Bioinformatics Graduate Degree Alumni Information

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
Thesis Title:
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:

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: NA

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