Computer Science
Sriram Sankararaman
Professor
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
- Engineering VI - Room 296B
- sriram@cs.ucla.edu
- (310) 825-3219
- Fax: (310) 825-2273
Faculty Information
Research and Interests
- Computational biology
- Statistical genomics
- Statistical machine learning
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Bayesian statistics
In the News
- 'More Neanderthal Than Human': How Your Health May Depend on DNA From Our Long-Lost Ancestors | Live Science, May 2024
- A New Model for Human Origins in Africa Upends Commonly Held Beliefs About Our Evolution | Salon, July 2023
- Neanderthal DNA Could Be to Blame for Your Poor Immune System | Newsweek, June 2023
- Thousands of Neanderthal Genes "Still Influence People in Britain Today" | Aol, June 2023
- The changing story of human evolution | The Economist
- Mysterious 'ghost population' of ancient humans discovered | CNN
- 'Ghost' DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins | National Public Radio
- Ghost DNA Hints at Africa’s Missing Ancient Humans | The New York Times
- Scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans | The Guardian
- Remnants of Extinct Hominin Species Found in West African Genomes | The Scientist
- 'Ghost' human ancestor discovered in West Africa | BBC
- 'Ghost' Ancestors: African DNA Study Detects Mysterious Human Species | Wire
- Scientists detect ‘ghost’ DNA from mysterious human species | New York Post
- 'GHOST' ANCESTORS: AFRICAN DNA STUDY DETECTS MYSTERIOUS HUMAN SPECIES | Eyewitness News
- THE 'GHOST' OF AN UNKNOWN HUMAN SPECIES HAS BEEN FOUND IN WEST AFRICANS LIVING TODAY | Newsweek
- Some West Africans may have genes from an ancient ‘ghost’ hominid | Science News
- Ancient "Ghost" DNA Identified in Living Humans | Inverse
- DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals 'ghost' human ancestor | New Scientist
- ‘Ghost’ Ancestor Detected in DNA of Today’s West Africans | Haaretz
- An Unknown "Ghost" Human Species Lives On In The DNA Of People From West Africa | IFL Science
- ‘Ghost DNA’ belonging to ancient extinct humans is still alive in the genomes of West Africans | ZME Science
- The 'Ghost' of an Unknown Extinct Human Has Been Found in DNA of Modern West Africans| MSN
- Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a mysterious, extinct species – new research | The Conversation
- Early humans in Africa may have interbred with a mysterious, extinct species – new research | Yahoo! News
- Genetic Traces of Mysterious Human Lineage Detected in People Living in West Africa | Inside Science
- Evidence grows that ancient humans mixed with unknown race of people 50,000 years ago as new study shows 'ghost DNA' in samples from modern-day population of west Africa | The Daily Mail (U.K.)
- GHOST HUNTERS Scientists uncover evidence of mysterious ‘ghost population’ of ancient humans who roamed half a million years ago | The Sun (U.K.)
- Evidence of Ancient Admixture Found in Genomes of Modern West Africans | Genome Web
- DNA study detects mysterious human 'ghost' species | Japan Times
- Scientists explain link between extinct ghost population and modern humans | India Today
- Scientists discover 'ghost' human ancestor in Africa | Ghana Web
- Mysterious ‘ghost’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors | Science Magazine
Education
PhD (2010) UC Berkeley
Awards and Recognition
- Sloan Fellow
- Microsoft Investigator Fellow
- NSF CAREER Award