academic and professional title update

cassieperry · web-flow · commit 9f40f8cbfaa4 · 2025-12-02T13:40:29.000-05:00
diff --git a/_people/alexander-veit.md b/_people/alexander-veit.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/alexander-veit">Alexander Veit</a>
 name: Alexander Veit
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Research Associate, PhD in Mathematics, University of Zurich"
+professional_title: "Research Associate"
 academic_title: "PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Zurich"
 description: "Alexander Veit is part of the 4D Nucleome Data Coordination and Integration Center where he develops visualization tools for genomic data. Prior to joining Harvard, Alexander was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig) and the University of Zurich where he worked on numerical methods for partial differential equations. Before that, he completed his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Zurich. His research involved the efficient approximation of time-domain boundary integral equations."
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diff --git a/_people/cassie-perry.md b/_people/cassie-perry.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/cassie-perry">Cassie Perry</a>
 name: Cassie Perry
 subtitle: Project Coordinator  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 professional_title: "Project Coordinator"
-academic_title: "BS in Neurobiology, BA in English, UW-Madison"
+academic_title: "BS in Neurobiology and English, UW-Madison"
 description: "Cassie graduated from UW-Madison in 2022 with a Bachelor's degree in Neurobiology and English and a minor in Digital Studies. While completing her undergraduate degree, Cassie worked in a research lab at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) studying the role of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway in heart regeneration."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/charlotte-zhang.md b/_people/charlotte-zhang.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/charlotte-zhang">Charlotte Zhang</a>
 name: Charlotte Zhang
 subtitle: Associate Computational Biologist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 professional_title: "Associate Computational Biologist"
+academic_title: "BS in Computer Science and French, University of Virginia"
 description: "Charlotte graduated from the University of Virginia in 2025 with a double major in Computer Science and French. At UVA, she conducted biology and neuroscience research in the Liu Lab and received the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award for her project on the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells in a glaucoma mice model. She studied abroad in Paris, working with Dr. Judith Miné-Hattab and the Functional Imaging of Nuclear Architecture (FIONA) team at the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology at Sorbonne Université. There, she conducted an independent study investigating histone H2B dynamics following the induction of double-strand breaks. Charlotte is currently an Associate Computational Biologist in the Park Lab."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/christophe-boetto.md b/_people/christophe-boetto.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/christophe-boetto">Christophe Boetto</a>
 name: Christophe Boetto
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, Institut Pasteur (Université de Paris Cité)"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
+academic_title: "PhD, Institut Pasteur (Université de Paris Cité)"
 description: "Christophe received his PhD from the Institut Pasteur (Université de Paris Cité) in the department of computational biology in Paris, France. During his doctoral studies he developed a statistical framework, called MANOCCA, to detect an effect from a genetic or environmental factor on the correlations of a multivariate outcome. Now, as a postdoctoral research fellow at HMS in Park lab, he is working on mutational signatures and variant calling. His research is focused on improving mathematical and computational methodology to better model OMICs data."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/corinne-sexton.md b/_people/corinne-sexton.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/corinne-sexton">Corinne Sexton</a>
 name: Corinne Sexton
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, University of Nevada Las Vegas"
+academic_title: "PhD, University of Nevada Las Vegas"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 description: "Corinne graduated with her PhD in 2023 working with Dr. Mira Han at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Her work focused mainly on the characterizing the expression of transposable elements in embryonic stem cells as well as developing methods for multi-omic data integration. In the Park Lab, she is focusing on the role of repetitive elements related to cancer predisposition syndromes."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/elizabeth-hye-jung-chun.md b/_people/elizabeth-hye-jung-chun.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/elizabeth-hye-jung-chun">Elizabeth (Hye-Jung) Chun</a>
 name: Elizabeth (Hye-Jung) Chun
 subtitle: Research Associate  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia, Research Associate in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School"
+professional_title: "Research Associate in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School"
 academic_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics, University of British Columbia"
 description: "Elizabeth received her PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia, Canada. As part of the NIH NCI’s Therapeutically Applicable Research that Generates Effective Therapy (TARGET) initiative, Elizabeth’s doctoral research focused on molecular characterization of pediatric malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) through integrative analyses of whole genome and transcriptome sequencing, and genome-wide DNA methylation and histone modification profiles (Chun et al. (2016) Cancer Cell; Chun et al. (2019) Cell Reports). Elizabeth continued her research in Dr. Marco Marra’s lab as a postdoctoral research fellow, to identify genetic and epigenetic alterations in MRTs using long-read sequencing data. Prior to her graduate training, Elizabeth worked as a computational biologist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, performing data analyses and coordinating research activities for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Development of Highly active Anti-Leukemia stem cell Therapy project at the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM-HALT). Elizabeth joined the Park Lab in June 2022. In the Park Lab, Elizabeth is continuing her research in computational cancer genomics and contributing her work to the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem projects."
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diff --git a/_people/gregory-brunette.md b/_people/gregory-brunette.md
@@ -10,6 +10,4 @@ status: "Active Member"
 image: ./img/gregory-brunette.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 position_category: Students
-start_date: 2020-01-01
-end_date: 2020-01-01
 ---
diff --git a/_people/han-qu.md b/_people/han-qu.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/han-qu">Han (Flora) Qu</a>
 name: Han (Flora) Qu
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, University of California, Riverside"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 academic_title: "PhD, University of California, Riverside"
 description: "Han Qu earned her PhD degree under the supervision of Dr. Zhenyu Jia in the Department of Botany & Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. During her doctoral studies, Han’s research was centered around the development of algorithms for cost-effective chromosome-scale haplotype inference, the introduction of a robust EM algorithm for analyzing binary data, and the design of a comprehensive phylogenomic framework for studying pomegranates. Currently, in the Park Lab, Han is focused on computational analysis of DNA sequencing data. Her work primarily involves the development and application of algorithms for detecting mosaic mutations and repetitive elements in the human genome."
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diff --git a/_people/hu-jin.md b/_people/hu-jin.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/hu-jin">Hu Jin</a>
 name: Hu Jin
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 academic_title: "PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"
 description: "Hu Jin received his PhD in Physics in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Jun S. Song in the Department of Physics and Center for the Physics of Living Cells at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During his doctoral training, Hu has conducted both computational physics research modeling chromatin structure and bioinformatics research studying stem cell and cancer biology. His PhD thesis focused on developing quantitative computational methods for unraveling the principles guiding nucleosome positioning. In the Park Lab, he is working on development and application of computational methods for integration of three-dimensional chromosomal interaction data with DNA mutation data."
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diff --git a/_people/julia-markowski.md b/_people/julia-markowski.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/julia-markowski">Julia Markowski</a>
 name: Julia Markowski
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics/Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine / Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany)"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
+academic_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics/Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine / Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (Germany)"
 description: "Julia conducted her doctoral research at the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine / Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology under the supervision of Prof. Roland Schwarz, in close collaboration with Prof. Ana Pombo, and earned her PhD at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.Julia is interested in understanding chromatin organization in space and time and its effect on gene expression regulation through epigenetic mechanisms in development and disease.Her research is focused on haplotype-specific chromatin conformation, for which she developed bioinformatic algorithms for haplotype reconstruction and the generation of detailed haplotype-specific chromatin contact maps during her PhD.As a postdoctoral research fellow at HMS, Julia will continue her research on chromatin architecture as a member of the 4DN Program."
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 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/kyung-ah-woo.md b/_people/kyung-ah-woo.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/kyung-ah-woo">Kyung Ah (Kate) Woo</a>
 name: Kyung Ah (Kate) Woo
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD"
+professional_title: "Visiting Scholar"
+academic_title: "MD and PhD in Translational Medicine from Seoul National University, Korea"
 description: " "
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/lovelace-joe-luquette.md b/_people/lovelace-joe-luquette.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/lovelace-joe-luquette">L. Joe Luquette</a>
 name: L. Joe Luquette
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, HMS Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Scientific Programmer (2009-2014)"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Programmer (2009-2014)"
 academic_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard Medical School"
 description: "A graduate of Boston University, Joe comes up with cool algorithms, designs web servers, and helps out with everything else, when he is not taking algebra courses for fun."
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diff --git a/_people/michele-berselli.md b/_people/michele-berselli.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/michele-berselli">Dr. Michele Berselli</a>
 name: Dr. Michele Berselli
 subtitle: Bioinformatics Scientist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Padova, Bioinformatics Scientist"
+professional_title: "Bioinformatics Scientist"
 academic_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Padova"
 description: "Michele is currently working as part of the 4DNuclome Data Coordination and Integration Center, focusing on the development and implementation of automated pipelines and genomic workflows in the Amazon Cloud environment.He completed is Ph.D. in 2019 at University of Padova where he worked on the development of software and databases to investigate the secondary structures that form in nucleic acids. As a result he developed and implemented two novel algorithms (nessie and QPARSE) to detect degenerate sequence motifs that are involved in the formation of some classes of non-canonical structures in nucleic acids. He also contributed to the development of a web-database that provides a comprehensive evaluation of G-quadruplex structures in human viruses."
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diff --git a/_people/rahi-navelkar.md b/_people/rahi-navelkar.md
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/rahi-navelkar">Rahi Navelkar</a>
 name: Rahi Navelkar
 subtitle: Data Wrangler  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Masters in Biotechnology, Georgetown University, Data Wrangler, 4DN-DCIC"
+professional_title: "Data Wrangler, 4DN-DCIC"
 academic_title: "MS in Biotechnology, Georgetown University"
 description: ""
 layout: person
-status: "Active Member"
+status: "Alumni"
 image: ./img/rahi-navelkar.jpg
 hide_footer: true
 position_category: Staff Scientists and Software Engineers
diff --git a/_people/sangmi-sandra-lee.md b/_people/sangmi-sandra-lee.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/sangmi-sandra-lee">Sangmi (Sandra) Lee</a>
 name: Sangmi (Sandra) Lee
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 professional_title: "PhD in Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology"
-academic_title: "PhD in Systems Biology/Bioinformatics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology"
+academic_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 description: "Sangmi Lee received her PhD from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, South Korea. During her doctoral studies, her research focused on the development and application of systems biology approaches for the discovery of cancer biomarkers and drug targets tailored to personalized cancer treatment. She developed computational methods to elucidate altered cancer metabolism associated with somatic mutations and identify metabolism-based drug targets for high-risk cancer patients, employing network modeling, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Currently, as a postdoctoral fellow in the Park lab, she is broadening her research focus towards the genomic underpinnings of cancer, with a particular emphasis on circulating tumor DNA, leveraging her extensive expertise in bioinformatics, computational modeling, optimization techniques, and machine learning."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/suhas-rao.md b/_people/suhas-rao.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/suhas-rao">Suhas Rao</a>
 name: Suhas Rao
 subtitle: Associate Computational Biologist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 professional_title: "Associate Computational Biologist"
-academic_title: "BA Computer Science, BA Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley"
+academic_title: "BA Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley"
 description: "Suhas received his bachelor's in Computer Science and Applied Math from UC Berkeley in 2020, where he developed lineage tracing algorithms for single-cell RNA-seq data in the Yosef Lab. Afterwards, he worked as a quant developer at a hi-freq trading firm for a few years. Most recently, he worked in the Bafna Lab at UCSD on analyzing oncogene amplification mechanisms (ecDNA, BFB) using long-read WGS data."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/tim-guan.md b/_people/tim-guan.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
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 person_title: <a href="/people/tim-guan">Tim Guan</a>
 name: Tim Guan
-subtitle: Summer Intern / Undergraduate Student  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "Harvard, Harvard College Research Program Award: <i>Deep learning genomics for isoform splicing across cell type and genetic variants</i>"
+subtitle: Summer Intern (2025) / Undergraduate Student  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
+professional_title: "Summer Intern / Undergraduate Student"
+academic_title: "Harvard, Harvard College Research Program Award: <i>Deep learning genomics for isoform splicing across cell type and genetic variants</i>"
 description: ""
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/vinay-viswanadham.md b/_people/vinay-viswanadham.md
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/vinay-viswanadham">Vinay Viswanadham</a>
 name: Vinay Viswanadham
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)"
-academic_title: "PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Harvard Medical School"
+professional_title: "PhD, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG), Harvard Medical School"
+academic_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 description: "Vinay earned his bachelor’s degrees in bioengineering and in molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, where he conducted research in tissue engineering and synthetic and systems biology. He obtained his master’s degree in immunology at Harvard Medical School, completing his thesis under the supervision of Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD. For his thesis research, Vinay utilized computational techniques to dissect epigenetic mechanisms driving immature B-cell differentiation, and he has extended such methods to answer broader questions about B- and T-cell subset formation."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/william-feng.md b/_people/william-feng.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ person_title: <a href="/people/william-feng">William Feng</a>
 name: William Feng
 subtitle: Associate Computational Biologist  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
 professional_title: "Associate Computational Biologist"
-academic_title: "BS in Biotechnology, BS in Computer Science, Rutgers University"
+academic_title: "BS in Biotechnology and Computer Science, Rutgers University"
 description: "William Feng graduated from Rutgers University in 2023 with a double major in biotechnology and computer science. During his time as an undergraduate student, he worked with Dr. Chang S. Chan investigating the effects of mutations on TP53 alternative splicing and overall pathogenicity. He is currently an Associate Computational Biologist at the Park Lab, continuing his work on cancer genomics."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
diff --git a/_people/william-ronchetti.md b/_people/william-ronchetti.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/william-ronchetti">William Ronchetti</a>
 name: William Ronchetti
 subtitle: Software Engineer  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "B.A. and M.Eng in Computer Science, Cornell University"
+professional_title: "Backend Engineer"
 academic_title: "M.Eng in Computer Science, BA Computer Science, Cornell University"
 description: "Will completed both a B.A. and an M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell University in December 2019 and then joined Duke University's ECE department as a Research Associate. While there, Will worked extensively on developing and improving course materials for Duke's C Programming Specialization and for a new advanced C++ course. Will then joined the Park Research Lab as a Back-End Software Developer in August 2019 and will be assisting the team with a variety of software tasks related to both back-end development and DevOps."
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diff --git a/_people/yuwei-zhang.md b/_people/yuwei-zhang.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 person_title: <a href="/people/yuwei-zhang">Yuwei Zhang</a>
 name: Yuwei Zhang
 subtitle: Research Fellow  # Set subtitle to position_link_text
-professional_title: "PhD, City University of Hong Kong"
+academic_title: "PhD, City University of Hong Kong"
+professional_title: "Postdoctoral Fellow"
 description: "Yuwei Zhang obtained her PhD degree in 2022, under the supervision of Professor Shuai Cheng Li in the Department of Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong. During her doctoral training, Yuwei focused on designing graph-based algorithms for identifying the hierarchical structure of TADs or TAD-like domains. In the Park Lab, she is working on computational analysis of genome and epigenome sequencing data to understand mosaic mutations as well as the integration of chromosomal interaction data for genomic variant interpretation."
 layout: person
 status: "Active Member"
