Team

Head of Laboratory


Avi Ma’ayan PhD
Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
Center Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics
Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Principal Investigator, Data Resource Center for the Common Fund Data Ecosystem
Principal Investigator, Mount Sinai’s Proteogenomic Data Analysis Center
Principal Investigator, LymeMIND Data Coordination Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
E-mail: avi.maayan@mssm.edu


Program Director

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Sherry Jenkins, MS
Director, Summer Research Training Program in Biomedical Big Data Science
MS in Computer Science
Fairleigh Dickinson University
E-mail: sherry.jenkins@mssm.edu


Data Scientist


Daniel Clarke, MS
Data Science Analyst III
BS, MS in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Fairleigh Dickinson University


Bioinformatician


John Erol Evangelista, MS
Bioinformatician II
BS, MS in Computer Science
University of the Philippines Diliman


Bioinformatics Software Engineers


Anna Byrd, MEng
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
MEng in Computer Engineering
BE in Biomedical Engineering
BA in Engineering Sciences
Dartmouth College



Ido Diamant, BS
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
BS in Biomedical Engineering, Minor: Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst



John Gardner, BA
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
BA in Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley



Lily Taub, MSc
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
MSc in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Dartmouth College
BA in Computer Science, Middlebury College


Graduate Student


Abinanda Prabhakaran
Master’s Student
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


2026 Undergraduate Trainees in our Biomedical Big Data Science Program


Mell Aguiar
Bioinformatics Trainee
Chemistry, Princeton University



Karen Chen
Bioinformatics Trainee
Applied Mathematics, Brown University



Winson Dong
Bioinformatics Trainee
Biometry and Statistics (major), Ecological Biology (minor), Cornell University



Jacob Hadley
Bioinformatics Trainee
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Brown University



Vera Hsiang
Bioinformatics Trainee
Applied Mathematics (major), Biomedical Engineering (minor), Columbia University



Andrew Pan
Bioinformatics Trainee
Biomedical Engineering (major), Computer Science (minor), Columbia University



Duncan Park
Bioinformatics Trainee
Mathematics and Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematical Biology concentration, Cornell University



Chloe Qin
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computational Neuroscience, Brown University



Aleeza Rasheed
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computer Science and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison



Daniel Zhu
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computer Science, Brown University

Alumni