Samantha J. Riesenfeld

Assistant Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Joined
September 2025

Names

Samantha J. Riesenfeld (Preferred)
Samantha Riesenfeld
Sam Riesenfeld

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)
2019Present
Postdoc
Broad Institute (broadinstitute.org)
20132019
Postdoc
Gladstone Instititutes, University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu)
20082013
PhD student
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
20012007
Undergrad student
Mathematics, Harvard University (harvard.edu)
19952000

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Family
2007Present
Postdoc Advisor
20132019
Postdoc Advisor
Katherine S. Pollard
20082013
PhD Advisor
20012007

Expertise

computational immunology
immunogenomics
2015Present
machine learning for 'omics and multimodal data
2014Present
computational biology
functional genomics analysis
systems biology
2008Present