People

Avillach Lab Members

Members of the Avillach Lab, including the current team and alumni.

Principal Investigator

Paul Avillach, MD, PhD

paul_avillach@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Avillach is Associate Professor in Pediatrics & Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital. He received his MD in Public Health from University of Bordeaux, France and PhD in Biomedical Informatics from University of...

Project Manager

Jessica Carpenter Lyons

jessica_lyons@hms.harvard.edu

Senior Project Manager

Instructor

Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, PhD

alba_gutierrez@hms.harvard.edu

Instructor in Biomedical Informatics

Ph.D. in Biomedicine. Working on ASD.

Visiting Scholars

Joany Zachariasse

Program, Product & Research Engagement Team

Lesly Balanzar Torres

Project Manager

Emily Hughes, MS

Bioinformatics Systems Product Manager

Kimberly Huynh, MPH

Kimberly_Huynh@hms.harvard.edu

Senior Program Manager

Software Engineers and Programmers

Danielle Pillion

Software Engineering Manager

Thomas N. DeSain

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Ryan Amari

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

James Peck

Full Stack Software Engineer

Sharra Neely

Full Stack Software Engineer

Samantha Piatt

Research Software Developer II

Luke Sikina

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

George Colon

Full Stack Software Engineer

Michael Corace

Bioinformatics Data Scientist

Alumni

Andre Rosa

andre_rosa@hms.harvard.edu

Senior Java Web Developer

Aleksandr Nikitin

aleksandr.nikitin@childrens.harvard.edu

Application Development Specialist

Álvaro Hernández

Visiting Graduate Student

Ambia Ahmed

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Andrew J Guidetti

andrew_guidetti@hms.harvard.edu

Senior DevOps Engineer

Andrzej Cuper

ETL Developer

Anil Degala

Director of Data Engineering, Data Integrations and Data Architecture

Antoine Neuraz, MD, MSc

antoine_neuraz@hms.harvard.edu

Research associate at Harvard Medical School

I work on large scale genotype-phenotype associations studies (GWAS, PheWAS) in the field of autism spectrum disorders.

Antoine Tisseaux

Antoine Tran, MD, MSc

antoine_tran@hms.harvard.edu

Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics

MD in Pediatrics, specializing in Epidemiology, from the University Children Hospital, CHU-Lenval, Nice (France). Working on Global Rare Disease Registry Project

Arabdha Biswas

Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics Intern

Arnaud Serret-Larmande

Arnaud_Serret-Larmande@hms.harvard.edu

Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics

Atul Sanagar

Software Developer

Bertrand Moal

Bertrand Moal holds an MD in public health and epidemiology from the University of Bordeaux and a PhD in biomechanics from Arts et Métiers ParisTech.

Bria Morgan

bria_morgan@hms.harvard.edu

Software Developer

Brigitta Gough

brigitta_gough@hms.harvard.edu

Research and Administrative Assistant

Burt Beckwith

Senior Full Stack Web Developer

Carlos De Niz

Carlos_DeNiz@hms.harvard.edu

Research Fellow in Biomedical Informatics

MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University

Working on analysis of variant data of patients with Autism

Carlos Sáez

carlos_saez@hms.harvard.edu

Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Researcher at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

PhD in Technologies for Health and Well-Being, MsC in Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and Digital Imaging. He is researcher at the Biomedical Data Science Lab (ITACA Institute) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) since 2006. His...

Cartik K Saravanamuthu, MS, MS, PhD

cartik_saravanamuthu@hms.harvard.edu

Data Scientist in Biomedical Informatics

MS in Biomedical Engineering. MS, PhD in Computer Engineering. Projects include: Phelan McDermid Syndrome Data Network (PMS_DN) PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome (PHTS) Cure Sickle Cell Disease (CureSCD) National Institute of Health DataSTAGE

Cassandra Perry, MS, CGC

Cassandra_Perry@hms.harvard.edu

Project Manager at Harvard Medical School (2015 - 17)

Cassandra Perry holds a Master of Science degree in genetic counseling and is a Certified Genetic Counselor.

Claire Hassen-Khodja, MD, MSc

claire_hassen-khodja@hms.harvard.edu

Visiting Research Associate at Harvard Medical School

Student Intern at Center For Biomedical Informatics MD Resident in Public Health, in France, specializing in biostatistics Research project at Avillach Lab: Phenotypic Identification of patients with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome in the Simons Simplex...