Program Alumni

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.

2024

Rosa Guerra Resendez, Ph.D. | Advisor: Hilton
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hilton Lab, Rice University

2023

Shyam Bhakta, Ph.D. | Advisor: G. Bennett
Postdoctoral Fellow, G. Bennett Lab, Rice University

Yujie Chen, Ph.D. | Advisor: Kimmel
Research Associate at RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School

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

Baiyang Liu, Ph.D. | Advisors: Chappell/G. Bennett
Postdoctoral Fellow, J. Chappell 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