Our People

Principal Investigator

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Wouter-Jan Rappel

Distinguished research scientist

Wouter-Jan Rappel is a Distinguised Research Scientist in the Physics department at UC San Diego. His research focuses on understanding complex biological and biomedical systems using theoretical and computational approaches. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and has been at UCSD since 1997.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego
  • M.S., Physics, University of Leiden
  • B.S., Physics, University of Leiden
rappel@physics.ucsd.edu

Current Members

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sebastian Echeverria Alar

Sebastian Echeverria Alar

Postdoctoral researcher

Cardiac dynamics and cellular organization

seecheverriaalar@ucsd.edu

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani

Postdoctoral researcher

Machine learning in biology

mmulimani@ucsd.edu

Graduate Students

Yi-Chiech Lai

Yi-Chiech Lai

Graduate student

Multi-cellular organization

y9lia@physics.ucsd.edu

Michael Reiss

Michael Reiss

Graduate student

Repeating pattern analysis and cardiac dynamics

m1reiss@ucsd.edu
Sanchi Saitia

Sanchi Saitia

Graduate student

Experimental cell dynamics

ssaita@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Students

Alex Sumarli

Alex Sumarli

Undergraduate student

Undergraduate researcher

Alumni

Yuansheng Cao

Assistant prof at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Man-Ho (Marco) Tang

Applied Scientist, Amazon

Timothy Tyree

Postdoctoral researcher at Cortical Systems & Behavior Laboratory UCSD

Aravind Karanam

Postdoctoral researcher at Rochester Institute of technology

Arabinda Behera

Postdoctoral fellow at IMC (Institute of Mathematical sciences, Chennai)

Dorsa Elmi

University lecturer at SDSU

Richa Karmakar

Assistant Professor at IIT Madras

Brian Camley

Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Univeristy

Elisabeth Ghabache

Scientist, Illumina

Daniel Lombardo

Senior Data Scientist, Sony

David Vidmar

Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Tempus Labs

Haicen Yue

Assistant Professor at University of Vermont

Inbal Hecht

Optibus, Inc.

Danying Shao

R&D Engineer, Penn State University

Albert Bae

Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark University

Charin Modchang

Associate Professor, Mahidol University

Bo Hu

Assistant Professor at George Mason University

Wen Chen

Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University

Monica Skoge

Julien Kockelkoren

Head of Quant Macro at Cubist Systematic Strategies

Juan Acebron

Associate Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Hervé Henry

Chargé de Reserche, Ecole Polytechnique

Former undergraduate members

  • Kayla Chun
  • Ritam Das
  • Ritam Das
  • Allecia Dodd-Noble
  • Jordan Ekaidat
  • Andrea Hannasch
  • David He
  • Huanyu Kuo
  • Frank Ma
  • Nam Nguyen
  • Jason Oh
  • Bita Sadeghi
  • Lydia Saucedo
  • Arun Sugumar