Current Group Members
Principal Investigator and Mentor
Research Staff Member
Deeptanshu Jha
Research Staff

- Research Interests: Epidemiological and sociological modeling using social multimedia
- Email: djha at mail dot sfsu dot edu
Graduate Students
Fiona Senchyna
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- B.Sc. biological and biomedical science, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Research Interests: computational molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases
- Email: fsenchyna@mail.sfsu.edu
Rachel Beasley
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- B.Sc. Computer Engineering, UC Riverside 2012
- Research Interests: Bioimage analysis, information retrieval
- Email: rbeasle1 at mail dot sfsu dot edu
Jakob Dohrmann
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- Diploma in Technical Informatics and Computer Engineering, UAS Muenster, Germany, 2006
- Research Interests: Large scale data modeling, analysis and retrieval with applications in drug discovery for neglected diseases
- Email: jakobd at mail dot sfsu dot edu
Ryan Jenkins
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- B.Sc. Computer Science, San Francisco State University 2015
- Research Interests: Bioimage analysis for whole organism screening
- Email: rjenkins at mail dot sfsu dot edu
Neharika Mazumdar
Graduate Student, Computer Science

- B.E Information Technology, University of Pune, Maharashtra, India, 2014
- Research Interests: Computational epidemiology by combining genomic and social media data
- Email: nmazumda at mail dot sfsu dot edu
Tom Olson
Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

- B.Sc. Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara, 2009
- Research Interests: Cheminformatics, molecular space modeling, and drug discovery
- Email: tolson at sfsu dot edu
Jiadong (Arnold) Yu
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- Research Interests: Numerical methods for image and pattern analysis
- Email: jyu13a at sfsu dot edu
Undergraduate Students
Ezra Player
Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- Research Interests: social media analysis for substance misuse epidemiology and molecular informatics
- Email: eplayer@mail.sfsu.edu
Sawer Nixon
Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science

- Research Interests: Social media based drug epidemiology, natural language processing
- Email: snixon1 at sfsu dot edu