Christiana (Yijia) Liu is a Computational Associate I at the Neale lab. She recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA/MHS in Genetic Epidemiology, Cognitive Science, and Public Health Studies. Her research interests lie in applying statistical methods to study genetic variants and neurodevelopmental diseases. In my free time, she enjoys playing musical instruments, […]
Kaitlin (Kait) Pennels is a Senior Project Coordinator at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She coordinates the Genetics of Eating Disorder study through the Broad Program in Brain Health. Her work focuses on fostering international collaborations, research compliance, direct-to-participant recruitment, and data generation. Kait also works on coordinating large international collaborations like the […]
Jared is a resident physician scientist specializing in clinical pathology at Mass General Brigham. His graduate work involved understanding how the human disease risk locus, SVEP1, relates to disease using experimental and genetic techniques. He is interested in using human genomic and molecular trait data to understand common disease mechanisms. […]
Dr. Arsalan Hassan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in the Huang and Neale labs, specializing in the genetics of psychiatric disorders. He earned his PhD in Pharmacogenomics from the University of Peshawar, where his research focused on genetic and clinical factors associated with treatment resistance in schizophrenia. During […]
Iris is a Software Engineer as part of the Hail team at the Broad Institute. Iris received a Bachelors degree from Northeastern University in 2021. […]
Edmund is a Senior Software Engineer as part of the Hail team at the Broad Institute. Edmund received a Masters degree in Engineering at the Imperial College in 2014. […]
Austin Argentieri is a Research Fellow in the labs of Mark Daly and Benjamin Neale. Prior to joining ATGU, Austin completed his PhD and postdoctoral research at the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford working with Cornelia van Duijn. Austin’s research is focused on large-scale analyses to understand the genetic, biological, and environmental […]
Evan is a postdoctoral research fellow co-advised by Drs. Benjamin Neale and Jordan Smoller. Prior to joining ATGU, he completed a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a concentration in quantitative psychology at the University of Virginia, and a clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Evan’s dissertation examined gene-environment interplay across typical cognitive development. His postdoctoral […]
Connor is a Computational Associate I in the Neale Lab. He is interested in studying the impact of genetics on complex human traits, behavior, and disease through the analysis of genomic data. He graduated from Harvard College in 2023 with a BA in Applied Mathematics and Biology. […]
Grant is a Computational Associate II in the Neale Lab. He is interested in leveraging numerical and statistical methods to estimate genetic contributions to psychological traits. He graduated from Northeastern University in 2022 with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science. […]
