Serafim Batzoglou is Chief Data Officer at Seer Inc.
Prior to that he was Chief Data Officer at insitro, VP of computational genomics a
Illumina and professor of
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...
at
Stanford University between 2001 and 2016. His lab focused on
computational genomics Computational genomics refers to the use of computational and statistical analysis to decipher biology from genome sequences and related data, including both DNA and RNA sequence as well as other "post-genomic" data (i.e., experimental data obtaine ...
with special interest in developing algorithms, machine learning methods, and systems for the analysis of large scale genomic data. He has also been involved with the
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a ...
and
ENCODE
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) is a public research project which aims to identify functional elements in the human genome.
ENCODE also supports further biomedical research by "generating community resources of genomics data, software ...
.
Background
Batzoglou did his undergraduate studies at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
and obtained his PhD in Computer Science from
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 2000 under the supervision of
Bonnie Berger
Bonnie Anne Berger is an American mathematician and computer scientist, who works as the Simons professor of mathematics and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research inte ...
.
Awards
*
ISCB Fellow
ISCB Fellowship is an award granted to scientists that the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) judges to have made “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”. , there are 76 Fellow ...
(2020)
*
ISCB Innovator Award
The ISCB Innovator Award is a computational biology prize awarded annually to leading scientists who are within two decades post-degree, who consistently make outstanding contributions to the field, and who continue to forge new directions.
The pr ...
(2016)
* Sloan Research Fellowship,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors.
The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support ...
* Career Award in Computer Science, National Science Foundation
* Top 100 Young Technology Innovators,
MIT Technology Review
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* Best Paper Award,
ISMB
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is an annual academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology organised by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The principal focus of the co ...
(2003)
References
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Living people
Stanford University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Greek computer scientists
Human Genome Project scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)