Research Scientist 

office: 220-23 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-366-1958
fax: 614-688-6600
email: ChienWei.Chiang@osumc.edu

mailing address:

250 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• Ph.D. in BioInformatics (Minor: Pharmacometrics), Indiana School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
• B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

• Machine learning/ artificial intelligence algorithm
• Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics for Drug-Drug Interaction
• Network Modeling for Genetics Regulatory Network
• Genome-wide analysis and Next generation sequence

Research Scientist 

office: 220-21 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-366-1841
fax: 614-688-6600
email: VenkatSundar.Gadepalli@osumc.edu

mailing address:

Bioinformatics Shared Resources
340-14 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• Ph.D., Integrative life sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014
• M.S., Bioinformatics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009
• Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics, University of Pune, 2007

• Data Analytics
• Building support tools and web based interactive dataportals
• Next Generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis (RNA, Exome)  
• Developing NGS pipelines

• OSU-Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research Scientist

office: Ackerman Road
phone: 614-688-9722
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Amy.Hite@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive 
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• PhD., Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, 2012
• B.S. Biosystem and Agriculture Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2004

• Next generation sequencing analysis including RNAseq, miRNAseq, exome-seq, and CHIPseq
• Ingenuity Pathway analysis
• Nanostring miRNA expression

• OSU-Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research Scientist

office: 340 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-4778
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Garrett.Kinnebrew@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.D., Indiana University, School of Medicine, 2009
• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005

Areas of Expertise:

• Metabolomics Analysis, including experimental design, metabolite identification and quantification, and pathway analysis
• Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) Analysis

Biomedical Informatics Specialist

office: 340-06 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-9634
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Patrick.Stevens@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340-06 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Bioinformatics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis 2019 (ongoing) 
• B.S., Biology, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA 2017

Research Interests:

• Understanding the chromatin interactions using Hi-C data.
• Expression quantification of single-cell RNA sequencing transcriptome data and integration of other single-cell genomic methods to predict cell subtypes
• Functional roles of RNA modifications across tissues and species
• Prediction of RNA modifications using third generation sequencing

Selected Collaborations:

• Department of microbial infection and immunity
• Department of Neurology

Biomedical Informatics Specialist

office: 340-34 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-685-6494
fax: 614-688-6600
email: Cankun.Wang@osumc.edu

mailing address:

340-34 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Plant Science, South Dakota State University, 2019
• B.S., Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2017

Areas of Expertise:

• Next generation sequencing data analysis 
• Single-cell multi-omics data analysis 
• Big data management and mining
• Web applications and software development.
  
   

Selected Collaborations:

• OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

Biomedical Informatics Consultant

office: 340-16 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-9723
fax: 614-688-6600
email: AyseSelen.Yilmaz@osumc.edu

mailing address:

250 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando 2001
• B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 1998

• Building workflows for processing variety of genomic data on cluster computing environment:
• Transcriptome, ExomeSeq and TargetedSeq, Whole Genome, ChipSeq, ATAC-Seq
• Sequencing Quality control
• Expression quantification
• Variant calling, annotation, filtering and  integrative genomics
• Pathway Enrichment Analysis

• Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology
• Division of Endocrinology
• Department of Surgery, Ohio State Comprehensive Wound Center
• Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics
• College of Veterinary Medicine
• OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

Research Scientist

office: 340-14 Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-688-9663
fax: 614-688-6600
email: yue.zhao@osumc.edu

mailing address:

Bioinformatics Shared Resources
340-14 Lincoln Tower 
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus, OH 43210

Education:

• M.S., Statistics, University of Iowa, 2017
• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2007
• B.S., Polymer Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2004

• Develop and apply statistical and computational methods for high-throughput sequencing data analysis
• Sparse linear modeling of RNA sequencing data for isoform discovery and abundance estimation
• Isoform abundance quantification with third generation sequencing

• Department of Rediation Oncology

Assistant to the Chair

location: 250F Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-685-4685
email: Megan.BeVier@osumc.edu

Megan BeVier is the Assistant to the Chair, Dr. Lang Li. Megan's responsibilities include the oversight of all communication from the Chair's office, assistance with recruiting, and organization of department front office. Megan has over 14 years of experience facilitating  and encouraging research at OSU and specializes in collaboration. Megan received her undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and has received many awards for her work and contribution to the University.

Service Line Coordinator

phone: 614-293-0074
email: Mikayla.Crell@osumc.edu
 
Mikayla joined the BMI admin team in 2017. As service line coordinator, Mikayla's main role is managing the intake of new projects and maintaining MOUs, SOWs, and PSAs for the department. She also curates the department website and promotes BMI-related events through multiple media outlets. Mikayla received her undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University in 2015.

Business Manager

location: 250D Lincoln Tower
phone: 614-366-2561
email: Michelle.Freeman@osumc.edu

Michelle joined the admin team in 2018.  Michelle’s responsibilities include:  oversight and management of complex administrative, human resource and fiscal functions; provides comprehensive financial management of a variety of funds; leads special projects across all entities.; participates in the Department Leadership Team; serves as the lead administrator in the absence of the Administrator.  Michelle worked for the University for 15 year in various departments. Michelle received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Education Program Manager

phone: 614-685-9231
email:  Gabrielle.Kokanos@osumc.edu

Gabrielle has been with the department since 2014. As Education Program Manager, she serves as the primary point of contact for all education-related activities in our department, including all BMI courses, biomedical informatics masters programs, the  online certificate program, the biomedical informatics summer internship program, and many others. She manages the hiring process for trainees, postdoctoral scientists, and visiting scholars. Gabrielle plans departmental events that are educational, operational, or research-oriented in nature, including training workshops, research seminars and journal clubs, and departmental retreats. Students wanting more information about our Department's educational initiatives should contact Gabrielle via BMI.Education@osumc.edu or visit the education page for more details.

Department Administrator

email:  Diana.Ocean@osumc.edu

Fiscal Associate

email: Jasmine.Scott@osumc.edu

James Blachly, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine

Ümit V. Çatalyürek, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Alistair Erskine, MD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chief Informatics Officer, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania

Randi Foraker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health

Jennifer Garvin, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Medicine

Gregg Gascon, PhD, CHDA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Value Analytics Clinical Data Scientist, Ohio Health Group

Kun Huang, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Assistant Dean for Data Sciences, Indiana University College of Medicine

Kamer Kaya, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Albert M. Lai, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Associate Professor, Washington University St. Louis
Chief Research Information Officer, Washington University St. Louis

Omkar Lele, MS, MBA
Adjunct Instructor
Director, Informatics Research & Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine

Marcelo A. Lopetegui Lazo, MD, MS
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jefe de Servicio and Clinical Informatician, Clínica Alemana, Santiago, Chile

Ann McAlearney, ScD
Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine

Robert McKenney, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology, College of Medicine

Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI
Adjunct Professor
Director, Institute for Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Sheldon Retchin, MD, MSPH
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine

Phyllis Teater, MBA
Adjunct Instructor
Chief Information Officer, Wexner Medical Center

Daniel Walker, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine

Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis