William Bushnell Presidential Chaired Professor
Takis Benos, Ph.D.
Computational and Systems Biology of Disease
UF Clinical and Translational Research Building
Phone: 352-273-5048
Email: pbenos@ufl.edu
Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Marissa Di
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Genomics of chronic and infectious diseases.
MD/PhD Student, MSTP, UF
Delaney Ding
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present (co-advised with Dr. Robert Cook)
TBD.
Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Mark Ebeid
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Computational genomics and systems medicine.
Publications (1): Balci, et al. 2023
Postdoctoral Associate
Robert Gregg Ph.D.
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Progression of chronic diseases.
Awards: NIH-NLM T15 Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics (2021-2023)
Publications (3): Regan, et al. 2023 Gregg, Benos, 2024. Gregg, et al. 2024
Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Minxue Jia
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-2024
Disease subtyping and progression at single cell level.
Publications (9): Cruz*, Jia* et al. 2021 Tabib et al. 2021 Jia*, Yuan* et al. 2022 Mao*, Jia*, et al.2022 Jia* et al. 2023 Jia* et al. 2023b Jia*, Sayed*, Kapetanaki*, et al. 2023 Lovelace et al. 2024 Tourki et al. 2024
Assistant Professor (Associate member of Benos Lab)
Maria Kapetanaki
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Mechanisms of chronic diseases.
Publications (3): Jia* et al. 2023 Jia*, Sayed*, Kapetanaki*, et al. 2023 Tourki et al. 2024
PH.D. STUDENT, EPIDEMIOLOGY, UF
Shaira Kee
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present
Causal modeling of multi-modal biomedical data
Publications (1): Casanova et al. 2025
Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Tyler Lovelace
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Development of probabilistic graphical models for clinical data.
Awards: NIH-NLM F31 Predoctoral Fellow (2022-2025)
Publications (10): Cárdenes et al. 2021 Bing*, Lovelace* et al 2022 Jia*, Yuan* et al. 2022 Wu et al. 2022 Barak*, Lovelace*, et al. 2023 Barak*, Lovelace*, et al. 2023b Zeng, et al, 2024 Lovelace et al. 2024 Barak, et al. 2025 Lovelace, et al. 2025
Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Haiyi Mao
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Development of machine learning methods for clinical data integration.
Publications (4): Mao et al. 2020 Mao*, Jia*, et al.2022 Mao et al 2022 Mao et al. 2024
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
Omar Rafique, PhD
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2024-present
Algorithms for analysis of multi-modal data.
PH.D. STUDENT, EPIDEMIOLOGY, UF
Michael Sy
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present
Microbiome and disease. (jointly advised with Dr. Simone Marini)
Ph.D. Student, ECE, UF
Myles Tan
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present
Algorithms and analysis of multi-omits data.
