Uwaise Ibna Islam

University of Florida, United States.

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6200 Malachowsky Hall

1889 Museum Rd

Gainesville, FL, 32606

Computer and Information Science PhD student in University of Florida. I work under the supervision of Dr. Christina Boucher with research concentration in Bionformatics. Currently working on scalable PBWT querying on BioBank scale data on phased haplotypes. Previously, I worked as a research assistant in the AssisGroup at Florida Atlantic University where I worked on developing ML framework to learn cross-species genotype-phenotype associations from gaps in sequence alignments. I like to play soccer and travel when I am not busy with work.

news

Dec 07, 2025 PBML pre-print available on BioXriv :sparkles: :smile:
Jul 01, 2025 I transferred to CISE at UF!
Feb 20, 2025 GAP is out in Briefings in Bioinformatics! :sparkles: :smile:

selected publications

  1. Brief.Bio.
    Learning genotype–phenotype associations from gaps in multi-species sequence alignments
    Uwaise Ibna Islam, Andre Luiz Santos, Ria Kanjilal, and 1 more author
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2025
  2. Under Rev.
    Scalable PBWT Queries with Minimum-Length SMEM Constraints
    Uwaise Ibna Islam, Davide Cozzi, Travis Gagie, and 5 more authors
    bioRxiv, 2025
  3. Ann.Data.Sci
    A machine learning model for predicting individual substance abuse with associated risk-factors
    Uwaise Ibna Islam, Enamul Haque, Dheyaaldin Alsalman, and 3 more authors
    Annals of Data Science, 2023