Meet Our Team

Researchers working in the Kostka Lab

Principal Investigator

Dennis Kostka, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Computational & Systems Biology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Current Lab Members

Elizabeth Gilfeather

Ph.D. Student
Integrative Systems Biology Program
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Soahum Bagchi, M.D.

M.S. Student
Computational Biomedicine & Biotechnology Program
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Roshan Paul

M.S. Student
Computational Biomedicine & Biotechnology Program
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Vidya Ganapathy

B.S. Student, Undergraduate Researcher
Computational Biology Bachelor Program
University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information Sciences

Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Scholars

Andrew Clugston; Jan 2021 – Sep 2021
Maziyar Baran Poyan; Oct 2017 – Dec 2018
Emmanuel Sapin; Jan 2017 – Aug 2018
Praveen K Raj-Kumar; Sep 2014 – Jun 2017

Graduate Students

Mark Ebeid; Mar 2022 – Aug 2025
Qianqian Liang; Apr 2018 – Aug 2024
Hannah Schriever; Feb 2020 – Aug 2023
Ramya Mallela; Jan 2017 – Aug 2018
Andrew Clugston; Jan 2016 – Dec 2020

Masters Students

Undergraduate Researchers

Gabrielle Larosa; Aug 2018 – Dec 2018
Maya Lemmon-Kishi; Nov 2017 – Aug 2018
Sai C Talipineni; Sep 2017 – Jul 2018

Summer Students

Mia Eldaher; May 2025 – Jul 2025
M. Alvarado-Gonzales; May 2021 – Jul 2021
Kiersten Campbell; May 2019 – Jul 2019
Gabrielle Larosa; May 2018 – Jul 2018
Connor Higgins; May 2017 – Jul 2017
Liu Cao; Jul 2017 – Aug 2017