Meet Our Team

Anders Sejr Hansen

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT
Class of 1943 Career Development Professor
Post-doc: 2015-2019, UC Berkeley w. Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq
2010-2015: PhD, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University with Erin O'Shea
2006-2010: MChem, Chemistry, Oxford University with Chris Schofield
email: ashansen {at} mit {dot} edu
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Danuta Forbes

Lab Administrator
2021 September - present: Administrative Assistant II, School of Engineering, MIT
2016-2021, Tufts University, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
1988-1992: BA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
email: dmforbes {at} mit {dot} edu

Masahiro Nagano

Daiichi Sankyo and HFSP post-doc fellow
2024 - present: Post-doc
2018- 2023: PhD, Kyoto University with Mitinori Saitou
2010 - 2016: MD, Kyoto University
email: mnagano {at} mit {dot} edu

Varshini Ramanathan

BE graduate student
Exponent Fellowship
2023 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2019-2023: BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
email: varsh {at} mit {dot} edu

Jing (Vicky) Liu

BE graduate student
2024 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2020-2024: BSc, Bioengineering, Rice University
email: jl242 {at} mit {dot} edu

Jin (Harvey) Yang

BE Graduate Student
Mathworks Fellowship and KI Fellowship
2019  - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2016-2019: BSc, Bioengineering, Rice University

email: harvey1 {at} mit {dot} edu

ORCID

Sushanta Mahanta

Post-Doc (co-advised with Sam Peng)
2025 Nov – present: Post-doc
2018-2025: DPhil, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University, with Madhavi Krishnan
2015-2017: MSc, Physics, ETH, Zurich
2011-2015: BSc, Physics, ETH, Zurich
 
smahanta {at} mit {dot} edu
 

Miles Huseyin

NIH F32 and EMBO post-doc fellow
2020 Oct - present: Post-doc
2015-2020: DPhil, Biochemistry, University of Oxford, with Robert Klose
2011-2015: MBioChem, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford

email: mhuseyin {at} mit {dot} edu

Sarah Nemsick

BE graduate student
NSF Graduate Fellow
2020 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2016-2020: BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

email: snemsick {at} mit {dot} edu

ORCID

Coco Wu

Biology graduate student
2023 - present: PhD student, Biology, MIT (co-advised with Francisco Sánchez-Rivera)
2018-2021: BSc, Biochemistry, UCLA
email: ke_wu {at} mit {dot} edu

Jack Toppen

CSB graduate student
2023  - present: PhD student, Computational and Systems Biology, MIT
2019-2023: BSc, Systems Biology, Georgia Tech
email: toppen {at} mit {dot} edu

Jamie Drayton

BE graduate student
2022 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2017-2021: BSc, Chemical-Biological Engineering, MIT

email: jdrayton {at} mit {dot} edu

James Jusuf

BE graduate student
2023 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2017-2021: SB, Physics, Caltech

email: jjusuf {at} mit {dot} edu

Clarice Hong

MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Post-doc Fellowship and NIH F32 fellow
2023 March  - present: Post-doc
2016 - 2023: PhD, Washington University in St Louis with Barak Cohen
2012 - 2015: BSc, National University of Singapore

email: ckyhong {at} mit {dot} edu

Matteo Mazzocca

American Cancer Society (ACS) and American-Italian Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship
2023 April  - present: Post-doc
2018 - 2023: PhD, San Raffaele University, Italy with Davide Mazza
2013 - 2015: MSc, Functional Genomics, University of Trieste
2006-2009: BSc, Agricultural Science, University of Padova

email: matteom {at} mit {dot} edu

Sumin Kim

MIT Post-doc Engineering Excellence Fellowship and NIH F32 Fellow
2023 August  - present: Post-doc
2016 - 2023: PhD, University of Michigan with William Dauer and Sami Barmada
2010 - 2014: BSc, MIT

email: suminkim {at} mit {dot} edu

Sim Sakong

SNSF Post-doc fellow
2026 July  - present: Post-Doc
2019-2026 PhD, EPFL with Beat Fierz and David Suter
2017-2019: MSc in Applied Physics, University of Geneva
2015-2017: BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University
2010-2017: BSc in Physics, Seoul National University

email: ssakong {at} mit {dot} edu

Michael Quezada

Harvard MD-PhD student (co-advised with Jason Buenrostro)
2023  - present:
2017-2021 Stanford

email: mquezada {at} hms.harvard {dot} edu

Xu Yan

Harvard Msc Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics student
2025  - present:
2021-2025 Bsc Chemistry, University of Nottingham, UK

email: XuYan {at} hsph.harvard {dot} edu

Steven Solar

Harvard-MIT HST MD
2026  - present:
2018-2022 BS in BME and CS, Johns Hopkins

email: steven_solar {at} hms.harvard {dot} edu

Feiya Ou

Post-Doc
2026  - present: Post-Doc
2019-2026: PhD, Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis w. Kenneth Murphy
2015-2019: BSc, Biology, Xiamen University

email: feiyaou {at} mit {dot} edu

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Carolina Kusumanegara

MIT UROP
2026  - present:

email: cku {at} mit {dot} edu

Defne Ceyhan

CSB Graduate student
2025  - present: PhD student, Computational and Systems Biology, MIT
2021-2025: BSc, Data Analytics, The Ohio State University
email: ceyhan {at} mit {dot} edu

Paolo Sinopoli

Summer Student 2026
2022 - 2026: BSc Ohio State University

email: sinopoli [at] mit {dot} edu

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2024 Group Photo

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2023 Group Photo

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2021 Group Photo

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Alumni

Name

Isadora de Abreu

Hugo Brandão


Emma Magee

Asmita Jha

Denise MacPhail

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

Angelina Schorr

Christos Katsifis

Michele Gabriele



​Viraat Goel

​Domenic Narducci

Jacob Kæstel-Hansen

Allison Vieira

Time and Position

06/2021 - 08/2021: MSRP Summer student

02/2020 - 01/2022: Harvard Biophysics Graduate student (joint w. Leonid Mirny) and brief post-doc

06/2021 - 07/2022: Technical Associate I

06/2020 - 08/2022: Technical Associate I

02/2020 - 08/2022: Administrative Assistant

02/2020 - 04/2023: Technical Associate I

09/2020 - 06/2023: Post-doctoral Associate

06/2023 - 09/2023: MSRP Summer student

09/2022 - 08/2024: Technical Associate I

02/2020 - 05/2025: Post-doc (K99, AICF)



02/2020 - 05/2025: PhD student and LGO/Sloan MBA student

​02/2021 - 05/2025: PhD student

05/2024 - 10/2025: Post-doc Fellow (Novo-Nordisk)

01/2024 - 07/2026: Tech Associate I

Current position

Postbac at the NIH

Scientist, Illumina


Graduate student, Stanford University

Graduate student, Yale University

Retired

Graduate student, Harvard University

Bridge to PI program, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Graduate student, Brown University

Graduate student, Columbia University

Group Leader, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milano, Italy. See
Gabriele lab website.

Consultant, ZS Associates

Director, XGenomes

Machine Learning Scientist, Lila Sciences

Graduate student, Columbia University

Asmita Jha

Hugo Brandão

Emma Magee

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

Andrea Perry

Angelina Schorr

Christos Katsifis

Ava Conyer

Dominique Dang

Michele Gabriele

Viraat Goel

Domenic Narducci

Shorna Alam

Deniz Erkok

Sean Manley

Denise MacPhail

Isadora De Abreu

Daria Sels

Jacob Kæstel-Hansen

Allison Vieira