Stefano Lonardi, Professor and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education
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, the Data Science program, and the Algorithms and Computational Biology Lab.
Research Interests
Computational Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Data Mining
Active Research Projects
NSF, coPI, Data-driven engineering of the thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus, 2022-2025
NIH, coPI, Rapid response for pandemics: single cell sequencing and deep learning to predict antibody sequences against an emerging antigen, 2021-2025
Awards and Honorary Memberships
AAAS Fellow, 2018
ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2016
IEEE Fellow (Computer Society), 2016
NSF CAREER, 2005
Editorial Boards
BMC Bioinformatics
Program Committees
Past four years: ACM-BCB'24 (Shenzhen, China), ISMB'24 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), RECOMB'23 (Istanbul, Turkey), ISMB/ECCB'23 (Lyon, France), ACM-BCB 2023 (Houstin, TX) WABI'22 (Potsdam, Germany), ISMB'22 (Madison, WI), RECOMB'22 (San Diego, CA), WABI'21 (on-line), ACM BCB'21 (on-line), RECOMB'21 (on-line)
Current PhD Students
Sakshar Chakravarty 
(PhD candidate, CS&E)
Amirsadra Mohseni (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Faisal Bin Ashraf (PhD candidate, CS&E)
Stamatis Papadopoulos (PhD student, CS&E)
Fatima Nawmi (PhD student, CS&E)
Iftikhar Kalanther (PhD student, CS&E)
PhD Alumni
Saleh Sereshki (PhD 2024, CS&E, post-doc at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Dipankar Ranjan Baisya (PhD 2021, CS&E, Applied Scientist at Amazon Science)
Qihua Liang (PhD 2020, GGB, Software Engineer at Zoox)
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)
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 Students and alumni
Hao Feng (MS 2024, CS&E)
Justin Wang (MS 2022, CS&E)
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)
2024 CS Rankings
Proud that UCR ranks #9 world-wide in CS rankings for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics