People

Kannappan Palaniappan

Kannappan Palaniappan is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer science. He has received several notable awards, including the National Academies Jefferson Science Fellowship (first in Missouri), the NASA Public Service Medal for pioneering contributions to (Big Data)…

Knoo Lee

Knoo Lee began his scholastic focus in the field of engineering, but after two years of study, he went into the Korean Navy. Once there, he was influenced by his experiences to go into nursing. After getting his nursing education,…

Sean Lane

Research Interests My research focuses on emotion regulation processes, their downstream effects on health and relationship outcomes, and how these processes differ between representative and clinical subgroups. I apply and develop statistical methodologies, with a focus on nonlinear models and…

Gillian Bartlett

Mary York

Hi all, I’m Mary. I’m from Lonedell, a small rural town in eastern Missouri. I went into my undergraduate degree with a passion for biology and helping others. Towards the end of my degree I realized how important and abundant…

Deshan Wattegama

Deshan Wattegama is a Ph.D. student in the IDAS lab following a health informatics Ph.D. program. He worked as a senior software engineer for over 4 years and has domain knowledge in supply chain management, stock brokering, etc. He is…

Joseph Soundararajan

I am a Ph.D. student with experience in biological and data science. As a graduate student, currently in training to use tools to increase biomedical productivity and improve the impact of our research on improving public health. As an undergraduate,…

Pallav Singh

I am Pallav Singh, a passionate Bioinformatics Ph.D. student. My project aims to democratize multiomics visualization through an innovative web portal, simplifying data analysis and empowering researchers to extract valuable insights from complex biological datasets.

Md Kamruz Zaman Rana

Md Kamruz Zaman Rana, a Biomedical Informatics Software Engineer at the University of Missouri, is concurrently advancing his studies with a doctoral degree in Health Informatics at the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. Prior to his current role,…