Team – Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Lead Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Enrico Capobianco holds a Doctorate in Statistical Sciences from the University of Padua. After conducting graduate studies at LSE (London, UK), Northwestern University, and UC Berkeley, he pursued research in computational fields at Stanford University (US) (1994-1998). He received a NATO-CNR grant in Denmark (Niels Bohr Institute and Danish Technical University) and later (2001-2002) became an ERCIM fellow at CWI (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science) in Amsterdam (NL).He returned to US in 2003 working for as More...

Professor, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

Dr. Clarke joined the University of Miami in September 2009. He holds appointments with the Department of Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and with the Center for Computational Science. His main area of interest is model uncertainty and prediction. His earlier work included prior selection and asymptotics, as well as some aspects of network modeling in biological systems. His book on the Theory of Data Mining and Machine Learning was published in July 2009 and he looks forward to writing another book on model reselection in predictive systems. More...

Associate Scientist, Bioinformatics Core

Dr. Issac earned his Masters and Bachelors of Science degree from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He later received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 2005. Since then, he has gained extensive experience in bioinformatics analysis of Microarrays and Next-Generation sequencing analysis. Dr. Issac wrote his first web server in 2002 on identifying protein coding genes in microbial and mammalian genomes using a combinatorial approach. Later, he joined a structural bioinformatics lab More...

Bioinformatics Associate Scientist

Dr. Jiang received his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Louisiana State University in 2006, and then spent one year working on genome annotation projects at Scripps Florida. His main projects at CCS can be divided into two categories. The first is genome assembling using next generation sequencing (NGS) data and genome annotation, his expertise includes both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, run on two different NGS platforms. His second focus is gene expression analysis, working with microarray data as well as NGS data. This latter allows him to maintain an More...

Graduate Fellowship Student

Hemalatha Raju is a PhD student in Human Genetics and Genomics at the University of Miami. She received her BS in Physics and a master in Biophysics from the University of Chennai, India. Her research interests include analyzing next-generations sequencing data using different NGS tools (Bowtie, BWA, TopHat, and Cufflinks), designing pipeline to identify and analyze non-coding RNA in the transcriptome, classify the functional non-coding RNAs. More...

Bioinformatics Assistant Scientist

Daria Salyakina, PhD is an Assistant Scientist at Center for Computational Science. She obtained her Master’s degree in Genetics from Tomsk State University in Russia and gained her PhD in Statistical Genetics from the Technical University Munich in Germany. Dr. Salyakina’s areas of expertise include Genetic Epidemiology, Human Genetics, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. She earned her most experience in identification of genomic and environmental risk factors attributing to various complex disorders. Her present research is focused on the More...