Celebrating the newest CBB doctoral graduates

Congratulations to the following doctoral students who have successfully defended their dissertations and will graduate from the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics PhD Program.  

Shengyu Li delivered his dissertation defense on A Computational Framework for Understanding Transcription Factor-DNA Binding and Effects of Non-Coding Variants on November 17, 2025. Committee members: Raluca Gordan, PhD (advisor), Andrew Allen, PhD, (chair), Gregory Crawford, PhD, and Michael Love, PhD.

Yiling Liu delivered her dissertation defense on Robust and Scalable Causal Inference: Domain Alignment, Time-Series Counterfactuals, Multi-Treatment & Multi-Outcome Causal Effects, and LLM-Integrated Causal Discovery on July 10, 2025. Committee members: David Carlson, PhD, (co-chair), David Page, PhD (co-chair), John Pearson, PhD, and Lingchong You, PhD.

Christian Richardson delivered his dissertation defense on Quantitative Bioimage Analysis of Tissue Morphogenesis on October 24, 2025. Committee members: Stefano Di Talia, PhD, (co-chair), Akankshi Munjal, PhD (co-chair), David Carlson, PhD, Bill Majoros, PhD, and Carlo Tomasi, PhD.

Hana Wasserman delivered her dissertation defense on Exploring the Effects of Transcription Factor Binding on DNA Damage Formation and Repair at Single-Nucleotide Resolution on November 7, 2025. Committee members: Raluca Gordan, PhD (advisor), David MacAlpine, PhD, (chair), Hashim Al-Hashimi, PhD, and Alex Hartemink, PhD.