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Nadav is an assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine in the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. He is also affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He earned his PhD in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2021 under the supervision of Michal Linial and Nathan Linial. He was then a postdoctoral scholar at UCSF in the lab of Jimmie Ye.
Staff
Research Scientist
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Juan graduated from Sarah Lawrence College before pursuing his Master’s in Biomedical Science at Rutgers University. After this, he earned his PhD at New York University’s Vilcek Institute where he studied Computational Biomedicine, specializing in natural language processing and machine learning of biological sequences. His current interest is in genetic engineering using large language models. In his spare time, Juan independently develops video games, learns to play instruments, and composes music.
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Anushka completed her undergraduate studies at UC San Diego, where she gained research experience at Scripps Research. She then pursued a Master’s in Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, where her academic projects fostered a strong interest in leveraging artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), for biological research. She is excited to join the Brandes Lab, where her focus includes optimizing genomic sequences and expanding AI applications to understand non-coding regions of the genome. In her free time, Anushka enjoys taking dance classes, working out, and trying different restaurants.
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Po-Yu Lin is a Master’s student in the Biomedical Informatics program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He earned his Medical Doctor degree from National Cheng Kung University. He completed his neurology residency training and served as an attending physician in the Department of Neurology and Department of Genomic Medicine at National Cheng Kung University Hospital. Po-Yu’s clinical and research interests focus on variant pathogenicity interpretation and clinical decision support. He joined the Brandes Lab with a particular passion for the interpretability of genomic language models and their integration into clinical practice.
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Alex completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science at Oberlin College before pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science at NYU’s Courant Institute, where he works on machine learning and deep learning techniques in a variety of domains. He is currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify, working on model serving infrastructure. He is excited about leveraging large language models to solve problems in genomics. In his free time, he enjoys running, cycling and photography.
