Mitchell Pillarick III

First and foremost, Mitch Pillarick is a loving husband to his wife Vanessa, and a caring father to his three children. Mitch is an Eagle Scout with the Vigil Honor. He was commissioned  as a US Army Officer in 2008…

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,…

Polycarp Nalela

I have a Bachelors degree in Science Technology, Masters degree in Biotechnology, and currently pursing a PhD in Informatics. I have worked with data especially analytics for over 10 years. Initially, I started with R analyzing data from breeding trials…

Noah Marchel

My research interests are in the use pervasive computing and AI for the healthcare domain, with particular focus on novel ad-hoc machine learning models of multi-modal sensor and electronic medical records as components for augmented decision support interfaces. The primary…

Farzaneh Esmaili

Farzaneh is currently pursuing her PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Missouri, building on her previous master’s degree in Software and IT Engineering from Iran. Known for her vibrant energy and passion for coding, her famous phrase “I’m coding…