Two trainees from the Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science have been awarded the 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Established in 1952, the NSF GRFP supports graduate students pursuing full-time, research-based degrees in STEM fields who demonstrate potential to make significant contributions to science and engineering.
Giacomo Marino is a first-year PhD student in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (CBB) at Yale. He is advised by Andrew Loza, MD, PhD, instructor of biomedical informatics & data science, and pediatrics, and by co-advisor Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD, deputy dean for biomedical informatics and chair of the department of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on generative models that integrate genomic context and clinical trajectories.
William Hu is a PhD student in Computer Science advised by Hyunghoon (Hoon) Cho, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical informatics & data science, and computer science at Yale School of Medicine, and Katerina Sotiraki, PhD, assistant professor of computer science at Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. His research focuses on developing cryptographic tools to securely train statistical models on sensitive biomedical data, drawing on his advisors' expertise in privacy-preserving computation and biomedical data science.