Mahdi Baghbanzadeh is a Ph.D. student in the health and biomedical data science program at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Mahdi received his MS in Mathematical Statistics from Shiraz University in 2012, and his BS in Statistics from Shahid Beheshti University in 2010. Before joining GWU, he had the experience of 7 years performing in an analytical role ranging from data analyst to senior data scientist in multiple companies. His research interests are applying machine learning algorithms in analyzing omics data, developing tools for studying the sequence-to-phenotype association studies, and the effects of different medications on a specific disease.