Congratulations to Marissa for defending her PhD thesis, entitled “Identifying regulatory mechanisms in biological systems using nonlinear causal discovery”. Marissa worked on algorithm development for causal graph learning on non-linear data and participated in the development of HALO (Mao*, Jia*, Di*, et al, 2025, Nature Commun). Her work could not have been done without the help from her committee members (Drs. Chikina, Zhang, Cooper).
Congratulations Marissa!
Photo: Marissa during her thesis defense. Photo by Minxue Jia(Benos’ Lab alumnus).