Lab Members

HABTOM W. RESSOM, PH.D.

Professor

Dr. Ressom is a professor of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is interested in cancer biomarker discovery and systems biology research. Specifically, he uses multi-omic approaches for analysis of human blood and tissues to identify cancer biomarkers and aberrant pathways and network activities. Dr. Ressom's laboratory is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, he is the Director of the Georgetown Lombardi Genomics and Epigenomics Shared Resource, which provides various services including gene expression profiling, microRNA expression profiling, DNA methylation analysis, DNA copy number variation (CNV) analysis, SNP genotyping, and next generation sequencing.

Email: hwr@georgetown.edu Office: 175 Building D Phone:202-687-2283

RENCY S. VARGHESE

Research Associate

Ms. Varghese obtained her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Maine, Orono and her Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India. She worked as software engineer/consultant for two years in India. Before joining LCCC in 2004, she worked as Research Assistant during her study at University of Maine, where she applied methods such as artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing for microarray data analysis and DNA base calling. Her current interests are in computational biology, biomarker discovery, network and pathway analysis using next gen sequencing and mass spectrometry data.

Email: rsv4@georgetown.edu Office: 174 Building D Phone:202-687-7369

Muhammad Salman Sajid

Research Associate

Muhammad Salman Sajid completed his PhD at the Institute of Chemical Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan Pakistan and University of Adelaide, Australia 2021. His research interests are proteomics, mass spectrometric techniques, affinity chromatography and designing versatile micro- and nano-based materials for targeted biomarker discovery. He joined Ressom Group in 2021 with focus on designing workflows for large-scale omics studies to identify reliable biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Email: ms4868@georgetown.edu Office: W325 Research Building Phone:202-687-2926

Md Mamunur Rashid

Research Associate

Md Mamunur Rashid received his Ph.D. in the field of Biomedical Science and Technology (Biological Chemistry) from Korea University of Science and Technology (UST) in August 2020. Before joining Georgetown University, he worked as Assistant Researcher at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. His research interests are metabolomics, lipidomics, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics and analytical method development and validation using various liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques. His current focus is to discover and validate novel biomarkers for the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using metabolomics approach.

Email: mamunurkist@gmail.com Office: W325 Research Building Phone:202-687-4453

Everett Oliver

PhD Candidate

Everett Oliver received his master's degree in biochemistry from Howard University in 2016 and his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2006. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Howard University. The focus of his research involves characterization of conditionally reprogrammed primary hepatic cells, including optimization of the culturing techniques.

Email: eo359@georgetown.edu Office: W325 Research Building Phone:202-687-4453

Hoi Yan Katharine Chau

Research Assistant

Katharine Chau received her B.S. in Chemistry from University of Vermont in 2019 and M.S. degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Georgetown University in 2021. She is currently focusing on convolutional neural networks for compound fingerprint prediction and mass spectrometry metabolomics data analysis. Her current interests are bioinformatics and data analysis involving artificial neural networks.

Email: hc820@georgetown.edu Office: 173 Building D Phone: 202-687-7369

Shafaq Saleem

Research Associate

Shafaq Saleem earned her PhD in Bioanalytical Chemistry from The Women University Multan, Pakistan, where she developed

novel affinity materials for the selective enrichment of phosphopeptides. Dr. Saleem has expertise in high-resolution mass spectrometry and has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications in proteomics and cancer research. She is currently involved in a project focused on early detection strategies for liver cancer through large-scale phosphoproteomic profiling.

Email: ss5292@georgetown.edu Office: W325 Research Building Phone: 202-687-7369

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Xinran Zhang, received her M.S. in Data Science & Analytics from Georgetown University.
Yichen Guo, received his BS in History and Economics, and Mathematics at the University of Southern California and M.S. in Data Science & Analytics from Georgetown University.
Yuansong Ding, received his BS in Mathematics with a concentration in Mathematical Computing from Umass Amherst and M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University.
Megan McNamara, (C’16, G’23) and MD/PhD candidate in tumor biology at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Hongyu Ao, received his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Toronto and MSc in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University.
Yohana Alemseged, received her B.S in Biology from the Eritrea Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree in Bioinformatics at Georgetown university.
Shijinqiu Gao, received her B.S. degree in Mathematics, Data Science from Bowling Green State University and her M.S. in Mathematics and statistics from Georgetown University in 2022.
Ye-In Jeon, received her B.S. in Statistics & M.S. in Data Science from George Washington University and M.S. in Biostatistics at Georgetown University in 2022.
Cristina Di Poto, received her PhD degree in Biochemistry from University of Pavia, Italy in 2008 and her Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences, Biology, from University of Pavia, Italy in 2003.
Shan Su, received her PhD degree in molecular pharmacology from Heidelberg University, Germany in 2015
Kuijun Wang, received her B.S. in Statistics from HKBU-BNU United International College, and her M.S. in Biostatistics at Georgetown University.
Ziling Fan received his master's degree in computer science and a PhD in biochemistry rom Georgetown University.
Amber Alley, received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from College of the Holy Cross and her M.S. in Bioinformatics from Georgetown University.
Kian Ghaffari, received his B.S. degree in Bioengineering from George Mason University and M.S. degree in Bioinformatics at Georgetown University.
Yifan Chen, received her B.S. degree in applied statistics from Southern Medical University, China in 2017 . She received her M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University in 2021.
Yuan Zhou, received her B.S. degree in Statistics from HKBU-BNU United International College, China in 2017. She received her M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University in 2020.
Xuchen Wang, received her B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Nankai University, China in 2016. She received her M.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University.
Chaohui (George) Xu, obtained his B.A. degree in Mathematics from University of Washington - Seattle in 2015. He received his MS in Mathematics and Statistics from Georgetown University.
Zhenzhi Li, obtained his M.S. from Georgetown Bioinformatics Programs at Georgetown University.
Grace Yi Chen,received her B.S. degree in Statistics from University of Toronto, Canada in 2016 and her M.S at Georgetown University in Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics in 2017.
Shisi He,received her B.S. degree in Biostatistics from Southern Medical University, China in 2014 and her M.S at Georgetown University in Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics in 2017.
Yiming Zuo, Ph.D., received his B.S. degree in the Information Science & Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University, China in 2012. He received his Ph.D.in 2017 in the Electrical & Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Kevin Minkun Wang, Ph.D., received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. and his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Alessia Ferrarini, Ph.D., obtained her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from San Pablo CEU University in Madrid, Spain in 2014 and her MSc in Pharmacy in 2010 from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Chao Tu, received his B.S. degree in Biostatistics from Southern Medical University, China in 2013, and M.S. degree at Georgetown University in Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics in 2016.
Mohammad R. Nezami Ranjbar, Ph.D. received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran and his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. His research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning, statistical analysis, and signal processing.
Tsung-Heng Tsai, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (2014), Virginia Tech, and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Control Engineering (2005), National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is now working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Northeast University. His research focuses on applications of statistical machine learning to problems in biomarker discovery and systems biology.
Yue Luo (Karen), M.S., received her M.S. degree in analytical chemistry from University of Vermont, and her B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China. She is now working as a senior MS field applications specialist at Waters.
Jinlian Wang, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from College of Electrical Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China in 2008. She currently works at Genetic and Genomics Clinical Lab at Icahn Mount Sinai Medical School as a Bioinformatics Scientist. Her research direction is helping clinician to diagnosis novel variants using NGS and developing pipeline to analyze NGS data.
Yi Zhao, Ph.D., received her B.S. in statistics from School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University, China. She got her M.S. in biostatistics from Georgetown University, USA in 2012. She received her Ph.D from Brown University and currently works as a post doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University.
Bin Zhou, M.S., received his B.S. degree from Wuhan University, China and M.S. degree from Zhejiang University, China and Virginia Tech all in Electrical Engineering. His research interest focuses on developing signal processing and machine learning methods for analysis of metabolomic data.
JunFeng Xiao, Ph.D.,received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2009. He is interested in applying mass spectrometry for both proteomics and metabolomics studies.
Yuji Zhang, Ph.D., Virginia Tech (Currently Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN )Ph.D. Thesis (2005-10): "Module-based analysis of biological data for network inference and biomarker discovery"
Leepika Tuli, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgetown University
Zhiqun Tang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgetown University
Getachew K. Befekadu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Georgetown University
Lanlan Yin, M.S., Georgetown University
Kevin Turner, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2005-07): "Estimation of ocean water chlorophyll-a concentration using fuzzy c-means clustering and artificial neural networks"
Mohamad Driss, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2002-05): "Nonlinear PCA based on radial basis function and particle swarm optimization"
Kamal Shannak, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2002-04): "On nonlinear principal component analysis for process monitoring"
Rency S. Varghese, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2002-04): "Confidence measure for DNA base calling using a fuzzy system"
Siva Srirangam, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2002-04) "Retrieval of oceanic and physiological parameters using computational intelligence"
Wayne H. Slade, Jr., M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2001-04) "Computational intelligence approaches to ocean color inversion"
Dali Wang, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2000-03): "Adaptive double self-organizing map for clustering gene expression data"
Robert Reynolds, M.S., University of Maine. M.S. Thesis (2000-01): "Gene expression data analysis using fuzzy logic"
Yuqing Zhang, High school intern

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