People

The Brylinski Lab team

We are a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scientists working at the frontier of biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and complex biological networks. Our expertise spans biology, chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, network science, electrical and computer engineering, high-performance computing, and translational discovery, allowing us to approach biomedical problems from molecular, computational, and systems-level perspectives.

Michal Brylinski

Michal Brylinski

Associate Professor

PhD in Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, 2006

Department of Biological Sciences · Center for Computation & Technology · Louisiana State University

Research interests span problems at the intersection of biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and complex networks, with a focus on using computational models to uncover biological mechanisms and guide therapeutic discovery.

Ye Fang

Ye Fang

Research Scientist

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2017

Center for Computation & Technology · Louisiana State University

Coming soon.

Mengmeng Liu

Mengmeng Liu

Research Scientist

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2025

Center for Computation & Technology · Louisiana State University

Research interests focus on AI-driven representation learning, generative modeling, and predictive modeling for biological and biochemical systems, particularly in cancer therapeutic response modeling and drug discovery.

Gopal Narayan Srivastava

Gopal Narayan Srivastava

Research Scientist

PhD in Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, 2026

Department of Biological Sciences · Louisiana State University

My research interests focus on developing machine learning and cheminformatics approaches for drug discovery, and microbial metabolism. I aim to build interpretable, data-driven models that connect molecular structure, biological function, and therapeutic response across microbiome and cancer-therapeutic applications.

Xialong Ni

Xialong Ni

Graduate Student

BS in Biosciences, Central South University, 2018

Department of Biological Sciences · Louisiana State University

My research interests focus on developing machine learning approaches for cancer biology, with a current focus on modeling enzymatic reactions and predicting metabolite changes to uncover new mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities.

Alison Agena

Alison Agena

Undergraduate Student

Department of Biological Sciences · Louisiana State University

Coming soon.

Rhiannon Sizer

Rhiannon Sizer

Undergraduate Student

Systems Biology Major · Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

My research interests focus on computational modeling of biological systems using machine learning and neural networks, especially mechanistic modeling of disease pathways, cellular decision-making, and predictive approaches for drug discovery.

Former Lab Members

Alumni and past contributors

Former postdoctoral researchers, research scientists, graduate students, and undergraduate students who contributed to the Brylinski Lab.

Graduate students

Yun Ding PhD
Mahmoud Dondeti PhD
Aashutosh Ghimire
Guannan Liu PhD
Surabhi Maheshwari PhD
Misagh Naderi PhD
Prasanga Neupane PhD
Abd-El-Monsif Ahmed Shawky PhD
Wentao Shi PhD
Manali Singha PhD
Ahmed Tohamy PhD
Shuangyan Yang PhD

Postdocs and researchers

Wei Feinstein PhD
Rajiv Gandhi Govindaraj PhD
Noha Osman PhD
Limeng Pu PhD

Undergraduate students

Daniel Case PhD
Omar Kana PhD
Jeffrey Lemoine
Dion Linder
Ainsley Rothschild
Carl Sabottke MD
Lana Thaljeh MD