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.

Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Mark Ebeid
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Computational genomics and systems medicine.
Publications: Balci, et al. 2023

Postdoctoral Associate
Robert Gregg Ph.D.
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Progression of chronic diseases.
T15 Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics (2021-2023)
Publications: Regan, et al. 2023

Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Minxue Jia
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Disease subtyping and progression at single cell level.
Publications: Cruz*, Jia* et al. 2021 Tabib et al. 2021 Jia*, Yuan* et al. 2022 Jia* et al. 2023 Jia* et al. 2023b

Assistant Professor (Associate member of Benos Lab)
Maria Kapetanaki
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2020-present
Mechanisms of chronic diseases.
Publications: Jia* et al. 2023

PH.D. STUDENT, EPIDEMIOLOGY, UF
Shaira Kee
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present
TBD

Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Tyler Lovelace
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Development of probabilistic graphical models for clinical data. NIH-NLM F31 Predoctoral Fellow (2022-)
Publications: Cárdenes et al. 2021 Bing*, Lovelace* et al 2022 Jia*, Yuan* et al. 2022 Wu et al. 2022 Barak*, Lovelace*, et al. 2023

Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Haiyi Mao
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Development of machine learning methods for clinical data integration.
Publications: Mao et al. 2020 Mao et al 2022

Ph.D. Student, ISB, Pitt
Feng Shan
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2018-present
Cancer immunology.
(co-advised by Prof. Dario Vignali)
Publications: Cillo, et al. 2021 Shan et al. 2023

PH.D. STUDENT, EPIDEMIOLOGY, UF
Michael Sy
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2023-present
TBD.

Ph.D. Student, CPCB, Pitt
Daniel Yuan
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2019-present
Development of probabilistic graphical models for clinical data.
T32 Predoctoral Fellow in Cancer Immunology (2020-2021)
Publications: Fuccello et al. 2020 Jia*, Yuan* et al. 2022 Shan et al. 2023

Ph.D. Student, Epidemiology, UF
Wenjie Zeng
Time in Benos’ Lab: 2022-present
Graphical models with application to Sjogren’s syndrome.
1st Place, UF Research Day 2023
