Our Team

Michael Zody

Scientific Director, Computational Biology

Dr. Michael Zody is a computational biologist with over 15 years of experience writing bioinformatic software, analyzing genomic and transcriptomic sequence data, and managing engineers and researchers. He serves as the Scientific Director of Computational Biology at the New York...

Nicolas Robine

Director, Computational Biology

Nicolas Robine joined the New York Genome Center in April 2012. He graduated from an Engineering school in Paris (ESIEE-Paris), with an Msc in Bioinformatics from Goteborg (Sweden) and obtained his PhD at the Institut Curie in Paris for his...

Giuseppe Narzisi

Associate Director, Computational Biology

Giuseppe Narzisi is Associate Director, Computational Biology at the New York Genome Center. His research interest is in developing novel algorithms and computational systems to analyze DNA sequences, concentrating on the assembly and alignment of next generation sequencing reads. Applications include...

Will Liao

Lead Bioinformatics Scientist

Will Liao earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics with a concentration in Computational Biology from Stony Brook University where he was co-advised by Haipeng Xing. His research was conducted at The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory under the co-advisement...

Anna Basile

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Anna Basile joined the New York Genome Center in May 2019 as a Bioinformatics Scientist in Statistical Genetics/Genetic Epidemiology. She earned a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from The Pennsylvania State University. Anna’s role at the NYGC focuses on...

Marta Byrska-Bishop

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Marta Byrska-Bishop joined the New York Genome Center in November 2017 as a Bioinformatics Scientist and was promoted to Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in 2020. Her role at the NYGC focuses primarily on the maintenance, improvement, and operation of the germline...

Andre Corvelo

Lead Bioinformatics Scientist

André Corvelo joined the New York Genome Center in January 2014 as a Bioinformatics Scientist. Originally trained as a field biologist, André started his scientific career at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) in Porto, Portugal where he...

Rui Fu

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Rui Fu completed his PhD at University of California San Diego with mentorship from Dr Jens Lykke-Andersen, and received postdoctoral training at Boston Children’s Hospital and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. His contributions to RNA biology include describing a...

Uday Evani

Senior Data Scientist

Uday Evani obtained his MS in Bioinformatics from Indiana University, Indianapolis in 2010. While working on his masters, he was a research assistant in Dr. Sean Mooney’s lab and worked on building a high-throughput processing pipeline to annotate non-synonymous mutations...

Wayne Clarke

Bioinformatics Scientist

Wayne Clarke joined the New York Genome Center in August 2015. He earned a PhD in Computer Science with a concentration in Bioinformatics from the University of Saskatchewan. His research centered on development of methods for high-throughput discovery of single...

Will Hooper

Bioinformatics Scientist

Will Hooper joined the New York Genome Center in September 2019. Previously, he supported transcriptomics and cancer genomics efforts on clinical trials at Emmes in Washington D.C. He earned an M.S. in Biology, and a dual B.S. in Bioinformatics and...

Tim Chu

Senior Bioinformatics Programmer

Tim Chu joined NYGC as a Bioinformatics Programmer in March 2019. He came to New York to study at NYU, where he received his B.A. in Biology at NYU in 2012 and his Masters' in Computer Science at NYU in...

Rajeeva Musunuri

Bioinformatics Data Scientist

Rajeeva Musunuri joined New York Genome Center in February 2016. Shortly before, he obtained a masters in bioinformatics from New York University in January 2016. He previously worked with Dr. Mande Holford on transcriptome assembly of marine snails to annotate...

Zalman Vaksman

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

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Heather Geiger

Bioinformatics Scientist

Heather Geiger joined the New York Genome Center in September 2013. Her focus is RNA-Seq. She previously worked with Chris Mason at Weill Cornell, researching gene expression in axons of developing neurons. At the New York Genome Center, she has...

Jennifer Shelton

Senior Bioinformatics Programmer

Jennifer Shelton is a Senior Bioinformatics Programmer who joined the NYGC September 2015. Jennifer studied genomics applications, chromosome and genome analysis, and bioinformatics as a Master's student at Kansas State University. After earning her degree she became the K-INBRE Bioinformatics...

Brian Zhu

Bioinformatics Programmer

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Kshithija Nagulapalli

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst

Kshithija joined the New York Genome Center as a Sequencing Bioinformatics Analyst in 2015. Her role included interpreting QC data and collaboratively working with Computational Biology on data analysis, benchmarking new tools as and when they are available, supporting laboratory...

Zoe Goldstein

Bioinformatics Analyst

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Anand Kumaraguru

Senior Associate Scientist, Analytics

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Jim Roche

Bioinformatics Programmer

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Ali Oku

Bioinformatics analyst

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