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News from CCMB

Fall 2025 Graduate Student Research Symposium

During CCMB's Fall 2025 Graduate Research Symposium this week, four senior PhD students gave presentations on their current research projects to fellow students and CCMB faculty, with topics ranging from resistance to anti-malarial drugs to introgression in archaic humans.
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Brown CS PhD student Tassallah Amina Abdullahi has received the Best Social Impact Paper award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), one of the premier international conferences in natural language processing
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Ying Ma, the Edens Family Assistant Professor of Healthcare Communications and Technology and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, will address genomic challenges using computational methods in her upcoming research supported by three recent grants from the NSF and NIH.
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News from DSI

Faces of DSI: A minute with Sohini Ramachandran

Get to know Sohini Ramachandran, Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and Data Science, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of Undergraduate Studies at DSI.
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Ritambhara Singh, an Associate Professor of Data Science and Computer Science and CCMB Faculty Member, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant.
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CCMB graduate student Cecile Meier-Scherling is tackling the computational challenges of drug-resistant malaria with the one of the world’s fastest supercomputers after receiving the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.
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2025 CCMB Graduating Student Spotlights

CCMB is home to undergraduate and doctoral academic programs, each with dynamic and inspiring students. Hear from some of our graduating students and learn about their journeys at Brown.
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Nature Human Behavior

Women shaping behavioural science

In the month of International Women’s Day, Nature Human Behavior asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. They highlight well-known names and rising stars. Some of them have studied gender equality, and all have made tremendous efforts towards achieving it.
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News from DSI

A minute with Ying Ma

Get to know Ying Ma, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Core Faculty at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB).
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Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize continued excellence in teaching, and this year, Brown CS and Data Science Institute faculty member Ritambhara Singh has received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for a junior faculty member from the physical or life sciences.
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Congratulations to CCMB’s Ritambhara Singh (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science), Jeff Bailey (Associate Professor of Translational Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and David Rand (Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, Chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology)!
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Twenty Years of CCMB

For twenty years, the Center for Computational Molecular Biology has been furthering computational, biological, and bioinformatical research.
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CCMB presents at ISMB

CCMB Ph.D. student Julian Stamp, a member of the Crawford Lab, gave a talk at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Lyon, France, in July.
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News from SPH

Biostatistics New Faculty - Ying Ma, Ph.D.

Brown University's School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics is pleased to welcome one of our newest faculty members, Ying Ma, Ph.D. as Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, effective August 1, 2023. Ma is a member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) as well as Center for Statistical Sciences (CSS).
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About one year ago, DSI announced a new interim director, Sohini Ramachandran. Today, we are happy to announce that Professor Ramachandran is officially Director of the Data Science Initiative. Below is Provost Locke's email announcement. 
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News from CCMB

Congratulations Hsin-Ta!

Hsin-Ta Wu successfully defended his thesis on Tuesday, May 10th to become our second awarded Doctorate in the Computational Biology Ph.D. program.
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