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 AI/ML algorithms for new biological technologies including single-cell/spatial-omics and CRISPR.

Google Scholar, CV (last updated June 13, 2026), Personal Website

Lab Members

James O'Quinn

Postdoctoral fellow

Nerissa (Thu Nga) Vu

PhD student, ChemBE; co-advised with Sangkyun Cho

Sayuni (Sai) Dharmasena

PhD student, CS

Luiz Mata Lopez

PhD student, CS

Leyla Rasheed

PhD student, CS

Dhanav Handa

MS student, CS

Alice Mao

MS student, Bioinformatics

Lillianna Gund

MS student, CS

Evan Li

Undergraduate student, CS

Aditya (Adi) Jain

Undergraduate student, BME/AMS/CS

Angela Ning

Undergraduate student, CS/Biology

Hua (Harry) Jiang

Undergraduate student, CS

Chelsea Wong

Undergraduate student, CS

Kevin He

Undergraduate student, AMS/Econ

Mischa Kumar

Undergraduate student, CS

Catherine Cheng

Undergraduate student, AMS

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Group Photos

Strawberry picking (June 2026)

Strawberry picking (June 2026)

Lab social (Mar 2026)

Valentine's Day social (Feb 2026)

Lab hot pot group photo (Dec 2025)

Lab hot pot (Dec 2025)

Alumni

Students mentored at Princeton and Broad

• Claire Wu (2024-present), MIT undergraduate
  • Won MIT BioE best poster prize. Next position: Stanford PhD student
• 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
  • Won RECOMB-CCB best paper award. 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 student