People

Sheedeh Sharif-Bakhtiar

Leon Li

Assistant Professor at UQAM since 2024

PhD student at McGill since 2024, Jeremy works on metagenomics and bioinformatics citizen science games

(co-supervised with Jérôme Waldispühl)

PhD student at McGill since 2025, Sheedeh works on machine learning applied to the human microbiome and to bioinformatics citizen science game data

(co-supervised with Jérôme Waldispühl)

PhD student at McGill since 2025, Leon works on bioinformatics citizen science games

(co-supervised with Jérôme Waldispühl)

Grâcia Bagou

Salim Dan Kobo

PhD student en co-tutelle between Paris-Saclay and UQAM since 2025, Camille works on combinatorics approaches for the identification of RNA structural motifs in structures and sequences

(co-supervised with Alain Denise and Vladimir Reinharz)

MSc student at UQAM since 2024, Andres works on machine learning applied to supervised representation of microbiome profiles

MSc student at UQAM since 2024, Grâcia works on a motif-focused graph neural network approach for RNA-ligand binding prediction.

MSc student at UQAM since 2025, Salim works on hybrid image-graph representations of human microbiome profiles for host status classification.

Rayane Belhadj Bouchaib

Olivier Provost

MSc student at UQAM since 2025, Nicolas works on the design of citizen science game for ortholog identification

MSc student at UQAM and IRCM since 2025, Ayichatou works on the identification of enriched structural motifs in secreted RNAs.

(co-supervised with Éric Lécuyer)

Undergraduate student at UQAM, Rayane works on a user-friendly data processing pipeline for the application of graph neural networks to human microbiome data

Undergraduate student at UQAM, Olivier works on the game-first design and development of a serious game

(co-supervised with Alexandra Nemery, ETS)