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.
Publications (1): Mao*, Jia*, Di*, et al. 2025
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
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 (2): Casanova et al. 2025 Ahmed*, Kee*, et al. 2025
MD Student, UF
Daniel Lichlyter
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2025-present
Molecular biomarkers of cardiovascular outcomes.
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.
PH.D. STUDENT, Biostatistics, UF
Yuhan Wang
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2025-present (co-advised by Prof. Chen Li)
Project: TBD.
