Current Members

	Yun William Yu - Associate Professor - Computational Biology William is a computational biologist and applied mathematician interested in compression, genomics, privacy, and sketching. Prior to moving to CMU, he was an assistant professor in the math department at the University of Toronto. He was a graduate student with Bonnie Berger in Mathematics at MIT, and a postdoctoral fellow with Griffin Weber in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. William is originally from Huntingburg, Indiana, USA. Website - Google Scholar - Pubmed - ORCID - Github - Twitter
	Mahmudur Rahman Hera - Lane Postdoctoral Fellow Mahmudur is a Lane Postdoctoral Fellow at CMU, working under the supervision of Yun William Yu. Mahmudur completed his PhD from Penn State. Prior to starting in the Yu Lab, Mahmudur worked as a postdoc at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Mahmudur is a computational biologist with a core background in computer science. His research interests are mainly in (a) developing sketching methods for bioinformatics analyses, and (b) solving challenges in analyzing large-scale metagenomics data. Website - Google Scholar
	Molly Borowiak - PhD Student - Computational Biology Molly works on applying string sketching techniques to improve RNA-seq data analysis.
	Aidan Zhang - PhD Student - Computational Biology Aidan has two major research directions. On the theory side, he is interested in the theory of k-mer subsampling. On the applied side, he has worked on building simulators for metagenomic sequencing. LinkedIn
	Navid Bin Hasan - PhD Student - Computational Biology Navid is interested in secure and efficient read mapping. Google Scholar