Our Team
President and CEO: Dr. Emil Alexov
Dr. Emil Alexov is the founder of Predicagen LLC. His decision to establish
Predicagen was motivated by the understanding that each individual
is unique and therefore that health care should be personalized. This
uniqueness originates from the individual’s genome, but it is also
influenced by the individual’s lifestyle and environment. Understanding the
interplay between human genetic differences and their linkage to human
diseases paves the way for more effective health care in terms of disease
diagnostics, prevention and treatment. Dr. Alexov is strongly committed to
contribute to this gigantic effort, both academically and commercially, and
together with other researchers, to advance the health care. He is editor
for many scientific journals, scientific meeting organizer and has extensive
experience in the area of human genetic variations.
Click here for Dr. Alexov's scientific CV and list of publications.
CTO: Dr. Lin Li
Dr. Lin Li is the co-founder of Predicagen LLC. His main research interests are developing
algorithms/software and using them to solve Biology and Physics problems. In his research career, he
has developed plenty of software and tools which are popular in protein-protein/DNA/RNA interactions,
energy calculations for biomolecules, Monte Carlo simulations for bio-systems, and many other areas. In
Predicagen LLC, Dr. Li takes care of the database update/maintenance and data analysis. Digging into
the big data, his work provides customers fast and accurate information base on their DNA variations.
Click here for Dr. Li’s scientific CV and list of publications.
CTO: Mr. Yunfei Peng
Mr. Yunhui Peng is currently a graduate student in Department of
Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University. He joined in Dr. Emil Alexov's lab since 2013 fall
and his research interests are computational modeling of biological macromolecules and in
silico modeling disease-causing missense mutations’ effect and screening for small molecule
candidates to restore the protein function. Mr. Yunhui Peng is committed to understanding the
effects and revealing the molecular mechanism of disease-associated mutations.
Data Scientist: Zhe Jia
Dr. Zhe Jia is a co-founder of Predicagen LLC., a postdoctoral researcher at Clemson University. Dr. Jia joined the company in 2016, working with the scientists on the development of the gene prediction data base. Prior to joining the company, he worked at AIG on big data guided casualty insurance prediction. He is also interested in computer aid drug design such as protein binding free energy calculation, protein docking, protein signaling, etc.
Click here for Dr. Jia's Linkedin page.
Subject Matter Expert: Dr.Satishkumar RG
Dr.Satishkumar RG graduated from Department of HealthCare Genetics, Clemson University. He joined Dr. Emil Alexov's lab in fall 2016 and his research interests is utilization of computational approaches to enhance the understanding of clinical relevance of variants and its associated disease . Dr. Satishkumar has over 7 years of experience in the field of computational genomics and is committed to understanding the effects mutations have on diseases.
Computer Science student: Mr.Akash Indani
Akash is currently Computer Science graduate student at Clemson University. He joined Dr. Emil Alexov's lab in Jan 2020 and contributed for the development of the data science algorithm and making results more accurate. Prior to joining lab, he worked at Amdocs as Software Engineer for 3 years. He is interested in Data Science, Machine Learning and solving algorthmic problems.
Click here for Akash Indani's Linkedin page.
