Our Team
Principal Investigator
Joseph D. Romano, PhD, MPhil, MA
Assistant Professor of Informatics and Pharmacology
Dr. Romano is a translational bioinformatician with expertise in AI and machine learning, biomedical knowledge representation, multimodal data integration, and environmental toxicology. He earned PhD, MPhil, and MA degrees in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University before completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Jason Moore. At Penn, he serves as Associate Director of Biomedical Informatics Education, Associate Director of the Environmental Health Informatics Core, and a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics.
Research Staff
Tom Pan, MS
Data Scientist
Tom is a data scientist with expertise in machine learning and structural biology. He will be beginning his doctoral studies at Duke University in Fall 2025.
Graduate Students
Chloé Paris, MS
PhD Candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
Research focus: Environmental epidemiology, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, machine learning.
Oresta Hewryk
PhD Candidate in Biology
Research focus: Phytotherapies, biomedical ontologies, machine learning.
Tram Anh Nguyễn
PhD Candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
Research focus: Multimodal data integration, graph machine learning, uterine fibroids.
Wendy Su
PhD Candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
Research focus: Endometriosis, Omics-based risk prediction, natural language processing.
Ananya Rajagopalan
PhD Student in Genomics and Computational Biology (co-advised by Shefali Setia-Verma)
Research focus: Maternal health, integrating clinical and genetic data, machine learning.
Nia Abdurezak
PhD Student in Genomics and Computational Biology
Research focus: Informatics of autoimmune disease, drug adverse events, machine learning.