Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

Romain Lopez

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biology

My research focuses on advancing machine learning and computational biology with the goal of enhancing our understanding of cellular processes, and of transforming drug discovery.

Lab Members

Jayoung Ryu

Postdoctoral Researcher

I’m working on ML methods for cross-modality integration, perturbation and single-cell data. I’m passionate about solving novel ML challenges arising from biology.

Jules Samaran

Postdoctoral Researcher

(Joining the BioML group in July 2026). My research focuses on the development of novel machine learning methods for the analysis of high-dimensional genomics data, with a particular emphasis on using optimal transport to integrate multiple single-cell modalities.

Rohan Subramanian

PhD Student (CS program)

I’m a first year CS PhD student passionate about machine learning for biology. I’m currently working on ML methods for understanding perturbation data.

Rushil Gupta

PhD Student (CS program)

I work on advancing AI methods to accelerate scientific discovery. My current focus is on building efficient, robust and generalizable frameworks for experimental design in diverse scientific domains.

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New Recruit

Come join us to work on state-of-the-art ML methods, and apply them to important biological problems!

Alumni

Ph.D. Internships Completed at Genentech:

  • Yichen Gu (2024) - from University of Michigan
  • Taro Makino (2024) - from New York University
  • Martin Rohbeck (2024) - from EMBL Heidelberg
  • Jayoung Ryu (2024) - from Harvard University
  • Kexin Huang (2023) - from Stanford
  • Rebecca Boiarsky (2023) - from MIT
  • Xinming Tu (2023) - from University of Washington
  • Zitong (Jerry) Wang (2023) - from California Institute of Technology
  • Ethan Weinberger (2022) - from University of Washington
  • Tara Chari (2022) - from California Institute of Technology

Master’s Thesis Completed at Berkeley:

  • Khalil Ouardini (2020) - then MSc student @ ENS Cachan, MVA
  • Achille Nazaret (2019) - then PhD student @ Columbia University, CS
  • Oscar Clivio (2019) - then PhD student @ Oxford University, Stats
  • Gabriel Misrachi (2019) - then Data Scientist @ Gleamer
  • Pierre Boyeau (2019) - then PhD student @ UC Berkeley, EECS
  • Maxime Langevin (2018) - then PhD student @ ENS, Paris and Sanofi
  • Edouard Mehlman (2018) - then Data Scientist @ Feedly
  • Yining Liu (2018) - then PhD student @ Columbia University, CS
  • Jules Samaran (2018) - then PhD student @ ENS Paris