni

• Kevin Atteson, now Chief Quant at Summer Road (computational finance)
• Francois Barbancon, now consultant
• Ruth Davidson
• Dannie Durand, Associate Professor of Biology and of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• Daniel Huson, Professor of Bioinformatics in Tuebingen, Germany
• Libby Levison
• Nam-phuong Nguyen, Associate Director, Computational Biology at 858 Therapeutics
• Ken Rice, retired
• Katherine St John, Full Professor of Computer Science at Hunter College
• Ann Taylor, Emeritus Professor at York University, UK
• Elizabeth Sweedyk, (retired) Associate Professor of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
• Shel Swenson, Senior Lecturer, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Mathematics Department
• Paul Zaharias, Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris, France), working with Olivier Gascuel

• Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid (PhD 2016, student at UT-Austin) - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
• Ganesh Ganapathy (PhD 2006, student at UT-Austin), data scientist at Apple Research, Austin
• Sarah A Christensen, PhD 2020 (co-supervised with Mohammed El-Kebir), now at D.E. Shaw (NYC)
• Baqiao Liu (PhD August 2024, student at UIUC)
• Kevin Liu (PhD 2011, student at UT-Austin) - Associate Professor of Computer Science at Michigan State University
• Siavash Mirarab (PhD 2014, student at UT-Austin) - Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSD
• Erin Molloy (PhD 2020, student at UIUC) - Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Univ Maryland College Park
• Luay Nakhleh (PhD 2004, student at UT-Austin) - Dean of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University
• Serita Nelesen (PhD 2010, student at UT-Austin) - later, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Calvin College, now software developer for Neural Planet
• Nam-phuong Nguyen (PhD 2014, student at UT-Austin and then postdoc in the IGB at UIUC), subsequently at UCSD as a postdoc with CS Prof Vineet Bafna, and now Principal Scientist in Computational Biology at Zentalis Pharmaceuticals. While a postdoc in the IGB at UIUC, he was co-mentored by Prof. Becky Stumpf
• Mike Nute - (PhD 2019, Statistics student at UIUC), Then postdoc at Rice University working with Todd Treangen (Hooding ceremony May 10, 2019 (PDF) (PPTX))
• Usman Roshan (PhD 2004, student at UT-Austin) - Associate Professor in Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Vladimir Smirnov (PhD 2021), postdoc of Richard Durbin at Cambridge University
• Michelle (Shel) Swenson (PhD 2009, student and postdoc at UT-Austin) - Senior Lecturer, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Mathematics Department
• Pranjal Vachaspati (PhD 2019, student at UIUC) - Senior Software Engineer, Toast
• Li-San Wang (PhD 2003, student at UT-Austin) - Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (JPEG)
• Shibu Yooseph (PhD 1997, student at the University of Pennsylvania) - now Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences, Claremont McKenna College

• Gillian Chu, MS PEEC program UIUC 2022, now PhD student at Princeton in CS
• Ashu Gupta, MS 2016, Computer Science, UIUC
• Xilin Yu, MS 2019, Computer Science, UIUC. Now at Google (Seattle).

• University of Texas at Austin (5):
  • K.T. Hughes,
  • Keerthana Kumar,
  • Young-suk Lee (undergraduate advisee at UT-Austin), received PhD from Princeton, working with Prof Olga Toyanskaya (CS), now Assistant Professor at KAIST
  • Christina Skelton (former undergraduate advisee) - later, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows; now University Affiliate, UT-Austin
  • Jerry Sun
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (14)
  • Nikhil Agarwal (spring and summer 2019, UIUC)
  • Yirong Cai (now PhD student at McGill in CS)
  • Nicholas Chen (spring 2019, UIUC)
  • Binghui Cheng (2019, UIUC)
  • Aditi Ghosalkar (summer and fall 2019, UIUC)
  • Maya Gupta (2020-2021, UIUC; now PhD student at Princeton University CS
  • Emma Hamel (2019, UIUC)
  • Dylan Irlbeck (Spring 2019, UIUC)
  • Akhil Jakatdar,, now CS PhD student at Princeton
  • Thien Le (undergraduate advisee at UIUC), now PhD student at MIT EECS
  • Kodi Taraszka (née Collins) (former undergrad RA, now PhD student in CS at UCLA)
  • Ananya Yammanuru (spring, summer, and fall 2019 - now PhD student in CS at UIUC)
  • Qikai Yang (spring 2019, did undergrad thesis with me)
  • Zitao Zhu (spring 2019, UIUC)

Photographs of a reunion with graduate students (PDF) (PPTX)