{"id":24,"date":"2019-10-13T23:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:19:09","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"tmm tmm_lab_members\"><div class=\"tmm_3_columns tmm_wrap tmm_theme_f\"><span class=\"tmm_two_containers_tablet\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_container\"><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/~wzhang\/\" title=\"Dr. Wei Zhang\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_0\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/wei.png); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><\/a><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Dr. Wei<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Zhang<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">Lab Director<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><p>Associate Professor of Computer Science and Core Member for the Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster<\/p><ul><li><strong>Research Interest<\/strong>: Analysis of Cancer Transcript Variants; Network-based Learning in Bioinformatics; Drug Sensitivity Prediction<\/li><li><strong>Education<\/strong>: PhD &amp; MS, Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2015 &amp; 2011)<\/li><li><strong>Contact<\/strong>: wzhang.cs(at)ucf(dot)edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/~wzhang\/\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/website.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Wei_Zhang118\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/researchgate.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wei-zhang-46205543\/\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/linkedin.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_1\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sudipto-Baul.jpg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Sudipto<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Baul<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> Application of Graph Deep Learning and Attention mechanism in Biological Data Analysis<\/li><li><strong>Education:<\/strong> MS in Computer Science, University of Central Florida (2023)<\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> sudipto.baul@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><span class=\"tmm_two_containers_tablet\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_2\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/436347995_7025314774241154_5360078066174881675_n.jpg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Istiaq Ansari<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Rakib<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> Application and Development of Deep Learning Algorithms on Bioinformatics<\/li><li><strong>Education:<\/strong> MS in Computer Science, University of Central Florida (2025)<\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> istiaq@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><span class=\"tmm_columns_containers_desktop\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_container\"><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_3\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2024-09-28-12.47.23-scaled.jpeg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Ehtesamul<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Azim<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Geometric Deep Learning<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Education:<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2021)<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> ehtesamul.azim@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><span class=\"tmm_two_containers_tablet\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_4\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Muhtasim-Noor-Alif-scaled.jpg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Muhtasim Noor<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Alif<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div><ul><li><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> Devising Machine\/Deep Learning Algorithms for Biological Data Analysis<\/li><li><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2023)<\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> mu031692@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"mailto:&#109;u&#048;&#051;1&#054;&#057;&#050;&#064;ucf.ed&#117;\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/email.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/muhtasim-alif\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/linkedin.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_5\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Picture_Sourav_Saha.jpg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Sourav<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Saha<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><strong>Research Interest:<\/strong> Application of Pretrained Deep Learning Models and Attention Mechanism in Posttranscriptional regulatory mechanisms<\/li><li><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (2023)<\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> sourav.saha@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"mailto:&#115;o&#117;r&#097;v.saha&#064;uc&#102;&#046;edu\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/email.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sourav-saha0152\/\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/linkedin.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><span class=\"tmm_two_containers_tablet\"><\/span><\/div><span class=\"tmm_columns_containers_desktop\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_container\"><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_6\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Portrait-Tien-Thanh-Bui-scaled.jpeg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Thanh<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Bui<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Research interest:<\/strong> Multiomics Data Integration<\/div><\/li><li><div><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.S. in Mathematics and Informatics (Honors), Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam<\/div><\/li><li><strong>Contact:<\/strong> tienthanh.bui@ucf.edu<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/bu1th4nh.github.io\/\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/website.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bu1th4nh\/\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/linkedin.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_7\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_2237.jpeg); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Jeovani<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Overstreet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">Student<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Research interest:<\/strong>\u00a0Single Cell RNA-seq data Analysis<\/div><\/li><li><div><strong>Education:<\/strong> B.S. in Biochemistry, Florida State University<\/div><\/li><li><strong>Contact: <\/strong>je435858@ucf.edu\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"mailto:j&#101;&#052;35&#056;&#053;8&#064;&#117;&#099;f&#046;&#101;&#100;&#117;&#194;?\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/email.png\"\/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeovani-overstreet-063964278\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/linkedin.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><span class=\"tmm_two_containers_tablet\"><\/span><div class=\"tmm_member\" style=\"border-top:#333333 solid 5px;\"><div class=\"tmm_photo tmm_pic_lab_members_8\" style=\"background: url(https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lab-profile.png); margin-left: auto; margin-right:auto; background-size:cover !important;\"><\/div><div class=\"tmm_textblock\"><div class=\"tmm_names\"><span class=\"tmm_fname\">Tejas Sandip<\/span> <span class=\"tmm_lname\">Mahajan<\/span><\/div><div class=\"tmm_job\">PhD Student, Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"tmm_desc\" style=\"text-align:left\"><ul><li><div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Research interest:<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Single Cell Multi-Omics Data Generation and Integration<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><div><strong>Education:<\/strong> <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">B.E. in Computer Science &amp; Communications Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan<\/span><\/div><\/li><li><strong>Contact: <\/strong>te252970@ucf.edu\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"tmm_scblock\"><a class=\"tmm_sociallink\" href=\"mailto:&#116;e2&#053;&#050;&#057;&#055;0&#064;u&#099;&#102;.ed&#117;\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-content\/plugins\/team-members\/inc\/img\/links\/email.png\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Naima Ahmed Fahmi: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2018 &#8211; Fall 2024). Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher &#8211; University of Central Florida.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Qibing Jiang: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 &#8211; Summer 2024). Current Position: Robotics Development Engineer &#8211; Tompkins Robotics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Khandakar Tanvir Ahmed: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Fall 2019 &#8211; Spring 2024). Current Position: Machine Learning Engineer &#8211; Meta.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jiao Sun: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Spring 2018 &#8211; Spring 2023). Current Position: Bioinformatics Research Scientist &#8211; St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joseph\u00a0Filipek: M.S. in Computer Science (Spring 2022 &#8211; Spring 2023). Current Position: Programmer\/Analyst &#8211; Southwest Power Pool.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ity Bahadur: M.S. in Computer Science (Spring 2019 &#8211; Fall 2019). Current Position: Senior Software Quality Engineer &#8211; Fifth Third Bank.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rajat Bhattacharjee:  M.S. in Computer Science (Fall 2018 &#8211; Spring 2019). Current Position: Software Engineer &#8211; Cognizant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surya Gaur: M.S. in Data Analytics (Fall 2017 &#8211; Spring 2018). Current Position: Data Analyst &#8211; Cloud Mentor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ayla Bratton: NSF REU Student (Spring 2024 &#8211; Summer 2025). Current Position: Client-Side Field IT Technician &#8211; University of Central Florida.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dylan Vidal: NSF REU Student (Summer 2024). Current Position: Dev Lead &#8211; Knight Hacks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jose Hoyos Sanchez: NSF REU Student (Summer 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thalia La Pommeray: NSF REU Student (Spring 2022). Current Position: IOS Engineer &#8211; Procore Technologies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Chen: NSF REU Student (Summer 2020 &#8211; Spring 2021). Current Position: Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heba Nassereddeen: NSF REU Student (Summer 2019 &#8211; Fall 2020). Current Position: Software Engineer &#8211; Engineerica Systems. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Milan Shah:  NSF REU Student (Summer 2019). Current Position: Ph.D. Student at North Carolina State University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tara Rutkowski: NSF REU Student (Summer 2019 &#8211; Spring 2020). Current Position: Data Scientist &#8211; Google.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhibo Wang: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Spring 2018 &#8211; Spring 2019). Current Position: Research Scientist &#8211; Meta.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ucf.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}