| Institution | Degree | Year | Field |
| Stanford University, CA | Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2004 | Genetics |
| Stanford University, CA | Ph.D.1 | 1999 | Applied Physics |
| Tel Aviv University, Israel | B.Sc. magna cum laude | 1989 | Physics |
| 2016– | Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder, Eigengene, Inc.2 |
| 2016– |
Investigator, and Member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), University of Utah |
| 2011– |
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah |
| 2010– |
Utah Science, Technology, and Research (USTAR) Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah |
| 2010–2016 |
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2004–2010 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Fellow, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1998–2004 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, Stanford University |
| 1991–1998 |
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University |
| 2020 |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Research Webinar, "Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutics," AWS3,4 |
| 2018 |
Plenary Lecture, "Comparative Spectral Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics," 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA ICA 2018) (Guildford, United Kingdom) |
| 2018 |
Plenary Lecture, "Comparative Spectral Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics," 2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (SIAM-ALA18) (Hong Kong, China) |
| 2015– |
U01 Project Grant, "Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics," National Cancer Institute (NCI) Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON), NIH5,6,7,8 |
| 2014 |
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Science Council Session Winner (SCSW) Lecture Award, "Singular Value Decomposition Identifies Transcript Length Distribution Functions from DNA Microarray Data and Reveals Evolutionary Forces Globally Affecting Glioblastoma Multiforme Metabolism," AAPM |
| 2014 |
Bloomberg L.P. Distinguished Speaker Lectures, "Discovery of Principles of Nature from Matrix and Tensor Modeling of Large-Scale (Molecular Biological) Data," and "(Physics-Inspired) Mathematical Vocabulary for Discovery from Data," Bloomberg L.P.9 |
| 2009–2015 |
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, "Integrative and Comparative Tensor Algebra Models of DNA Microarray Data from Different Studies of the Cell Cycle," Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), NSF10,11 |
| 2007–2015 |
R01 Project Grant, "Tensor Computations for Modeling Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data – from Discovery of Patterns to Discovery of Principles of Nature," National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH12,13 |
| 2006 |
Plenary Lecture, "Uncovering the Molecular Biological Principles that Govern Cellular Systems with Blind Source Separation Models," 6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006) (Charleston, SC) |
| 2005 |
Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA) Lecture, "Genomic Signal Processing: From Matrix Algebra to Genetic Networks," International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS)14,15 |
| 2000–2005 |
K01 Individual Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Genomic Research and Analysis, "Mathematical Tools for Genome-Wide Gene Expression Data Analysis," NHGRI, NIH16,17 |
| 1999–2003 |
DOE/Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology, "Analytical and Computational Tools for Genome-Wide Gene Expression Data Analysis," DOE/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation18 |
| 1998 |
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics (DAMOP) Award Finalist, "Impossibility of Determining the Quantum Wavefunction of a Single System and Fundamental Limit to External Force Detection," American Physical Society (APS)19 |
| 1997 |
Plenary Lecture, "Impossibility of Determining the Quantum Wavefunction of a Single System and Fundamental Limit to External Force Detection," 5th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (FICSSUR 1997) (Balatonfüred, Hungary) |
| 7/2023, 6/2022, 6/2017, 6/2016, 6/2015, 6/2014 | |
| Invited Mentor, International High-Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences (Atlanta, GA; Athens, Greece; Boulder, CO; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Toronto, Canada; Budapest, Hungary) | |
| 1/2023– | |
| Appointed Co-Chair, Steering Committee, PS-ON, NCI, NIH | |
| 11/2022 |
Invited Member, Program Committee, and Invited Panelist, International Conference Panel, "8th National Cancer Institute (NCI) Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop," Supercomputing 2022 (SC22) (Dallas, Texas) |
| 9/2022 |
Invited Moderator and Co-Organizer, Virtual Symposium, NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology |
| 11/2020 |
Invited Member, Program Committee, "6th NCI Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop," Supercomputing 2020 (SC20) Virtual |
| 9/2020 |
Invited Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Virtual Symposium, Decade of the Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON) at the NCI |
| 6/2020 |
Invited Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Education Session, "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from Research to the Cancer Clinic," 2020 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting II |
| 9/2019 |
Invited Co-Chair and Co-Organizer, Symposium, NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 1/2019–12/2019 | |
| Appointed Co-Chair, Steering Committee, PS-ON, NCI, NIH | |
| 11/2018, 3/2017 | |
| Appointed Member, Scientific Review Panel, "Emerging Questions in Cancer Systems Biology," NCI, NIH | |
| 10/2018 |
Invited Panelist, International Conference Panel, "Physical Sciences in Oncology," 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA) |
| 5/2018 |
Invited Chair and Co-Organizer, Three-Session Minisymposium, "Discovery from Data," SIAM-ALA18 (Hong Kong, China) |
| 2/2017 |
Invited Chair, Session, 1st Gordon Research Conference on the Physics of Cancer (Galveston, TX) |
| 10/2016 |
Invited Panelist, International Association Panel, "Provocative Questions for Medical Physics in Oncology," AAPM (Boston, MA) |
| 6/2016 |
Appointed Member, Scientific Review Panel, "Genomic Data Analysis Network," NCI, NIH |
| 9/2015– | Appointed Member, Steering Committee, PS-ON, NCI, NIH |
| 9/2014 |
Invited Panelist and Co-Organizer, International Conference Panel, "Translational Bioinformatics," 5th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) (Newport Beach, CA) |
| 7/2014 |
Invited Chair and Organizer, Three-Session Minisymposium, "Discovery from Data:" "I. Mathematical Patterns in Nature," "II. Cancer Genomic Signals and Systems" and "III. Decompositions for Big Data Applications," 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL) |
| 3/2014, 3/2013, 4/2012, 3/2011 | |
| Appointed Member, Scientific Review Panel, "National Centers for Systems Biology," National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), NIH | |
| 9/2013 |
Invited Chair and Organizer, Track, "Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology," 2013 BMES Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA) |
| 7/2013 |
Invited Participant, NSF/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Connections 2013 Symposium (Washington, DC) |
| 4/2011– | Invited International Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel |
| 2/2009 |
Invited Participant, Workshop, "Future Directions in Tensor-Based Computation and Modeling," NSF |
| 2/2008 |
Chair and Organizer, Special Symposium, SXSVD (South by SVD): Gene H. Golub's World Day Celebration in Austin (Austin, TX) |
| 1/2008 |
Invited Participant, Planning Meeting, "The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal," National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH |
| 12/2007– |
Appointed Member, Scientific Review Panels, e.g., Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award Panel and Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Panel, NSF |
| 8/2006 |
Invited Participant, Workshop, "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences," NSF |
| 7/2006 |
Chair and Organizer, Invited Session, "Genomic Signals and Systems," 17th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) (Kyoto, Japan) |
| 4/2005– |
Appointed Member, Scientific Review Panels, e.g., "Genomes to Life," DOE |
| 3/2005– | Editorial Board Member and Acting Editor, Journals |
| 2/2005– |
Invited International Reviewer, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium |
| 12/2001 |
Invited Participant, Planning Meeting, "A Vision for the Future of Genomics Research," NHGRI, NIH |
| 9/1995– | Reviewer, Journals |
| 2015– | NCI U01 CA-20214420,21,22 | $3,395,98623 |
| 2009–2015 | NSF CAREER DMS-084717324 | $400,05325 |
| 2007–2015 | NHGRI R01 HG-00430226 | $1,768,52527 |
| 2000–2005 | NHGRI K01 HG-00003828 | $527,36729 |
| 1999–2003 | DE FG03-99ER6283630 | $100,000 |