Christopher Smillie, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chris received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while working in the lab of Eric Alm. He went on to do his postdoctoral research with Aviv Regev at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Adarsh Kumbhari, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate

Adarsh is developing mathematical models and computational tools to identify interactions between the microbiome, human tissues, and disease. Originally born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Adarsh has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sydney. Outside of research, his hobbies include TV (especially The Simpsons), hiking, and being a coffee snob.

Vy Tran, B.S.
Associate Computational Biologist

Vy received her B.S in Computer Science at Minerva Schools in 2021. During her undergraduate research, she used machine learning tools to solve a range of biomedical problems related to disease diagnosis and prognosis. In the Smillie lab, Vy is interested in using multi-modal measurements of human genetics, gene expression, and the human microbiome to gain deeper insights into host-microbe interactions.

Shivam Gandhi, B.S.
Associate Computational Biologist

Thomas Cheng
Graduate Student (Harvard-MIT HST)

Thomas is a student in the Harvard-MIT HST program. Prior to arriving in Boston, he led the UK branch of the Smillie Lab at Imperial College. His goal is to develop new technologies to understand inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) pathogenesis, and to translate these discoveries to targeted, accessible, and affordable therapies.

Ema Burgos Robles
Graduate Student (MIT CSB)

Ema is a student in the MIT CSB PhD program. Prior to arriving in Boston, he was a student at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ohad Lewin-Epstein
Postdoctoral Associate

Ohad is a new postdoc who will be joining in November, 2022. He did his PhD at Tel Aviv University with Dr. Lilach Hadany.