Cotton Seed

Cotton Seed is a Senior Advisor to the Hail team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to joining the Broad, he did a PhD in Mathematics at Princeton University and spent over a decade building high-performance computing systems with a focus on advanced compiler technology at Connected Components Corp, Intel, and Reservoir Labs, […]

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Katherine Tashman

Kate Tashman is an Associate Computational Biologist with the Neale Lab. She is interested in studying the genetic effects on psychiatric illness as well as neurodevelopmental disorders. She received her B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Binghamton University in 2017. […]

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Patrick Turley, PhD

Patrick is an Instructor at ATGU and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He is advised by Dr. Benjamin Neale, researching statistical methods applied to topics in the intersection of economics and genetics. He is also a core researcher of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium and an affiliated postdoc with the Behavioral and Health Genomics Center […]

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Liam Abbott

  Liam is an Associate Computational Biologist in the Neale lab. He is interested in understanding the genetics underlying human traits and disease through the application of statistical methods and computational techniques. He received an MS in Applied Statistics from the University of Michigan in 2015 and a BA in Mathematics from Williams College in 2013. […]

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Elizabeth Atkinson, PhD

Elizabeth is an Instructor in the ATGU and Affiliated Researcher at the Broad Institute, she was co-advised by Drs. Mark Daly and Ben Neale and working closely with Dr. Karestan Koenen. She did her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis followed by receiving an NIH Institutional Research and Career Development Award at Stony Brook […]

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Alex Bloemendal

Alex Bloemendal is a Machine Learning Advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard working with the DSP team and NNFC. […]

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Chia-Yen Chen

Chia-Yen Chen, Sc.D. is a postdoctoral research fellow in both the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU) and the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (PNGU) at Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is also affiliated with the Broad institute of MIT and Harvard. Mentored by Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D. and Benjamin Neale, Ph.D., Dr. Chen’s research interest […]

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Claire Churchhouse, PhD

Claire completed a doctorate in the department of Statistics at Oxford University, under the supervision of Jonathan Marchini, where her thesis work focused on statistical methods of ancestry deconvolution in admixed populations. She joined to the Broad Institute in 2012 as a postdoc in David Altshuler’s group where she developed QC methods for untargeted metabolomics […]

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