People

We’re a collaborative team at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and biology.

Principal Investigator

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Claire Donnat

Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago

Interests: GNN theory, structured estimation, spatial transcriptomics, multimodal integration.

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Maria Hernandez Limon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Geophysicist turned biologist. Microbial communities, RNA analysis.

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Coralie Rousseau

Postdoctoral Fellow

Microbiologist. CCA. Microbial communities.

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Jeffrey Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Causal Inference. Microbial GWAS.

Graduate Students

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Yeo Jin Jung

PhD Student

Spatial PCA · topic models with spatial/covariate structure.

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Yating Liu

PhD Student

Topic Modeling with sparsity.

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Zixuan Wu

PhD Student

Efficient sparse CCA · link prediction theory in GNNs.

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Sowon Jeong

PhD Student

GNN Methodology. Unsupervised GNN embeddings for spatial transcriptomics.

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Tannistha Mondal

PhD Student

Sparse GCA. high-dimensional inference.

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Chenjia Lin

PhD Student (Rotation)

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Soutim Das

PhD Student (Rotation)

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Tommaso Castellani

MS Researcher

GNNs · Neuroscience

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Rosie Tao

MS Researcher

Structured estimation.

Research Assistants

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Ruisi Liu

Research Assistant

Topic Models. Multiple Testing with Empirical Bayes. Plant microbiology.