
February 6, 2026

September 20, 2024

December 6th, 2019

February 6, 2026
Aya Brown Kav, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
ab4966 at cumc columbia edu

George Austin
Ph.D. Student (DSB)
gia2105 at cumc columbia edu

Julia Urban
Ph.D. student (DSB)
jau2112 at cumc columbia edu

Peiwen Cai
Ph.D. student (DSB w/ Mohammed AlQuraishi)
pc2976 at cumc columbia edu

Alara Sutcu
Ph.D. student (NMB)
as6694 at cumc columbia edu

Andrey Zaznaev
Ph.D. student (DBMI)
az2732 at cumc columbia edu

Jinhui Liu
M.Sc student (DBMI)
jl6788 at cumc columbia edu

Shahd ElNaggar
Researcher (w/ Julian Abrams)
se2481 at cumc columbia edu

Reut Shabtai
Visiting PhD student
reut dot shabtai at weizmann ac il

Guanlin Chen
Software developer
gc3257 at cumc columbia edu

Alua Zhanuzakova
Undergraduate researcher (CS & Applied Math)
az2879 at columbia edu

Curt Johnson
Undergraduate researcher (BME, Tufts)
curt dot johnson at tufts edu

Rebecca (RC) Christensen
Ph.D student (M&I)
rc3710 at cumc columbia edu

Mick Aitken, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scientist
mpa2143 at columbia edu
Alumni
Xiaote Liu |
Alexander Nguyen |
Natalya Mametyarova |
Danielle Soltz |
Yuval Antman |
Inneloy Polanco |
William F. Kindschuh |
Qinyi Fang |
Ann Thanh Phan |
Michael Carrion |
Justin T. Mathew |
Andrew Batuure |
Next Position | ||
|---|---|---|
M.A. student (Statistics); Researcher | 2025-2026 | PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz |
Undergraduate researcher (CS & Biology) | 2025-2026 | |
Software developer | 2023-2026 | |
Undergraduate researcher (Comp Bio) | 2025 | |
Visiting undergraduate student (BGU) | 2025 | |
Undergraduate researcher (Comp Bio) | 2025 | |
MD/PhD student | 2019-2025 | Residency, Columbia |
M.Sc. Student (DBMI) | 2024-2025 | |
Undergraduate researcher (biology) | 2022-2025 | |
M.Sc. student (CS) | 2025 | |
M.Sc. student (Data Science) | 2025 | |
M.Sc student, researcher | 2022-2024 |



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