People

Erin Molloy

       

I joined the Computer Science Department @ UMD as an Assistant Professor in July 2021, with affilitations in BEES, CBBG, and AMSC. My PhD (2020) is in Computer Science from UIUC, where I was fortunate to be advised by Tandy Warnow and Bill Gropp. I also trained at UCLA (as a postdoc with Sriram Sankararaman) and at UW-Madison (as an undergrad/postbac with Rasmus Birn).

I am lucky to work with these amazing people:

PhD Students

Junyan Dai

Yunheng Han

 

Anton Goretsky

Co-advisor: Dr. Misha Kolmogorov

MG Hirsch

Co-advisor: Dr. Teresa Przytycka

Rachel Parsons

Valerie Wray

Wenshan Wu

Undergrad Students

Luíz Mata Lopez

Pet Support

Alice

BaiBei

Lizzie

Alumni

Rotation Students

• Tobias Rubel, UMD PhD Student Fall 2021 - Summer 2023 (NSFGRF 2023)
  
  Switched to theoretical computer science in fall 2023

Undergraduate Students

• Maddie Bonanno, BRIDGE REU 2023, visiting from Tulane University
• John Bridgers, UMD Honors Student Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
  
  Thesis: Improving the robustness of quartet-based species tree estimation methods to high levels of missing data
  Next position: Post-bac at NCBI with Dr. Teresa Przytycka and Dr. Cenk Sahinalp
• Junyan Dai, UMD Honors Student Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
  
  Thesis: Constraints make parsimony problems for CRISPR/Cas9 lineage tracing easier and harder
  Next position: PhD student in CS at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Aditya Girish, BRIDGE REU 2022, visiting from Rutgers University
  
  Next position: PhD student in Comp Bio at Cornell University
• Lola Gonzalez Lebron, BRIDGE REU 2023, visiting from University of Dayton
• Michael Suehle, UMD Honors Student Fall 2022
  
  Thesis: Fast branch length estimation under the multi-species coalescent model using triplets
  Next position: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory & MS student in CS at UMD