PI Dr. Todd J. Treangen Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science (primary), Bioengineering, Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University Senior Personnel Dr. Austin Marshall NLM BMI postdoctoral fellow interested in applying novel bioinformatic practices to microbiome studies Dr. Michael Nute Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Rice University R. Matt Barnett Software Engineer Dr. Michael X. Wang 6th Year Bioengineering Ph.D. student. Lead developer of Olivar. Graduate Students Rossie Luo 1st Year Ph.D. student, SSPB, multiple genome alignment and genotype-to-phenotype analysis Ryan Doughty 1st Year Compter Science Ph.D. student, interested in metagenomics and virome analysis. Dongwei Li 1st Year Ph.D. student, interested in machine learning and computational biology. Felix Quintana 3rd Year Ph.D. student interested in protein function prediction and model assessment. Natalie Kokroko 2nd Year Computer Science Ph.D. student, interested in microbiome analysis and metagenomics. Eddy Huang 3rd Year Ph.D. student, interested in Microbiome Analysis, Metagenomics Database, High Performance Computing, and Deep Learning Undergraduate Students Alumni Anika Patel Graduate Student (Rice CS) Dr. Bryce Kille Bioinformatics Scientist @ Illumina, big fan all things sequence analysis, high-performance computing, and discrete algorithms.