Mentor: Shamil Sunyaev, Ph.D.
Sumaiya Nazeen is a postdoctoral research fellow with a joint appointment between Sunyaev and Khurana labs. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Bonnie Berger. Her research focuses on the development of computational and statistical models for the interpretation of the genetic foundation of complex human diseases. Her current projects include network-based rare variant analysis, patient stratification, and biomarker discovery for Lewy body pathologies.