Bioinformatics Graduate Degree Alumni Information

Jingnan Zhao
Graduation Date: Fall 2012
Thesis Title: Comparison and optimization of assembly methods for de novo sequencing of Group A Streptococcal genomes
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Ramin Homayouni
Current Position: UM Business Administration PhD Student

Tina Chou
Graduation Date: Fall 2012
Thesis Title: Genome-Wide Mapping of Polymorphism Pattern in Tomato Genome
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Takuya Nakazato
Current Position: Auto Zone ECommerce Programmer

Supriyapriadar Pati
Graduation Date: Summer 2012
Thesis Title: ANNOTATION OF CYP FAMILY GENES IN Harmonia axyridis AND A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CYTOCHROME P450 GENES IN Harmonia axyridis AND Tribolium castaneum
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Duane McKenna

Behrouz Madahian
Graduation Date: Fall 2011
Thesis Title: System Dynamics Modeling for Childhood Obesity
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, U of M Department of Mathematical Sciences

Banoo Madhanagopal
Graduation Date: Fall 2011
Thesis Title: Prioritization of genes in transfermed cell lines of human breast epithelial cells by Latent Semantic Indexing
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position:

Fazle Faisal
Graduation Date: Fall 2011
Thesis Title: Computer Network of Diseases and Pharmacological Entities Through the Integration of Distributed Literature Mining and Ontology Mapping
Thesis Mentor: Dr. M. Yeasin
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, The University of Notre Dame

Nam Vo
Graduation Date: Summer 2011
Thesis Title: Analysis of Microarray Data with Directed Graphs
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Vinthuy Phan
Current Position: Ph.D. Student U of M Department of Computer Sciences

Vida Abedi
Graduation Date: Spring 2011
Thesis Title: Knowledge Discovery Through Large-Scale Literature-Mining of Biological Text-Data
Thesis Mentor: Dr. M. Yeasin
Current Position: Ph.D. Student, U of M Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Vijay Pidikiti
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Project Title: Analyzing the Affymetrix Tiling array data by using Starr Package
Thesis Mentor: Dr. E. O. George
Current Position:

Somanath Pilla
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Thesis Title: Codon Bias Can Only Partially Explain Stop Signal Profile in Bacteria
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Tit-Ye Wong
Current Position: Software Developer III at Raymond James Financial Inc.

Laasya Priya Vadlamudi
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Project Title: ColonyTrak: A web tool and database system for managing experimental animal models
Project Mentor: Dr.  Homayouni
Current Position: Employed at FedEx

Akhilesh Kaushal
Graduation Date: Summer 2010
Thesis Title:
Thesis Mentor: Dr. E. O. George
Current Position:

Ashutosh K Pandey
Graduation Date: Fall 2009
Project Title: Gene queries with disambiguation to retrieve relevant abstracts     through PubMed
Project Mentor: Dr. Homayouni and Dr. R Williams
Current Position: Ph.D Student, Integrated Program Biomedical Science, UT Health Science Center, Memphis TN.

Naga Satya V Rao Nagisettyi
Graduation Date: Fall 2009
Project Title: Biomedical image based knowledge management system
Project Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: Outreach Specialist, Michigan State University

Haritha Malempati
Graduation Date: Summer 2009
Project Title: Effect of latent semantic indexing rank-k on gene synonym retrieva
Project Mentor: Dr. M. Yeasin and Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: NA

Preethi Katragadda
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Project Title: Effect of Gene Aliases in Abstract Retrieval Using PubMed
Project Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: .Net developer in Viraj LLC

Sujoy Roy
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Thesis Title: A Text Mining Framework for Predicting Gene Regulatory Information from Biomedical Literature
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: UM Computer Science PhD Program

Ebony Smith
Graduation Date: Fall 2008
Project Title: Development of a Method for Detecting the Early Warning Signs of Pediatric Sepsis
Project Mentor: Dr. Homayouni and Dr. J. Ketcheside
Current Position: Accepted by UT HSC

Marrein Agwaro
Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Project Title: Developing a Mammalian gene Database and web-tool
Project Mentor: Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: Professional Work Fellow at Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Kranthi K Koganti
Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Project Title: On Nonparametric Meta-Analysis of Microarray data
Project Mentor: Dr. O. George
Current Position: N/A

Sreedhar Sontineni
Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Project Title: A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Microarray Cancer Data Analysis
Thesis Mentor: Dr. J . Krushkal and Dr. Homayouni
Current Position:

Nick Furlotte
Graduation Date: Summer 2008
Thesis Title: Literature-based evaluation of microarray normalization procedures
Thesis Mentor: Dr. R Williams and Dr. Homayouni
Current Position: UCLA PhD Program

Allen Thomas
Graduation Date: Spring 2008
Thesis Title: Stability of RNA structural motifs and its influence on editing efficiency by adar
Thesis Mentor: Dr. Sutter
Current Position: FedEx Programmer

Quynh T. Tran
Graduation Date:  Fall 2007
Thesis Title: Clustering Genes Based on Profiles of RNA Response: Analysis of a Multiple Treatments Microarray Experiment, with Application to Cancer Chemoprevention
Thesis Mentor:  Dr. E. O. George
Current Position: FedEx Programmer

Jahangheer Shaik
Graduation Date:  Fall 2007
Thesis Title: Visualization techniques for microarray data
Thesis Mentor:  Dr. M. Yeasin
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Haibao Wan
Graduation Date:  Fall 2007
Thesis Title: Analysis of gene expression data using hierarchical Bayesian and gene set enrichment procedures
Thesis Mentor:  Dr. E. O. George
Current Position: Staff Scientist, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN