Ray's research is focused on data science and data mining, and he is particularly interested in biomedical informatics and genomics. His current dissertation research aims to develop advanced statistical learning methods to integrate high dimensional data, such as multi-omics datasets, and extract disease-relevant features in thousands of heterogeneous biological elements and predict disease status in a unified supervised multi-omics framework.

Austin Jones is a sixth-year MD-PhD candidate studying epidemiology. After completing his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013, Austin lived in rural Panama conducting community health education with the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé and the non-governmental organization, Floating Doctors. He subsequently attended Tulane University where he completed a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

I am California Certified Public Health Microbiologist (PHM) with  BS and MS degrees in Biology from Humboldt State University (HSU). At HSU, I did molecular research of Rickettsia bacteria Inticks. I also worked at the Humboldt County, Solano County, and Richmond State Microbial Disease (MDL) Public Health Laboratories as a Laboratory Technician and PHM trainee. After my PHM training, I worked at the Santa Clara Valley Water District as a Microbiologist, where I conducted various drinking water, raw water and recycled water compliance testing.