Jonathan Amsalem, MS
Jonathan earned his MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2025 and is currently a Bioinformatics Specialist in the Offit lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Kendall Anderson, MS
Kendall earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2019 and is currently a Director at Envisagenics.
Dr. Lili Blumenberg, PhD
Lili earned her PhD in the Ruggles lab in 2020 and is now an a Sr. Scientist in Bioinformatics at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Romane Cathelin, MS
Romane is a bioinformatics programmer at ABL who worked with the Ruggles Lab 2023-2024.
Yiang Chen, MS
Yiang earned his MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2024 and now works as at the 80-20 Initiative.
Ze Chen, MS
Ze worked as a programmer in the Ruggles lab from 2019-2022 and is now a PhD Student at the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.
David Coit, MS
David earned his MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2020 and is now a Bioinformatician at IsoPlexis.
MacIntosh (Tosh) Cornwell, PhD
Tosh is a MD/PhD student who earned his PhD in Computational Biomedicine in the Ruggles lab in 2023 and is now a Radiology Resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Aria Dandawate, BS
Aria completed her honors undergraduate thesis in the Ruggles lab in 2020 and is now a Computational Biology PhD Student at Weill Cornell.
Dr. Joseph (Cooper) Devlin, PhD
Cooper completed his PhD thesis in the Ruggles and Loke labs in 2021 and is now an Associate Scientist / Computational Biologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Amanda Ernlund, PhD
Amanda earned her PhD in the Ruggles and Schneider labs in 2018 and is now a Senior Scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratories at Johns Hopkins University.
Sabrina George, MS
Sabrina earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2021 and worked as a programmer in the lab for the year following. She is now a medical student at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo.
Bartlomiej (Bart) Halibart
Bart worked in the Ruggles lab 2019-2021 and is currently in a Business Insights Leadership Fellow at McKinsey & Company.
Helena Jun, MS
Helena earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2023 and is now a Computational Biologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Lizabeth Katsnelson, PhD, MS
Lizabeth (Lisa) earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2019 and is now an AI data scientist with Imageomix.
Alcida (Allie) Karz, MD, PhD
Allie earned her PhD in Molecular and Tumor Immunology in the Hernando and Ruggles labs in 2023 and is now a Psychiatry Resident at Duke University.
Emily Kawaler, PhD
Emily earned her PhD in the Fenyo and Ruggles labs in 2021 and is now a Senior Bioinformatician at the Applied Bioinformatics Labs at NYU Langone Health.
Efiyenia (Fenia) Kaparos, PhD
Fenia completed her PhD in the Fenyo and Ruggles lab in 2025 and is now searching for her next adventure!
Rishi Kumar
Rishi worked with us as a high school researcher and is now applying for college.
Nithu Mathew, MS
Nithu earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2020 and is now a Senior Data Consultant at Altman Solon.
Ravindra (Ravi) Mangar
Ravi worked in the Ruggles lab during the summer of 2023 as a Clear Directions intern. He is now attending University of Chicago for undergrad.
Ryusei Miyanaga, MS
Ryusei earned his MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2023 and is now a Medical IT Specialist for Japanese Medical Care.
Tamara Mestvirishvili, MS
Tamara earned her MS in Bioinforamtics in the Ruggles lab in 2021 and is currently a Bioinformatician in the Rabbani lab at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Louis Oh-Aronson
Louis worked with us as a high school researcher and is now applying for college.
Andrea Ouyang, MS
Andrea earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2021 and is now an Osteopathic Medical student at William Carey University.
Brianna Roseberry, MS
Brianna (Bree) earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2020 and is now an Account Executive at Strive Pharmacy.
Tobias Schraink, PhD
Tobi earned his PhD in the Fenyo and Ruggles labs in 2022 and is now a Bioinformatics Software Engineer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Farheen Shaikh, MS
Farheen was a Research Volunteer with the Ruggles lab from 2022-2023 and is now employed at Memorial Sloan Kettering as a Data Analyst.
Jasmine Shwetar, PhD
Jasmine graduated from her PhD in the Ruggles lab in 2025 and is now finishing her MD at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Shaleigh (Smith) Stanton, MS
Shaleigh earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2019 and is now employed as a Bioinformatics Manager at Envisagenics.
Simoni Tiano, MS
Simoni earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2021 and now works as a Bioinformatics Analyst at Columbia University.
Marisa Triola
Marisa worked with the Ruggles lab as a high school student and is now a Computer Science major at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Adam Walker, MS
Adam worked as a research analyst from 2023-2024 and is now a PhD student at the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.
Yunjing Wan, MS
Yunjing earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2022 and worked as a research analyst on melanoma metastasis in collaboration with Eva Hernando’s lab from 2022-2023. She is now applying for PhD programs.
Yiqing (Mike) Wang, MS
Yiqing earned his MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2024 and now works as a Bioinformatician at Regeneron.
Huan Yang, MS
Huan earned her MS in Biomedical Informatics in the Ruggles lab in 2022 in cardio-omics and continued working with us until 2024.
Previous Rotation Students:
Jonathan Abebe, CBM PhD student
Page Murray, MSTP student
Sandhya Rajkumar, MSTP student
Jimin Tang, SCBM PhD student
Chenzhen (Lily) Zhang, CBM PhD student