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Leonid Peshkin

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Leonid Peshkin
Born8 May 1970 (1970-05-08) (age 54)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materBrown University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Thesis Reinforcement learning by policy search  (2002)
Doctoral advisorLeslie Kaelbling
Other academic advisorsShimon Ullman
Websitescholar.google.com/citations?user=WMhS0lAAAAAJ

Leonid Leon Peshkin is a scientist working at the Systems Biology Department, Harvard Medical School. Peshkin's research interests include embryology, evolution and aging[1].

Leon’s research and personal story was covered in a recent Boston Globe article [2][3]. His family contribution as genomic standard for the Genome in a Bottle program[4] was also cover by Genome magazine article[5]. His research in systems biology was covered in press releases from HMS [6][7]

Early life

Born on 8 May 1970 in Moscow, Peshkin moved to the US in 1995 to study at the Brown University towards PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He followed his PhD advisor Leslie Kaelbling to MIT AI lab where we worked on his dissertation “Reinforcement Learning via Policy Search”.

Education

He received his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1995 advised by Shimon Ullman and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2002 advised by Leslie Kaelbling.

References

  1. ^ "Leonid Peshkin - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  2. ^ Weintraub, Karen (20 Jun 2018). "A doctor wages personal and professional battles against aging". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 Jun 2018.
  3. ^ "Anti-aging researcher faces loss of his inspiration: his 96-year-old father". STAT. 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  4. ^ "GIAB". The Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  5. ^ "Genome in a Bottle". Genome Magazine. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  6. ^ "Stockpiling proteins | HMS". hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  7. ^ "Striking a Chord | HMS". hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-24.