Since beginning in 2013, the SSPB Program is proud of its growing alumni base, with former students pursuing careers in academia, industry, government, and beyond.

2023

Prashant Kalvapalle, Ph.D. | Advisors: Stadler, Silberg
Postdoctoral Fellow, L. Stadler and J. Silberg Lab, Rice University

Xiaoyu (Helen) Lu, Ph.D. | Advisor: St-Pierre
Postdoctoral Fellow, F. St-Pierre Lab, Baylor College of Medicine

Alanna Stull, M.A. | Advisor: Ajo-Franklin
Research Associate, Bloom Science, Inc.

Wangfei Yang, Ph.D. | Advisor: Clementi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University

2022

Carlos Bueno, Ph.D. | Advisor: Wolynes
Postdoctoral Fellow, P. Wolynes Lab, Rice University

Emily (Emm) Fulk, Ph.D. | Advisors: Masiello, Silberg
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Lauren Gambill, Ph.D. | Advisor: Chappell
Scientist, Strand Therapeutics

Jihwan (James) Lee, Ph.D. | Advisor: St-Pierre
Co-Founder, Imagen Bioworks

Kareem M. Mehrabiani, Ph.D. | Advisor: Onuchic
Postdoctoral Researcher, Rice University

Shubham Tripathi, Ph.D. | Advisor: Levine
Postdoctoral Associate, Tsang Lab, Yale School of Medicine

2021

Kathryn Brink, Ph.D. | Advisor: Tabor
Postdoctoral Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University

Zhuo Chen, Ph.D. | Advisor: Igoshin

Ilenne D. Del Valle Kessra, Ph.D. | Advisors: Masiello, Silberg
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jiaming (Gavin) Li, Ph.D. | Advisor: Zhang

Qi (Maria) Wang, Ph.D. | Advisor: Treangen
Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina

2020

Dreycey Albin, M.S. | Advisor: Treangen
Ph.D. Student, Alistar Lab, University of Colorado Boulder

George L. Britton, Ph.D. | Advisors: Qutub/Warmflash
Medical Science Associate, Fresenius Medical Care North America

Sapna Chhabra, Ph.D. | Advisor: Warmflash
Postdoctoral Fellow, Aulehla Lab, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Sungmin Lee, Ph.D. | Advisor: Ma
Scientist III - Bioinformatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Qian (Irene) Mei, Ph.D. | Advisor: Rosenberg
Data Scientist, Amazon

Yidan Pan, Ph.D. | Advisor: Bao
Postdoctoral Fellow, Merck

Xuemeng (Jinny) Zhang, Ph.D. | Advisor: Zhang
Research Scientist II, NuProbe, Inc.

David Zong, Ph.D. | Advisor: M. Bennett
Scientist, Novome Biotechnologies

2019

Joshua T. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Advisor: Silberg
Postdoctoral Fellow, El-Nagger Lab, University of Southern California

Felix Ekness, Ph.D. | Advisor: Tabor
Senior Scientist, Kingdom Supercultures

Brianna E. Jayanthi, Ph.D. | Advisor: Segatori
Mammalian Synthetic Biologist, Asimov

Sara Molinari, Ph.D. | Advisor: M. Bennett
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland

Yan Yan, Ph.D. | Advisor: Zhang
Senior Scientist, NuProbe, Inc.

2018

Dongya Jia, Ph.D. | Advisor: Levine
Research Fellow, NIH/NCI

R. Tyler McLaughlin, Ph.D. | Advisor: Diehl
Senior Scientist, AbbVie Biopharmaceutical

Juexiao (Sherry) Wang, Ph.D. | Advisor: Zhang
Scientist II - Computational Biology, Myriad Genetics