{"id":59,"date":"2026-01-12T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/degiorgiogroup\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2026-11-10T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:38:48","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.fau.edu\/degiorgiogroup\/people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michael DeGiorgio<\/a><\/strong>, Principal Investigator. A brief bio can be found here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zach Cohen<\/a><\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Cole<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. student in Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tanvir Anjum Joarder<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. student in Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Manisha Karim<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. student in Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mohammad Khan<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. student in Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roberth Anthony Rojas Chavez<\/a><\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cindy Santander<\/a><\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rawson Tabassum<\/a><\/strong>, Ph.D. student in Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wen Zhang<\/a><\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past postdoctoral reseachers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andre Luiz Campelo Dos Santos<\/a><\/strong>, Florida Atlantic University, October 2021-July 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ria Kanjilal<\/a><\/strong>, Florida Atlantic University, July 2022-August 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Adams<\/a><\/strong>, Florida Atlantic University, August 2019-August 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Prada<\/a><\/strong>, Pennsylvania State University, October 2014-April 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Ph.D. students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruhul Amin<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, January 2021-December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: MOVE AI Fellow at Handshake AI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandipan Arnab<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, January 2021-December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahmudul Hasan<\/strong>, Electrical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, May 2021-August 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: M.S. student at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nafis Erfan<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, September 2022-May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: Ph.D. student at Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudhanshu Sharma<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, January 2021-August 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kamal Choudhary<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, October 2020-August 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Data Science Manager at Meta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuumba Adesunloye<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, September 2020-February 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Computer Engineer at Black Bit Technologies, Inc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehreen Mughal<\/a><\/strong>, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Pennsylvania State University, April 2017-September 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Population Genomics Scientist at Variant Bio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaoheng Cheng<\/a><\/strong>, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences, Pennsylvania State University, January 2016-August 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Bioinformatics Scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Associate Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences, Pennsylvania State University, January 2016-August 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jinguo Huang<\/a><\/strong>, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Pennsylvania State University, May 2019-December 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Computational Biologist at Calico Life Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillary Koch<\/a><\/strong>, Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, June 2016-May 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Senior Statistician at Moderna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past M.S. students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrett Reardon<\/a><\/strong>, Artificial Intelligence, Florida Atlantic University, August 2023-March 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Data Scientist at ModMed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ernest Guagliata<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, December 2020-May 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: Ph.D. student at Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priya Sigler<\/a><\/strong>, Artificial Intelligence, Florida Atlantic University, August 2020-August 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Ignite Data Scientist at NextEra Energy, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past undergraduate reseachers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudrajit Sengupta<\/a><\/strong>, Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, August 2025-December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: B.S. student at Florida Atlantic University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Gardner<\/strong>, Physics, Pennsylvania State University, June 2014-April 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next position: Junior Associate at Mu Sigma<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashley Hall<\/a><\/strong>, Mathematics and Statistics, Pennsylvania State Univrsity, June 2014-April 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Manager at Deloitte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divya Jagadeesh<\/a><\/strong>, Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, October 2014-January 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Database Manager at the University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Kim<\/a><\/strong>, Biology, Pennsylvania State University, June 2014-April 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesse Schneider<\/a><\/strong>, Biology and Classics, Pennsylvania State University, September 2014-December 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past rotation students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jinguo Huang<\/a><\/strong>, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Pennsylvania State Univeristy, August 2018-November 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehreen Mughal<\/a><\/strong>, Bioinformatics and Genomics, Pennsylvania State University, April 2017-May 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences, Pennsylvania State University, January 2016-February 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaoheng Cheng<\/a><\/strong>, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences, Pennsylvania State University, January 2016-February 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheng Xu<\/a><\/strong>, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences, Pennsylvania State University, November 2015-December 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past research staff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikita Ostro<\/a><\/strong>, Data Analyst, Florida Atlantic University, March 2026-May 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Postbaccaleurate Program Fellow at the National Institutes of Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andre Luiz Campelo Dos Santos<\/a><\/strong>, Research Scientist, Florida Atlantic University, October 2021-July 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priya Sigler<\/a><\/strong>, Data Analyst, Florida Atlantic University, August 2020-August 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current position: Ignite Data Scientist at NextEra Energy, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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