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Dr. Ziv Bar-Joseph | |
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 Ziv Bar-Joseph speaking at ISMB in 2012 | |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics Computational biology Machine learning |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | Inferring Interactions, Expression Programs and Regulatory Networks from High Throughput Biological Data (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | David K. Gifford, Tommi S. Jaakkola |
| Website | www |
Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Associate Professor in the Lane Center for Computational Biology and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.[1][2]
Education
Bar-Joseph studied computer science at BSc (1997) and MSc (1999) level, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He gained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in computer science in 2003, under the supervision of David K. Gifford and Tommi S. Jaakkola. Following this, he was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Whitehead Institute.[3]
Research
Bar-Joseph's research at Carnegie Mellon is primarily focused on developing computational methods to allow greater understanding of the interactions and dynamics of complex biological systems, particularly systems that change with time, such as the cell cycle.[2][4]
At MIT, Bar-Joseph's group developed a novel algorithm to discover regulatory networks of gene modules in yeast. These modules are groups of genes that work together to perform tasks such as respiration, protein synthesis and response to external stress.[4][5]
He is also interested in how insights from both computer science and biology can be used to affect the other field, in particular how algorithms from nature can be used in order to improve algorithms in distributed computing.[2][6]
Awards and honours
Bar-Joseph has been awarded the DIMACS-Celera Genomics Graduate Student Award in Computational Molecular Biology and the NSF CAREER award.[7] He was awarded the ISCB Overton Prize in 2012 in recognition of his significant and lasting impact in computational biology.[8]
He co-chaired the Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) conference in 2009 and 2010 and joined the board of the journal Bioinformatics as an Associate Editor in 2013.[9]
Personal life
Bar-Joseph is a keen runner and has run several sub-3 hour marathons.[2][8][4] He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and three children.[4]
References
- ^ "Have Israeli scientists discovered the fountain of youth?". www.israel21c.org. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Ziv Bar-Joseph". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ "Ziv Bar-Joseph CV" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Running Man - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". http://www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ Bar-Joseph, Ziv (12 October 2003). "Computational discovery of gene modules and regulatory networks". Nature Biotechnology. 21 (11): 1337–1342. doi:10.1038/nbt890.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Algorithms in Nature". Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ "Keynote Speakers Abstracts & Biographies". www.iscb.org. ISCB. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- ^ a b Mullins, Justin (31 May 2012). "International Society for Computational Biology Honours Gunnar von Heijne and Ziv Bar-Joseph with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2012". PLoS Computational Biology. 8 (5): e1002535. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002535.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "2013 ISCB Annual Report". www.iscb.org. ISCB. Retrieved 15 February 2014.