Roth Laboratory

The Roth Lab

Frederick "Fritz" Roth	Professor and Chair, Dept of Computational & Systems Biology	fritzpitt.edu
Warren van Loggerenberg	Assistant Professor	WAV14pitt.edu
Amanda Shaheen	Administrative Assistant	ams983pitt.edu	416 586 4800 ext 3292
Michael Chambers	Research Scientist	mjc424pitt.edu
Ada Weber	Research Technician	jmw317pitt.edu
Zeynep Yilmaz	Postdoctoral Fellow (jointly advised by Prof. Mert Gur)	YILMAZSpitt.edu
Zak Dahmani	PhD Student, Integrative Systems Biology Program	ZAKARIApitt.edu
Peiyun Sang	PhD Student, Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Program	PES136pitt.edu
Vignesh Senguttuvan	PhD Student, Joint CMU/Pitt Computational Biology Program	VIS176pitt.edu
Tian Yi (Cindy) Zhang	PhD Student, Joint CMU/Pitt Computational Biology Program	CIZ8pitt.edu

Information on positions available in the Roth lab.

Former lab members... where are they now?

Former postdoctoral fellows

Mariana Babor	Senior Manager, Computational Biology	DarwinHealth
Hon Nian (Kenny) Chua	CTO	FeatureByte
Murat Cokol	Director of Computational Biology	Axcella
Rahul Deo	Chief Product Officer	Atman Health
aDNAn Derti	Computational Biologist	Vindhya Data Science
J. Javier Diaz-Mejia	Senior Bioinformatics Analyst	DNAstack
Hanane Ennajdaoui	Principal Consultant, Biotech Operations	FluidForm Bio
Debra Goldberg	Director and Chief Executive Officer	Cage-Free Learning
Dae-Kyum Kim	Assistant Professor	McGill University
Oliver King	Assistant Professor	University of Massachusetts Medical School
Yong Lu	Software Engineer	Google
Joe Mellor	Founder and CSO	SeqWell LLC
Gabe Musso	Chief Scientific Officer	BioSymetrics, Inc.
Sedide Ozturk	Senior Director of Corporate Development	Freenome
Evangelia Petsalaki	Director of Oncology Data Science Innovation	GSK
Song Sun	Unit Head of High-throughput Sequencing	Sanofi Pasteur
Yo Suzuki	Assistant Professor	J. Craig Venter Institute
Murat Taşan	Principal	AlgoInformatics
Weidong Tian	Professor	Fudan University
Nozomu Yachie	Professor	University of British Columbia and Osaka University

Former staff

University of Toronto

John Beaver	Software Engineering Manager	Amazon Web Services
Gabriel Berriz	Research Associate in Medicine	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Wai Wa (Ray) Chan	Lab Research Project Coordinator	The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Atina Cote	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Julie Dunham	Director, Product Management & Marketing	Conavi Medical
Frank Gibbons	Director, GI modeling team lead	Takeda
Paul Bansal	Staff Pharmacist	Remedy'sRx
Kirby Fawcett	Field Service Technician	Waters Corporation
Marinella Gebbia	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Anjali Gopal	Research Scientist, Bioengineering	Anthropic
Nishka Kishore	Scientific Associate	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Jennifer Knapp	Microbiology Research Coordinator	University of Waterloo
Roujia Li	Bioinformatician	Deep Genomics
Natascha van Lieshout	Technical Advisor	SURF collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research
Maria Nguyen	Research Technician	University of Toronto
Oxana Pogoutse
Ashyad Rayhan	Research Operations Officer	University of Toronto
Miha Skalic	Senior Research Scientist	Boehringer Ingelheim
Marta Verby	Senior Director Of Laboratory Operations	Deep Genomics

Former PhD students

Anna Axakova	Postdoctoral Fellow	Francis Crick Institute
Albi Celaj	Director, Machine Learning/AI Lab	Deep Genomics
Can Cenik	Associate Professor	University of Texas, Austin
Justin Klekota	Principal, Life Sciences	Arrayo
Suzanne Komili	Yogini	SuzanneKomili.com
Kevin Kuang	CEO	Pillarix
Mikkel Oestergaard	Executive Director, Health Technology Assessment	MSD
Dayag Sheykhkarimli	Postdoctoral Fellow	University of British Columbia
Adrine de Souza	Variant Scientist	The Hospital for Sick Children
Daniel Tabet	Postdoctoral Fellow	Broad Institute
Kevin Wang	Graduate Student	University of Toronto
Jochen Weile	Senior Research Associate	University of Toronto
Sharyl Wong	Sr. Medical Science Director	Genentech
Yingzhou (Joe) Wu	Director of AI	Fable Therapeutics
(Sunny) Fan Yang	Professor	Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lan Zhang	CEO	Crimson Gateway
Daniel Zimmerman	Variant Assessment Scientist	Ambry Genetics

Former Master's students

Aditya Chawla	Associate Scientist	OmniaBio
Adam Gravitis	VP Engineering	Upverter
Rong Huang	Machine Learning Engineer	Meta
Rosanna Jiang	Lab Manager & Research Technician	Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto
Sornnujah Kathirgamanathan	Bioinformatics Solutions Specialist	Illumina, Inc.
Minjeong Ko	Bioinformatics Engineer	Quest Diagnostics
Siyang Li	Staff Data Scientist	Google
Mailoan Panchalingam	MSc Student, Medical Genomics	University of Toronto
Polina Polunina	PhD Student	University of Freiburg
Takafumi Yamaguchi	Senior Bioinformatician	UCLA, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Former undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students

Justin Burgener	Bioinformatic Scientist	Adela, Inc.
Dilay Cansever	Scientist	Pattern Biosciences
Carmela Carrero	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Jack Castelli	Postdoctoral Fellow	Stanford Univ.
Ziyi Dai	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Sam Douville	Associate Medical Advisor, Breast Cancer	AstraZeneca
Tiffany Fong	Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs Associate	Sentrex Health Solutions
Iosifina Fotiadou	PhD Student	University of Toronto
Giovanni Franklin	Mathématicien	IGT
Michelle Gavac	Microbiology Technologist	Trillium Health Partners
Gaurav Gupta	Software Engineer	Google
Ghazal Haddad	Resident Physician	McMaster University
Meng Xiao He	Director & Senior Principal Scientist	Genentech
Luke Hunter	Emergency Medicine Physician	Baylor College of Medicine
Julia Kitaygorodsky	Postdoctoral Research Scientist	Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute
Justin Komisarof	MD/PhD Student	University of Rochester
Bingruo (Betty) Liu	Swanson Fellow	The Column Group
Karen Liu	Data Scientist	Apple
Joanna McCulloch	Owner	Mountain Shadow Nursery
Louai Musa	Medical Resident	Family Medicine, Abbotsford, BC
Beste Mutlu	Scientific Editor	Cell Press
Ted Pak	Assistant Professor	University of California, Irvine
D'Arcy Prendergast	Medical Genetics Resident	Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Jonathan Roth	Postdoctoral Researcher	MIT Koch Institute
Gireesh Seesankar	Equity Research Associate	Bloom Burton & Co
Xinlei Sheng	Postdoctoral Scholar	University of Chicago
Rachel Silverstein	Postdoctoral Fellow	MIT
Olivia Taverniti	Graduate Student	University of Toronto
Tanya Tyagi	MBA Consultant	Mente
Cathy Tie	Founder	Origin Genomics
Cassandra Wong	Operations Manager, Proteomics Facility	Mount Sinai Hospital
Ping Wu	Scientist	Genentech
YiFan Zhang	PhD Student	University of Southern California
Shijie (Tina) Zhou	Cardiology Resident	University of Toronto

Former visiting scientists

Kyoungho Suk	Associate Professor	Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, S. Korea
Zohar Weinstein	Physician	Atrius Health