Current Fellows in the Trans-Divisional Research Program

Dr. Balasubramanian, research fellow in the Data Science and Engineering Research Group of TDRP, is working with Jonas S. Almeida, Ph.D., and several other collaborators on various projects, including developing: absolute risk models for breast cancer and its subtypes from studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC); polygenic risk models for prostate cancer from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer (PLCO) study; machine learning methods for the representation and modeling of somatic mutational signatures; and developing and deploying portable and privacy-preserving web applications for public health e.g., absolute risk calculators.

Mr. Bhawsar, predoctoral fellow in the Data Science and Engineering Research Group of TDRP, is conducting research on setting up reusable artificial intelligence (AI) pipelines for digital pathology, under the mentorship of Jonas S. Almeida, Ph.D.

Mr. Mason, predoctoral fellow in the Data Science & Engineering Research Group of TDRP, is conducting research focused on interactive visual analysis of time-series data, under the mentorship of Jonas S. Almeida, Ph.D., Director of Data Science, DCEG, and Dr. Blánaid Hicks at Queen's University Belfast, Ireland.

Ms. Orszag, postbaccalaureate fellow in TDRP, supports the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study team, where she contributes to data cleaning, metrics, and electronic health record analysis. Her mentors are Mia Gaudet, Ph.D. and Nicole Gerlanc, Ph.D.

Ms. Sandoval, predoctoral fellow in TDRP, is studying health disparities in cancer with a focus on policy interventions, using serverless architecture and data visualization. Her mentor is Jonas S. Almeida, Ph.D.

Ms. Wu, predoctoral fellow in the Trans-Divisional Research Program, is investigating the contributions of genetic and nongenetic factors to breast cancer risk, under the mentorship of Peter Kraft, Ph.D.