{"610594":{"#nid":"610594","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Congratulations 2018 Outstanding Bioinformatics Students","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Yuanbo Wang (PhD) and Sarthak Sharma (MS) who were recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Students in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech!\u0026nbsp; Each student received a monetary award funded by the J. Leland Jackson Endowed Fellowships Fund in Bioinformatics.\u0026nbsp; Both students were selected for demonstrated excellence in their academic studies and their Bioinformatics research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nYuanbo \u0026ldquo;Cody\u0026rdquo; Wang has been in the Bioinformatics Doctoral Program for 4 years, working with research advisor Dr. Eva K. Lee in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u0026nbsp; During this time, Cody has earned a cumulative GPA of 3.94 in a combination of Bioinformatics, Computational Sciences and Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering course work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAs a researcher and software developer in healthcare, Cody feels privileged that his work can have a significant impact on society.\u0026nbsp; Cody says he fell in love with research and development during his first project in Eva Lee\u0026rsquo;s group.\u0026nbsp; In this project, Cody designed a secure web application for physicians to query, visualize, and perform statistical summaries on Electronic Health Records (EHR) of 2.7 million projects.\u0026nbsp; Cody says, \u0026ldquo;Each part of this project was intricately connected, so putting them together required a holistic understanding of the medical data, the database, the statistics, and the visualization principles and implementation techniques.\u0026nbsp; Through the process of completing this puzzle, I worked tirelessly and overcame many difficulties.\u0026nbsp; Given the huge variety of EHR data, my thesis research aims to map free-structured texts to standardized clinical terminologies that are essential in facilitating interoperability among clinical data.\u0026nbsp; This allows computers to better recognize and extract important knowledge from these data to achieve \u0026lsquo;rapid learning\u0026rsquo; across multiple clinical sites.\u0026nbsp; I have performed machine learning analysis to predict patient outcome and identify best clinical practice.\u0026nbsp; This knowledge can be spread across sites to increase quality and timeliness of care and maximize outcome and service performance of the healthcare system.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAccording to Professor Lee, \u0026ldquo;Cody has outstanding computational and analytic training and knowledge.\u0026nbsp; His major strengths are his problem-solving capability and his passion in research and education and in his search for challenging research problems and real applications.\u0026nbsp; His broad and intensive research experience has prepared him very well for a challenging academic position.\u0026nbsp; I give him my highest endorsement for the Jackson Award for Outstanding PhD Student in Bioinformatics.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSarthak Sharma, our Outstanding MS student, maintained a 4.0 GPA in his first year of study, including five core Bioinformatics classes and three challenging electives such as Data and Visual Analytics.\u0026nbsp; Sarthak works with Dr. Alberto Stolfi, a new Assistant Professor who recently launched his research group at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; Sarthak analyzed single-cell RNAseq data.\u0026nbsp; He applied machine learning techniques for clustering and classifying similar populations of single cells based on their gene expression.\u0026nbsp; Using his excellent bioinformatics and programming skills, Sarthak\u0026rsquo;s work represents \u0026ldquo;the first use of scRNAseq to characterize the gene expression profiles of neurons in tunicates, our closest living invertebrate relatives.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Sarthak is the lead author on a paper accepted for publication in the prestigious journal, \u003Cem\u003EDevelopmental Biology\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAccording to Professor Alberto Stolfi, \u0026ldquo;I believe Sarthak\u0026rsquo;s accomplishments at Georgia Tech speak for themselves.\u0026nbsp; It is hard for me to imagine any other MSBINF student so quickly and so fundamentally elevating the research of a lab at Georgia Tech as Sarthak has in his short time here.\u0026nbsp; In addition to his research accomplishments, Sarthak is a courteous, kind, and mature student and mentoring him has been a joyous experience for me personally.\u0026nbsp; In sum, he is uniquely deserving of the 2018 J. 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