• Adrienne Hoarfrost

    Adrienne Hoarfrost

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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Meet the Team

  • Damián J. Santiago-Sosa

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    I'm from Puerto Rico, a small island in the Caribbean. During my undergrad, I pursued a BSc in microbiology and conducted research in microbial ecology. Currently, I am a PhD student in Bioinformatics at UGA, and I joined the hoarfrost lab to integrate my interests in microbiology and computer science. At this moment, I'm working on the project "Foundation Models & Transfer Learning" focused on microbial communities in the ocean. Besides the lab, I spend my time running, reading, or listening to trashy girl music.

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    Ratish Jha

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Ratish is a passionate Computer Science professional with a keen interest in applications of Machine Learning. Currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at UGA.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/ratish11     https://github.com/ratish11/

  • Soumya Bharadwaj

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    I am from India, pursuing Master’s in Computer Science at UGA. I am working on functionally characterizing “microbial dark matter” enzymes using machine learning. I enjoy reading, playing volleyball, and swimming.

  • Vatsal Thakkar

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Master's in Computer Science at UGA | Deep Learning Enthusiast | Research Assistant @ Hoarfrost Lab: Double Helix Dialogue | Decoding the Absence: Text-to-Image Generative Diffusion Project | #NLP #DeepLearning #GenerativeAI #MultimodalAI #ComputerVision

    LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vatsal-thakkar-880320161/

    Website : https://vatsalthakkar3.github.io/

  • Preeti Chatterjee

    Hi, I am Preeti from India, pursuing my Masters in computer science thesis right now. My first cool project in Hoarfrost lab is creating a representative dataset encapsulating almost all metagenomes in the whole world! I am definitely looking forward to achieving more milestones with this lab. Outside this, I occasionally enjoy playing a good game of counter-strike to unwind! Connect with me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/preeti-chatterjee-b89415171/).

Lab Alumni

  • Henok Hagos

    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHER

    I am from Lawrenceville, Georgia and I graduated from Brookwood high school in May 2020. I am currently a third-year student at the University of Georgia, and I am majoring in Biology with a focus on a pre-med track. I will be working with Dr. Hoarfrost in the marine sciences lab on identifying well-behaved cyanobacteria cultures and acclimating newly acquired cultures to growth in the lab for future analyses of their metal accumulation rates. I am excited to be working on this project and cannot wait to see what we discover in the lab. Outside of school, some of my hobbies include watching and playing basketball, going to the movies with my friends, and playing ping-pong with my dad.

WE’RE HIRING!

We are always looking for exceptional and passionate people who share our vision to join our team. If you don’t see a specific position that is a fit for you, reach out anyway! This page isn’t always up to date.

The Hoarfrost Lab is hiring PhD students, MS students, and postdocs!

We are looking for computational, empirical, and hybrid scientists for several ongoing projects. These include:

  • Biological foundation models for microbial ecology

  • Self-driving labs and active machine learning

  • Functional characterization of “microbial dark matter” driving the marine carbon cycle

  • Causal machine learning and explainable AI in marine microbiology

  • Mining marine microbes for commercially relevant sustainable materials

  • Modeling the microbial component of variability in marine carbon export

  • Quantifying uncertainty in ‘blue carbon’ carbon cycle accounting

If you are interested in any of these topics, please email Adrienne at (adrienne dot hoarfrost at uga dot edu), including your resume and a short description of your interest in the lab.