Stefano Lonardi, Professor and Associate Chair
Faculty member of the Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics, the Center for Plant Cell Biology, the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, the Materials Science and Engineering program, and the Algorithms and Computational Biology Lab.
Research Interests
Computational Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Data Mining
Active Research Projects
NSF, PI, Improving de novo Genome Assembly using Optical Maps, 2018-21, project webpage
Awards and Honorary Memberships
ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2017
IEEE Fellow (Computer Society), 2016
NSF CAREER, 2005
Editorial Boards
BMC Bioinformatics, Genes.
Program Committees
Past four years: ACM BCB'20 (Atlanta, GA), WABI'20 (Pisa, Italy), RECOMB'20 (Padova, Italy) ISMB/ECCB'19 (Basel, Switzerland), ACM BCB'19 (Niagara Falls, NY) ACM BCB'18 (Washington, DC), ISMB'18 (Chicago, IL), ACM BCB'17 (Area Chair, Boston, MA), SPIRE'17 (Palermo, Italy), WABI'17 (Boston, MA),
Current Students
Dipankar Ranjan Baisya 
(PhD student, CS&E)
Saleh Sereshki (PhD student, CS&E)
Sakshar Chakravarty (PhD student, CS&E)
Amirsadra Mohseni (PhD student, GGB)
PhD Alumni
Qihua Liang (PhD 2020, GGB, Bioinformatics Scientist at Zymergen)
Md. Abid Hasan (PhD 2019, CS&E, Principal Scientist at Roche Sequencing)
Abbas Roayaei Ardakany (PhD 2019, CS&E, Post-doc at La Jolla Institute for Immunology)
Weihua Pan (PhD 2019, CS&E, Research Professor at Shenzhen Agricultural Genome Research Inst.)
Hind Alhakami (PhD 2017, CS&E, Bioinformatics Scientist at Dovetail Genomics)
Rachid Ounit (PhD 2017, CS&E, EAS Lead at Karius)
Seyed Hamid Mirebrahim (PhD 2015, Principal Scientist at Roche Sequencing)
Anton Polishko (PhD 2014, CS&E, Head of Technology at Blockchain 48)
Denise Duma (PhD 2013, CS&E, post-doc at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York)
Elena Harris (PhD 2010, CS&E, Associate Professor at Cal State, Chico)
Serdar Bozdag (PhD 2008, CS&E, Associate Professor at University of North Texas)
Vladimir Vacic (PhD 2008, CS&E, Bioinformatics Scientist at 23andme)
Yonghui Wu (PhD 2008, CS&E, Distinguished Engineer at Google Brain)
Jie Zheng (PhD 2006, CS&E, Associate Professor at ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China)
Qiaofeng Yang (PhD 2006, GGB, Manager Scientific Games)
MS/BS Alumni
Sara Nasseri (MS 2014, CS&E, with Western Digital)
Matthew Alpert (BS 2013, CS&E, with Turtle Rock Studios)
Mo Cao (MS 2012, CS&E, with Xangati)
Burair Alsaihati (MS 2011, CS&E, PhD student at University of Georgia and JCGR, KACST)
Neeti Pokhriyal (MS 2009, CS&E, PhD student at University at Buffalo)
Vi Pham (MS 2006, CS&E)
San Nguyen (MS 2006, CS&E, with Raytheon)
George Hsu (MS 2005, CS&E, with NYU)
Hongwei Ji (MS 2004, CS&E, with EBSCO Publishing)
Yu Luo (MS 2004, CS&E, with Glidewell Lab, Irvine)
Visitors
Matthew Goldberg (BS 2015, CS&E UCLA, with UMD)
Alberto Castellini (Visiting Scholar, CS&E, with University of Verona)
Davide Verzotto (Visiting Scholar, CS&E, with Genome Institute of Singapore)