People

Erin Molloy

       

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science (CS) @ UMD, with affilitations in BEES, CBBG, and AMSC. My PhD is in CS 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). My Bachelor's degree is in Physics from the University of Chicago.

PhD Students

Junyan Dai

 

Yunzhuo Liu

Rachel Parsons

NCI-UMD Partership Program

Gourab Saha

Wenshan Wu

 
NCI-UMD Partership Program

Undergrad Students

Owen Chen

CAAR REU

James Lu

CAAR REU

Affiliated PhD Students @ NIH

Anton Goretsky

Advisor: Dr. Misha Kolmogorov

MG Hirsch

Advisor: Dr. Teresa Przytycka

Hamza Iseric

Advisor: Dr. Cenk Sahinalp

Pet Support

Alice

BaiBei

Lizzie

Alumni

PhD Students

• Yunheng Han, PhD in Computer Science, Fall 2021 - Summer 2025
  
  Thesis: Accurate and scalable phylogeny estimation via graph cuts
  Last seen: Post-doc at University of Florida, with Dr. Christina Boucher

MS Students

• Yunzhuo Liu, MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Fall 2024 - Spring 2026
  Last seen: PhD student in CS at UMD

Rotation Students

• Valerie Wray, AMSC graduate progam, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
• Tobias Rubel, CS graduate program, Fall 2021 - Summer 2023 (NSFGRF 2023)

Undergrad Honors Students

• John Bridgers, Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
  
  Thesis: Improving the robustness of quartet-based species tree estimation methods to high levels of missing data
  Last seen: PhD Student in CS at Princeton University
• Junyan Dai, Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
  
  Thesis: Leveraging Constraints plus dynamic programming for the large dollo parsimony problem
  Last seen: PhD student in CS at UMD
• Parth Dua, Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
  
  Thesis: Evaluating the Accuracy of ASTRAL-Pro's Algorithm for Tagging and Rooting Gene Trees
  Last seen: MS student in CS at ULCA
• Luiz Mata Lopez, Fall 2024 - Fall 2025
  
  Thesis: Are copy number losses friends or foes to single-cell tumor phylogenetics?
  Last seen: PhD Student in CS at Johns Hopkins University
• Michael Suehle, Fall 2022
  
  Thesis: Fast branch length estimation under the multi-species coalescent model using triplets
  Last seen: MS student in CS at UMD & Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Summer REU Students

• Maddie Bonanno, BRIDGE REU, Summer 2023, visiting from Tulane University
  
  Last seen: PhD student in Comp Bio at UNC Chapel Hill
• Aditya Girish, BRIDGE REU, Summer 2022, visiting from Rutgers University
  
  Last seen: PhD student in Comp Bio at Cornell University
• Lola Gonzalez Lebron, BRIDGE REU, Summer 2023, visiting from University of Dayton
• Luiz Mata Lopez, BRIDGE REU, Summer 2022, visiting from Montgomery College
  
  Last seen: PhD student in CS at Johns Hopkins University (duplicated, later joined UMD honors program)