Every August U-BRITE organizes a data science hackathon, which brings together biomedical researchers, bioinformaticians, scientists, software developers, and computer engineers from around the world. The hackathon offers two days of hacking with nearly 80 participants. Leading up to the hackathon, participants are offered training by world-renowned scientists in UAB’s Informatics Institute, CGDS, U-BRITE, and Research Computing.
What Is U-BRITE?
U-BRITE (UAB Biomedical Research Information Technology Enhancement) assembles new and existing HIPAA-compliant, high-performance informatics tools to provide researchers with a means to better manage and analyze clinical and genomic data sets and implements a “translational research commons” to facilitate and enable interdisciplinary team science across geographical locations.
Learn more about U-BRITE at https://ubrite.org/
| Name | Role | Department & Institution |
| Tarun Mamidi | Chair | CGDS, UAB |
| Shaurita Hutchins | Co-chair | CGDS, UAB |
| Dr. James Cimino | Co-chair | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Dr. Thanh Nguyen | Co-chair | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Amanda Carballo | Logistics Chair | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Nafisa Sani | Webmaster | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Ryan McCain | Communications Chair | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Lisa Shrestha | Communications Committee Member | UAB |
| Ari Ginsparg | Committee member | UAB |
| Dana Indihar | Committee Member | UAB |
| Valeriya Kuznetsova | Committee Member | UAB |
| Emma Graffice | Committee Member | UAB |
| Santhosh Karthikeyan | Committee Member | UAB |
| Zhandos Sembay | Datasets Manager | UAB |
| Name | Role | Department & Institution |
| Dr. Jake Chen | Chair | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Dr. Zechen Chong | Committee member | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Dr. Alex Rosenberg | Committee member | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Dr. Liz Worthey | Committee member | CGDS, UAB |
| Dr. Amy Wang | Committee member | Informatics Institute, UAB |
| Dr. Blake Joyce | Technical Chair & Special Advisor | Research Computing, UAB |
| Name | Role | Department & Institution |
| Dr. Ben Busby | Special Advisor | DNAnexus |
| Dr. Allissa Dilman | Special Advisor | Biodata Sage |