CGSI 2026

CGSI Organizing Committee

Faculty 2026

Ahmed Alaa | UC Berkeley
Can Alkan | Bilkent University
Mohammed Alser | Georgia State University
Oren Avram | Optum/UCLA
Vineet Bafna | UC San Diego
Brunilda Balliu | UCLA
Vikas Bansal | UC San Diego
Lisa Bastarache | Vanderbilt
Kayhan Batmanghelich | Boston University
Gurkan Bebek | Case Western Reserve Univ.
Brian Browning | University of Washington
Na Cai | ETH Zurich
Francesco Paolo Casale | Helmholtz Munich
Guang Cheng | UCLA
Rayan Chikhi | Institut Pasteur
Uthsav Chitra | Johns Hopkins University
Andy Dahl | University of Chicago
Jessica Dennis | University of British Columbia
Mohammed El-Kebir | UIUC
Jason Ernst | UCLA
Can Firtina | University of Maryland
Nandita Garud | UCLA
Amy Goldberg | UCLA
Casey Greene | Univ. of Colorado Anschutz
Ilan Gronau | Reichman University
Gamze Gürsoy | University of Cambridge
Iman Hajirasouliha | Weill Cornell Medicine
Jo Hardin | Pomona College
Jaana Hartiala | UCLA
Farhad Hormozdiari | Google Health
Fereydoun Hormozdiari | UC Davis
Christian Huber | Penn State University
Margaux Hujoel | UCLA
Iuliana Ionita-Laza | Columbia University
Vanessa Jonsson | UCSC
Shalmali Joshi | Columbia University
Aly Khan | University of Chicago
Jaehee Kim | Cornell University
David Koslicki | Penn State University
Smita Krishnaswamy | Yale University
Christina Leslie | Memorial Sloan Kettering
Jingyi Jessica Li | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Qunhua Li | Penn State University
Sheng Li | Univ of Southern California
Wei Li | UC Irvine
Christoph Lippert | Hasso-Plattner-Institute
Stefano Lonardi | UC Riverside
Jose Lugo-Martinez | Carnegie Mellon University
Cong Ma | University of Michigan
Nick Mancuso | Univ of Southern California
Pejman Mohammadi | University of Washington
Hosein Mohimani | UCLA
Jason Moore | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Loes Olde Loohuis | UCLA
Bogdan Pasaniuc | U Penn
Itsik Pe’er | Columbia University
Pavel Pevzner | UC San Deigo
Peipei Ping | UCLA
Victoria Popic | The Broad Institute
Rajesh Ranganath | NYU
Ben Raphael | Princeton University
Nadav Rappoport | Ben-Gurion University
Saharon Rosset | Tel Aviv University
Eytan Ruppin | Cedar Sinai
Julia Salzman | Stanford University
Kris Sankaran | UW – Madison
Muralidharan Sargurupremraj | University of Texas
Palash Sashittal | Virginia Tech
Ayellet Segre | Harvard Medical School
Ritambhara Singh | Brown University
Pavel Skums | University of Connecticut
Sagi Snir | Haifa University
Paul Spellman | UCLA
Yosuke Tanigawa | UCLA
Veronica Tozzo | UCLA
Daniel Tward | UCLA
Peter Van Loo | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yoav Wald | New York University
Wei Wang | UCLA
Wenyi Wang | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tandy Warnow | Univ Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Xinzhu “April” Wei | Cornell University
Yufeng Wu | University of Connecticut
Jason Xu | UCLA
Yuzhe Yang | UCLA
Loic Yengo | University of Queensland
Noah Zaitlen | UCLA
Chongzhi Zang | University of Virginia
Alex Zelikovsky | Georgia State University
Linying Zhang | Washington University
Xinjun Zhang | University of Michigan
James Zou | Stanford University
Or Zuk | Hebrew University of Jerusalem