Lior Pachter | |
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Born | Lior Samuel Pachter May 3, 1973 |
Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Awards | ISCB Fellow (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Computational biology Bioinformatics Genomics Computer science Mathematics [1] |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Domino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Bonnie Berger [2] |
Doctoral students | Cole Trapnell [2] [3] |
Website |
liorpachter |
Lior Samuel Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Bren Professor of Computational Biology. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics. [1] [4] [5]
Pachter was born in Israel and grew up in South Africa. [6] He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. [4] He completed his doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, supervised by Bonnie Berger, [2] with Eric Lander and Daniel Kleitman as co-advisors. [4]
Pachter was with the University of California, Berkeley faculty from 1999 to 2018 [7] and was given the Sackler Chair in 2012. [4]
As well as for his technical contributions, Pachter is known for using new media to promote open science [8] and for a thought experiment he posted on his blog according to which 'the nearest neighbor to the "perfect human"' is from Puerto Rico. [9] This received considerable media attention, [10] and a response was published in Scientific American. [11] He is also known for his harsh criticisms against the All-of-us project to diversify human genetics [12]
In 2017, Pachter was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). [13]
all of us failed
Lior Pachter | |
---|---|
Born | Lior Samuel Pachter May 3, 1973 |
Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Awards | ISCB Fellow (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Computational biology Bioinformatics Genomics Computer science Mathematics [1] |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Domino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999) |
Doctoral advisor | Bonnie Berger [2] |
Doctoral students | Cole Trapnell [2] [3] |
Website |
liorpachter |
Lior Samuel Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Bren Professor of Computational Biology. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics. [1] [4] [5]
Pachter was born in Israel and grew up in South Africa. [6] He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. [4] He completed his doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, supervised by Bonnie Berger, [2] with Eric Lander and Daniel Kleitman as co-advisors. [4]
Pachter was with the University of California, Berkeley faculty from 1999 to 2018 [7] and was given the Sackler Chair in 2012. [4]
As well as for his technical contributions, Pachter is known for using new media to promote open science [8] and for a thought experiment he posted on his blog according to which 'the nearest neighbor to the "perfect human"' is from Puerto Rico. [9] This received considerable media attention, [10] and a response was published in Scientific American. [11] He is also known for his harsh criticisms against the All-of-us project to diversify human genetics [12]
In 2017, Pachter was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). [13]
all of us failed