Faraz Hach

Principal Investigator

Dr. Hach is an associate professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Research Scientist at Vancouver Prostate Centre. In 2013 he received his PhD in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Hach is the recipient 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 the recipient 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.

Ali Balapour

MSc Student (Sept, 2023 - present)

MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC

Mahdi Asmae

MSc Student (Sept, 2023 - present)

MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC

Hasti Jalali

MSc Student (Sept, 2024 - present)

MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC

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: Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at Natera

Ghazal Ebrahimi

MSc, Bioinformatics Program, UBC (Sept, 2020 - Aug, 2022)

NOW: Software Developer at Google

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: Senior ML Engineer at Shopify

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

Fatih Karaoglanoglu

PhD, CS, SFU (Sept, 2018 - Apr, 2025)
Jointly supervised by Cedric Chauve.

Now: TBD