People

March 2023 Gitter lab photo. Back row (left to right): Sam, Neha, Daniel, Bryce, Ryan. Front row (left to right): Anthony, Yifan, Lisa, Sierra, Amy, David. Not pictured: Alyssa, Nistha. By David Nevala. See past photos.
Principal investigator

Anthony Gitter
Anthony is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as an investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research in the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology and Research Computing. He is an affiliate of the Data Science Institute and the Center for Genomic Science Innovation and a member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center Cancer Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Scientific Program.
Anthony received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and was a joint postdoc at Microsoft Research New England and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research group uses network modeling to connect genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data and provide a cohesive view of a biological process, with special emphasis on virology and oncology. In addition, they explore machine learning applications in biochemistry, such as computationally-guided high-throughput chemical screening and protein design.
Anthony's contact information can be found at the bottom of the page.
Graduate students

Sam Gelman
Computer Sciences graduate student
Co-advised with Phil Romero
David Merrell
Computer Sciences graduate student

Daniel McNeela
Biomedical Data Science graduate student
Co-advised with Frederic Sala

Bryce Johnson
Computer Sciences graduate student
Co-advised with Phil Romero

Yifan Deng
Computer Sciences graduate student
Undergraduate students

Neha Talluri
Computer Sciences undergraduate student
Nistha Panda
Computational Biology and Studio Arts undergraduate student
Washington University in St. Louis
Biomedical Data Science Summer Research Program
Co-advised with Mark Craven
Lisa Xu
Computer Sciences undergraduate student
Olivia Johnson
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Mathematics undergraduate student
Iowa State University
Biomedical Data Science Summer Research Program
Independent study and rotation students

Sierra Strutz
Biomedical Data Science graduate student

Ryan Kassab
Biomedical Data Science graduate student
Director's assistant

Amy Freitag
John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology