People page alumni staff scientist and SE update

cassieperry · web-flow · commit a6e5601982b4 · 2025-10-22T14:25:14.000-04:00
diff --git a/_people/alex-balashov.md b/_people/alex-balashov.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/alex-balashov">Alex Balashov</a>
 name: Alex Balashov
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Senior Software Developer (2016-2022), 4D Nucleome DCIC"
+professional_title: "Senior Software Developer, 4D Nucleome DCIC"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/alison-barton.md b/_people/alison-barton.md
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/alison-barton">Alison Barton</a>
 name: Alison Barton
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "MPhil in Biological Science (Genetics), University of Cambridge, PhD Student, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG), Scientific Programmer (2016-2018)"
+professional_title: "Biology and Archaeological Studies, Yale; MPhil in Biological Science (Genetics), University of Cambridge → PhD Student, BIG, Harvard"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/alison-barton.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 start_date: 2016-01-01
-end_date: 2017-01-01
+end_date: 2018-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/alon-galor.md b/_people/alon-galor.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/alon-galor">Alon Galor</a>
 name: Alon Galor
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "B.S. in Applied Mathematics - Biology, Brown University, Scientific Programmer (2017-2021), PhD student, University of Oxford"
+professional_title: "Applied Mathematics, Brown → PhD Student, University of Oxford"
 description: "Alon is a recent graduate of Brown University, with a degree in Applied Mathematics - Biology (B.S.) and Economics (B.A.). Prior to joining the lab, he worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School and spent summers at Central and Investment Banks. In the coming years, Alon hopes to pursue doctoral studies in Biomedical Informatics."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/andrea-cosolo.md b/_people/andrea-cosolo.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/andrea-cosolo">Dr. Andrea Cosolo</a>
 name: Dr. Andrea Cosolo
 subtitle: Data Curator  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "PhD in Biology, Ludwig Maximilians University and IMPRS-LS, Munich (Germany), Data Curator, 4D Nucleome DCIC (2019-2023), Roche, Scientist"
+professional_title: "PhD in Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich → Scientist, Roche"
 description: "Andrea Cosolo received his BS and MS in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Udine (Italy), and his PhD in Biology from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (Germany). During his doctoral training as a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School, he studied tissue regeneration and the signaling pathways implicated in tissue stress responses. Andrea then joined the Park Lab as Data Curator with the 4D Nucleome Data Coordination and Integration Center. His interests include microscopy and spatial omics technologies and standards for FAIR data sharing."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/antuan-tran.md b/_people/antuan-tran.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/antuan-tran">Antuan Tran</a>
 name: Antuan Tran
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Jr. Scientific Programmer (2021-2023), Medical School Student, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine"
+professional_title: "CS, Harvard → Medical Student, Mayo Clinic"
 description: "Antuan graduated from Harvard College in 2017, receiving a B.A. in computer science and electrical engineering. He then joined the cybersecurity startup PreVeil for 3.5 years, working as a software engineer and backend team lead. Antuan was a junior scientific programmer at the Park lab and begins medical school at Mayo this year!"
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/benedikt-geiger.md b/_people/benedikt-geiger.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/benedikt-geiger">Benedikt Geiger</a>
 name: Benedikt Geiger
 subtitle: Bioinformatics Scientist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Associate Computational Biologist (2022-2024)"
+professional_title: " BS/MS, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Thesis: “Correlated Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Mutational Signature Analysis” → PhD Student, BIG, Harvard"
 description: "Benedikt received a BS and MS in mathematics at the university of Bonn where research involved pattern formation mechanisms in bacteria models. Shifting from mathematical research to computational biology, he completed the MBI program at HMS before joining the lab. In the lab, Benedikt developed new algorithms and software for mutational signature analysis."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/bianca-morris.md b/_people/bianca-morris.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/bianca-morris">Bianca Morris</a>
 name: Bianca Morris
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "ALM<br/>Sr. Front End Engineer"
+professional_title: "ALM, Sr. Front End Engineer"
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/bianca-morris.jpg
diff --git a/_people/carl-vitzthum-0.md b/_people/carl-vitzthum-0.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/carl-vitzthum-0">Carl Vitzthum</a>
 name: Carl Vitzthum
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Senior Software Developer (2016-2020), 4D Nucleome DCIC, Senior Software Engineer, Seres Therapeutics"
+professional_title: "BA in Computational Biology, Colby College → Senior Software Engineer, Seres Therapeutics"
 description: "Carl completed his B.A. in computational biology at Colby College in Spring 2016 and joined the Park lab shortly after. After starting as a Junior Scientific Programmer in Park Lab, he was rapidly promoted first to Junior Software Developer, then Software Developer, and finally Senior Software Developer for the 4DN DCIC. He manages the back-end development and DevOps of the 4DN Data Portal. As acting lead developer, he helps to coordinate and plan software development throughout the 4DN DCIC team."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/chad-serrant.md b/_people/chad-serrant.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/chad-serrant">Chad Serrant</a>
 name: Chad Serrant
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Senior Software Developer (2016-2019), Software Engineer, VMware Tanzu Labs"
+professional_title: "BS in Computer Science, MIT → Software Engineer, VMware Tanzu Labs"
 description: "Chad graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and uses his software development skills to help the healthcare industry.Before joining HMS, Chad was part of Athenahealth, improving interfaces used during patient visits. At HMS Chad helped the Undiagnosed Disease Network link patients with doctors and researchers around the world.Chad believes technology should handle organizing health information so medical practitioners can focus on keeping us healthy."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/clara-bakker.md b/_people/clara-bakker.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/clara-bakker">Clara Bakker</a>
 name: Clara Bakker
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Jr. Scientific Programmer, 4D Nucleome DCIC (2019-2025)"
+professional_title: "Jr. Scientific Programmer, 4D Nucleome DCIC"
 description: "Clara Bakker is a Junior Scientific Programmer with the 4D Nucleome Data Coordination and Integration Center. She is a graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York, where she received a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics. There, she worked as a computational chemistry researcher in the Cacciuto Group at Columbia, studying self-assembly of soft active matter."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/david-michaels.md b/_people/david-michaels.md
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/david-michaels.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
+end_date: 2024-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/doug-rioux.md b/_people/doug-rioux.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
-person_title: <a href="/people/doug-rioux">Dr.  Doug Rioux</a>
-name: Dr.  Doug Rioux
+person_title: <a href="/people/doug-rioux">Doug Rioux</a>
+name: Doug Rioux
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Data Curator (2021-2024)"
+professional_title: "MD, Yale"
 description: "Doug received his M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, during which time he was an HHMI Research Fellow for two years studying neurogenetics in Drosophila. He is now working as a data curator for the CGAP project."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/eric-berg.md b/_people/eric-berg.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/eric-berg">Eric Berg</a>
 name: Eric Berg
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Cloud Software Engineer for the Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP) (2020-2021)"
+professional_title: "BA in English and Computer Science, Tufts"
 description: "Eric Berg joined Park Lab’s Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP) in June 2020 as a Cloud Software Engineer.Eric received a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 2011, double majoring in English and Computer Science. After spending a couple years working for the Tufts CS/ECE Department as a Web Systems Administrator, he spent several years working at a location technology company in NYC, first as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), then as a Software Engineer.His interests include building secure, reliable infrastructure, and he looks forward to contributing to CGAP."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/geehoon-hong.md b/_people/geehoon-hong.md
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/geehoon-hong">Geehoon  Hong</a>
 name: Geehoon  Hong
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "MS in Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Research Assistant (2009-2010), Data Analyst, TrackMan"
+professional_title: "Mathematics, Georgia Tech → Data Analyst, TrackMan"
 description: "Research Assistant (2009-2010), a recent MIT graduate in mathematics, now a combinatorics graduate student at Georgia Tech"
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/geehoon-hong.jpg
 hide_footer: true
+start_date: 2009-01-01
+end_date: 2010-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/jennifer-marx.md b/_people/jennifer-marx.md
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/jennifer-marx">Jennifer Marx</a>
 name: Jennifer Marx
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "MEng in Electrical Engineering, Boston University, Lead Software Developer (2015-2019)"
+professional_title: "MEng in Electrical Engineering, Boston University → Lead Software Developer"
 description: "Full-stack web developer with a background in electrical engineering and industrial design."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/jennifer-marx.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 start_date: 2015-01-01
-end_date: 2016-01-01
+end_date: 2019-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/jeremy-johnson-0.md b/_people/jeremy-johnson-0.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/jeremy-johnson-0">Jeremy Johnson</a>
 name: Jeremy Johnson
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Software Development Lead (2016-2019), 4D Nucleome DCIC"
+professional_title: "Software Development Lead, 4D Nucleome DCIC"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/jonathan-dreyfuss.md b/_people/jonathan-dreyfuss.md
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/jonathan-dreyfuss">Jonathan Dreyfuss</a>
 name: Jonathan Dreyfuss
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "MS, Bioinformatics Analyst (2006-2008), Director, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School"
+professional_title: "Bioinformatics, Boston University → Director, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core, Instructor in Medicine, HMS"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/jonathan-dreyfuss.jpg
 hide_footer: true
+start_date: 2006-01-01
+end_date: 2008-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/kent-pitman.md b/_people/kent-pitman.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/kent-pitman">Kent Pitman</a>
 name: Kent Pitman
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Lead Senior Software Developer for the Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP) (2019-2023)"
+professional_title: "Lead Senior Software Developer for the Clinical Genomics Analysis Platform (CGAP)"
 description: "Kent Pitman holds a B.S. in Philosophy and Linguistics from MIT. There he authored a few libraries for the EMACS text editor, created a Fortran to Lisp translator, and published his first two of many papers. Soon after graduating, at England’s Open University, he designed and implemented an early (pre-web) hypertext editor. Kent has participated heavily in design and implementation of the Lisp and Scheme programming languages. He was co-author of the Revised^5 Report on Scheme, and served as both a major technical contributor and Project Editor for creation of the American National Standard for Common Lisp, X3.226-1994. Later he was also a technical contributor, United States Representative, and Project Editor for the International Standard for ISLISP, ISO/IEC 13816:1997(E).On his personal time, Kent has participated as an implementor, administrator, and user of a variety of cyber communities, and blogs on issues of social justice. He has chaired two small conferences, and participated as on the paper review committee for some others.In professional settings, he has held positions from programmer to CTO at companies he’s worked for. He’s programmed both the internals and the user interface in domains as varied as symbolic algebra, expert systems technology, document format translation, document display and print rendering, web server technology, retail store security video, and hospital scheduling. At DBMI's Park Lab, Kent has a technical leadership role in development of the secure cloud infrastructure, application features, and supporting technology that underly CGAP, the Clinical Genome Analysis Platform."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/koray-kirli-0.md b/_people/koray-kirli-0.md
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/koray-kirli-0">Koray Kirli</a>
 name: Koray Kirli
 subtitle: Data Curator  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Data Curator (2016-2020), 4D Nucleome DCIC, Technical Coordinator, GHGA"
+professional_title: "PhD in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology → Technical Coordinator, The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/koray-kirli-0.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 start_date: 2016-01-01
-end_date: 2022-01-01
+end_date: 2020-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/luisa-mercado.md b/_people/luisa-mercado.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/luisa-mercado">Luisa Mercado</a>
 name: Luisa Mercado
 subtitle: Data Curator  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "Assistant Data Curator, 4DN Nucleome DCIC (2018-2021), Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University"
+professional_title: "Webster University → Master’s student, Simon Fraser University → Bioinformatics Specialist, University of British Columbia"
 description: "Luisa completed her B.S in Computational Biology at Webster University in Spring 2018. She is working as an Assistant Data Curator for the 4D Nucleome Project."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/mattia-forcato.md b/_people/mattia-forcato.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/mattia-forcato">Mattia Forcato</a>
 name: Mattia Forcato
 subtitle: Visiting Scholar  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Visiting Scholars"
-professional_title: "PhD student, Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia → Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia"
+professional_title: "PhD student, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia → Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia"
 description: "Mattia was a postdoc at the Center for Genome Research, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He worked on Hi-C data for higher-order chromatin interactions."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/maxwell-sherman.md b/_people/maxwell-sherman.md
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/maxwell-sherman">Maxwell Sherman</a>
 name: Maxwell Sherman
 subtitle: Programmer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "PhD Student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT), Scientific Programmer (2016-2019), PhD Student, Computer Science and Aritificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
+professional_title: "Applied Mathematics, Brown; MPhil, University of Cambridge → PhD Student, EECS, MIT"
 description: "Max holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. He is now a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT where he works on ultra-efficient algorithms for assaying genomic variation in very large genome sequencing cohorts such as the UK Biobank. He previously worked as a scientific programmer in the Park Lab developing tools for single-cell whole genome sequencing analysis."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/maxwell-sherman.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 start_date: 2016-01-01
-end_date: 2018-01-01
+end_date: 2019-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/onur-baloglu.md b/_people/onur-baloglu.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/onur-baloglu">Onur Baloglu</a>
 name: Onur Baloglu
 subtitle: Visiting Scholar  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Visiting Scholars"
-professional_title: "Undergraduate, Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara → PhD Candidate, METU Ankara"
+professional_title: "Undergraduate, Middle Eastern Technical University METU, Ankara → PhD Candidate, METU Ankara"
 description: "Onur is a student intern at the4D NucleomeData Coordination and Integration Centerled by Park Lab at DBMI.He is currently a PhD candidate and reseach assistant at the Biology Department of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, TURKEY. His ongoing research topic is \" Combination and Interpratation of Different Kind of Human and Chimp Brain Data Sets\"."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/phil-grayson.md b/_people/phil-grayson.md
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
-person_title: <a href="/people/phil-grayson">Dr. Phil Grayson</a>
-name: Dr. Phil Grayson
+person_title: <a href="/people/phil-grayson">Phil Grayson</a>
+name: Phil Grayson
 subtitle: Bioinformatics Scientist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 position_category: "Alumni: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers"
-professional_title: "PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Bioinformatics Scientist (2021-2022)"
+professional_title: "PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard → Bioinformatics Scientist, Beam Therapeutics"
 description: "Phil is currently working as a Research Associate – Biologist on the Clinical Genome Analysis Platform (CGAP) aiding in the development and implementation of automated pipelines for annotation of human genomic data within the Amazon Cloud environment.He completed his PhD in 2019 at Harvard University, where he studied the developmental genomics of large flightless birds with Dr. Scott Edwards in OEB and as a Visiting Scholar with Dr. Clifford Tabin at the Harvard Medical School.  Before starting at CGAP, Phil returned home to Winnipeg, Canada to compete a Postdoctoral Fellowship on the genomics of sex determination in the invasive sea lamprey.  During this time, he developed the SexFindR workflow for identification of sex-linked regions from population genomic data."
 layout: person
 status: "Alumni"
diff --git a/_people/psalm-haseley.md b/_people/psalm-haseley.md
diff --git a/_people/richard-kim.md b/_people/richard-kim.md
diff --git a/_people/sarah-reiff.md b/_people/sarah-reiff.md
diff --git a/_people/scott-ouellette.md b/_people/scott-ouellette.md
diff --git a/_people/tae-hee-clara-kim.md b/_people/tae-hee-clara-kim.md
diff --git a/_people/victor-mao.md b/_people/victor-mao.md
diff --git a/_people/vidhu-choudhary.md b/_people/vidhu-choudhary.md
diff --git a/_people/weil-lai.md b/_people/weil-lai.md
