Lab Members
Faraz Hach
Principal Investigator
Dr. Hach is an assistant professor in department of Urologic Sciences at University of British Columbia and Senior Research Scientist at Vancouver Prostate Centre. In 2013 he received his PhD in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Hach is the recepient of Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for outstanding student paper at the 20th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB2012) - see coverage here. He is also recepient of the Governor General's Gold Medal for the best doctoral thesis award from Simon Fraser University in 2014 - see coverage here and here. In 2020, Dr. Hach received Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award.
Fatih Karaoglanoglu
PhD Student (Sept, 2018 - present)
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jointly supervised by Cedric Chauve.
Alumni
Can Kockan
MSc, CS, SFU (Sept, 2014 - Aug, 2016)
Jointly supervised with Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale , USA
Alex Gawronski
PhD, CS, SFU (Sept, 2013 - Aug, 2018)
Jointly supervised with Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp
Now: Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com, Inc.
Tizian Schulz
Visiting PhD Research Student (Apr, 2018 - Oct, 2018)
Now: PhD Student at Bielefeld University, Germany
James Gleave
Summer Intern (July, 2018 - Aug, 2019)
Now: B.Sc. Student at Queen's Univerisity, Canada
Ehsan Haghshenash
PhD, CS, SFU (Sept, 2014 - Apr, 2020)
Jointly supervised with Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp and Cedric Chauve
Now: Lead Bioinformatics Scientist at Natera
Hossein Asghari
MSc, CS, SFU (Sept, 2016 - Aug, 2019)
Research Associate (Oct 2019, Apr, 2020)
Now: Computational Biologist at Ocean Genomics
Ghazal Ebrahimi
MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC (Sept, 2020 - Aug, 2022)
NOW: Data Engineer at Localintel
Tunc Morova
PhD, Bioinformatics Program, UBC (Jan, 2019 - Dec, 2022)
Jointly supervised with Nathan Lack
NOW: Data Scientist / Bioinformatician at Synlico Inc
Armita Safa
MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC (Jan, 2021 - Dec, 2022)
Volunteer Research Student, Vancouver Prostate Centre (May 2020 - Dec 2020)
NOW: Software Engineer at Tegus
Reza Soltani
MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC (Sept, 2020 - Dec, 2022)
NOW: Data Scientist at Electronic Arts (EA)
Baraa Orabi
PhD, CS, UBC (Sept, 2019 - Aug, 2024)
Jointly supervised with Cedric Chauve.
Research Assistant, Vancouver Prostate Centre (Jan, 2019 - Aug, 2019)
MSc, CS, SFU (Sept, 2017 - Dec, 2018)
Now: Computational Biologist at 10x Genomics Jointly supervised with Cedric Chauve.