Fionna Kennedy

Fionna Kennedy

Fionna joined the Kumar lab as a research assistant in August 2024. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience & Behavior from Mount Holyoke College. Fionna is particularly interested in the neural circuitry underlying behavior and how alteration to those...
Lucia Zhang

Lucia Zhang

Lucia is an undergraduate student studying Quantitative Biology and Philosophy, Politics, and Law at the University of Southern California. In the lab, she is hoping to uncover the genetic pathways behind fecal boli production and its relationship to emotionality...
Madison Raza

Madison Raza

Madison is a data analyst who joined the lab in September 2023. She finished her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 2023 under Dr. Andre Khalil at the University of Maine, Orono. While at UMaine she worked on identification of cancerous mammograms through mathematical...
Cayson Hamilton

Cayson Hamilton

Hey, I’m Cayson! I’m from Highland, Utah. I’m attending Brigham Young University in Utah and I’m the summer student in the Kumar Lab! I’m majoring in Computer Science with an emphasis in Bioinformatics, as well as minoring in Physics and...
Jake Beierle (Postdoctoral Associate)

Jake Beierle (Postdoctoral Associate)

I’m very excited to be the newest member of the Kumar lab, joining as a Postdoctoral Associate in November 2022. During my Ph.D. I studied under Dr. Camron Bryant at Boston University’s Pharmacology department working to elucidate the genetic basis for divergent...
Anshul Choudhary

Anshul Choudhary

As a computational scientist, Anshul is working at the intersection of genomics, machine learning and nonlinear dynamics in advancing data-driven scientific discovery. He earned his doctorate in physics focusing on the mathematical modeling of dynamical systems...