Current Fellows in the Trans-Divisional Research Program

Meet the fellows in the Trans-Divisional Research Program (TDRP) and learn about their work.

  • Jeya B. Balasubramanian, postdoctoral fellow in the Data Science Research Group

    Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian, Ph.D., M.S.

    Dr. Balasubramanian, research fellow in the Data Science and Engineering Research Group of TDRP, is working with Dr.Almeida and collaborators on various projects, including: absolute risk models for breast cancer and its subtypes, polygenic risk models for prostate cancer; 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.

  • Praphulla Bhawsar

    Praphulla Bhawsar, M.S.

    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.

  • Lee Mason, predoctoral fellow

    Lee Mason, M.S.

    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.

  • Leila Orszag is a postbaccalaureate fellow in the Trans-Divisional Research Program.

    Leila M. Orszag, B.A.

    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.

  • Lorena Sandoval, M.S., predoctoral fellow

    Lorena Sandoval, M.S.

    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.

  • Xueyao Wu is a predoctoral fellow in the Trans-Divisional Research Program.

    Xueyao Wu, BMed

    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.