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


Graduate Student


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


2025 Undergraduate Trainees in our Biomedical Big Data Science Program


Wright Chen
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computational Biology, Columbia University



Eric Do
Bioinformatics Trainee
Mathematics, Cornell University



Olivia Feeney
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computational Biology, Barnard College



Jayla Hsiung
Bioinformatics Trainee
Applied Mathematics (Pre-Med Track), Brown University



Diya Rana
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computer Science and Molecular Biology, MIT



Leyla Rasheed
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computer Science, Duke University



Zara Shah
Bioinformatics Trainee
Biological Sciences and Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University



Andrew Van Dusen
Bioinformatics Trainee
Biological Engineering (major), Computer Science (minor), MIT



Aaron Yan
Bioinformatics Trainee
Molecular and Cell Biology, Data Science, University of California, Berkeley



Alec Yang
Bioinformatics Trainee
Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Duke University



Daniel Zhu
Bioinformatics Trainee
Computer Science, Brown University

Alumni