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.
Lab Members
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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Aspiring Scientist
Interested in joining us and developing the next generation of machine learning algorithms for important biological applications? Please check out our open positions!
Alumni
Students mentored at Princeton and Broad
- Claire Wu (2024-present), MIT undergraduate (won MIT BioE best poster prize)
- Kohei Sanno (2023-2024), Princeton CS undergraduate
- Next position: UC Berkeley PhD student
- Clover Zheng (2023-present), Princeton CS PhD student
- Sunay Joshi (2022-2024), Princeton math undergraduate
- Next position: UPenn Applied Math PhD student
- Ahmed Shuaibi (2020-2025), Princeton QCB PhD student
- Next position: Research Scientist at Meta
- Madelyne Xiao (2022), Princeton CS PhD student
- Kimberly Ding (2019-2021), Princeton CS undergraduate (won Princeton CS senior thesis prize)
- Next position: Quant at Virtu Financial
- Shirley Zhang (2020-2022), Princeton CS undergraduate (won NSF GRFP)
- Next position: Harvard CS PhD