People

Uthsav Chitra

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Uthsav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University advised by Ben Raphael.

His research focuses on developing computational methods for addressing fundamental problems in biology. He is particularly excited about developing spatiotemporal and graph-based ML algorithms for new biological technologies including single-cell/spatial ‘omics and CRISPR.

Google Scholar, CV (probably out-of-date), Personal Website

James O'Quinn

Postdoctoral Fellow

James is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of trajectory inference and spatial transcriptomics. James earned his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Muenster and has a research background in stochastic processes, information theory, and functional analysis.

Nerissa (Thu Nga) Vu

PhD student

Neri (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering co-advised by Uthsav Chitra and Sangkyun Cho. Neri previously earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University. Her email is tvu30@jh.edu.

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