Samantha J. Riesenfeld (Preferred)
, Samantha Riesenfeld
, Sam Riesenfeld
Samantha J. Riesenfeld
Pronouns: she/her
Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
- Joined September 2025
Names
Emails
****@uchicago.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@cs.berkeley.edu
, ****@broadinstitute.org
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago (uchicago.edu)
2019 – Present
Postdoc
Broad Institute (broadinstitute.org)
2013 – 2019
Postdoc
Gladstone Instititutes, University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu)
2008 – 2013
PhD student
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2001 – 2007
Undergrad student
Mathematics, Harvard University (harvard.edu)
1995 – 2000
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Postdoc Advisor
Katherine S. Pollard
2008 – 2013
Expertise
computational immunology, immunogenomics
2015 – Present
machine learning for 'omics and multimodal data
2014 – Present
computational biology, functional genomics analysis, systems biology
2008 – Present