Current Members

Dr. Wei Zhang
Lab Director

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Core Member for the Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster

  • Research Interest: Analysis of Cancer Transcript Variants; Network-based Learning in Bioinformatics; Drug Sensitivity Prediction
  • Education: PhD & MS, Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2015 & 2011)
  • Contact: wzhang.cs(at)ucf(dot)edu
Sudipto Baul
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application of Graph Deep Learning and Attention mechanism in Biological Data Analysis
  • Education: MS in Computer Science, University of Central Florida (2023)
  • Contact: sudipto.baul@ucf.edu
Istiaq Ansari Rakib
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application and Development of Deep Learning Algorithms on Bioinformatics
  • Education: MS in Computer Science, University of Central Florida (2025)
  • Contact: istiaq@ucf.edu
Ehtesamul Azim
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Geometric Deep Learning
  • Education: B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2021)
  • Contact: ehtesamul.azim@ucf.edu
Muhtasim Noor Alif
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Devising Machine/Deep Learning Algorithms for Biological Data Analysis
  • Education: B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2023)
  • Contact: mu031692@ucf.edu
Sourav Saha
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research Interest: Application of Pretrained Deep Learning Models and Attention Mechanism in Posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms
  • Education: B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (2023)
  • Contact: sourav.saha@ucf.edu
Thanh Bui
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research interest: Multiomics Data Integration
  • Education: B.S. in Mathematics and Informatics (Honors), Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
  • Contact: tienthanh.bui@ucf.edu
Jeovani Overstreet
Student
  • Research interest: Single Cell RNA-seq data Analysis
  • Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, Florida State University
  • Contact: je435858@ucf.edu 
Tejas Sandip Mahajan
PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Research interest: Single Cell Multi-Omics Data Generation and Integration
  • Education: B.E. in Computer Science & Communications Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Contact: te252970@ucf.edu 

Alumni

  • Naima Ahmed Fahmi: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2018 – Fall 2024). Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Central Florida.
  • Qibing Jiang: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 – Summer 2024). Current Position: Robotics Development Engineer – Tompkins Robotics.
  • Khandakar Tanvir Ahmed: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 – Spring 2024). Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer – Meta.
  • Jiao Sun: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Spring 2018 – Spring 2023). Current Position: Bioinformatics Research Scientist – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
  • Joseph Filipek: M.S. in Computer Science (Spring 2022 – Spring 2023). Current Position: Programmer/Analyst – Southwest Power Pool.
  • Ity Bahadur: M.S. in Computer Science (Spring 2019 – Fall 2019). Current Position: Senior Software Quality Engineer – Fifth Third Bank.
  • Rajat Bhattacharjee: M.S. in Computer Science (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019). Current Position: Software Engineer – Cognizant.
  • Surya Gaur: M.S. in Data Analytics (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018). Current Position: Data Analyst – Cloud Mentor.
  • Ayla Bratton: NSF REU Student (Spring 2024 – Summer 2025). Current Position: Client-Side Field IT Technician – University of Central Florida.
  • Dylan Vidal: NSF REU Student (Summer 2024). Current Position: Dev Lead – Knight Hacks.
  • Jose Hoyos Sanchez: NSF REU Student (Summer 2022).
  • Thalia La Pommeray: NSF REU Student (Spring 2022). Current Position: IOS Engineer – Procore Technologies.
  • William Chen: NSF REU Student (Summer 2020 – Spring 2021). Current Position: Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Heba Nassereddeen: NSF REU Student (Summer 2019 – Fall 2020). Current Position: Software Engineer – Engineerica Systems.
  • Milan Shah: NSF REU Student (Summer 2019). Current Position: Ph.D. Student at North Carolina State University.
  • Tara Rutkowski: NSF REU Student (Summer 2019 – Spring 2020). Current Position: Data Scientist – Google.
  • Zhibo Wang: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Spring 2018 – Spring 2019). Current Position: Research Scientist – Meta.