| 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 |
| 2024– |
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Co-Founder, Prism AI Therapeutics, Inc. |
| 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 |
| 2025 |
25th Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) General Meeting (Marco Island, FL), Plenary Lecture, "Multi-Tensor AI/ML Uniquely Able to Identify Actionable and Mechanistically Interpretable Predictors from Small-Cohort and Noisy High-Dimensional Multi-Omic Clinical Data" |
| 2020 |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Education Research Webinar, "Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutics" |
| 2018 |
14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA ICA 2018) (Guildford, United Kingdom), Plenary Lecture, "Comparative Spectral Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics"2 |
| 2018 |
2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (SIAM-ALA18) (Hong Kong, China), Plenary Lecture, "Comparative Spectral Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics" |
| 2015–2023 |
NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI) Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON), U01 Project Grant, "Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics"3,4,5 |
| 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"6 |
| 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"7 |
| 2009–2015 |
NSF/Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, "Integrative and Comparative Tensor Algebra Models of DNA Microarray Data from Different Studies of the Cell Cycle"8,9 |
| 2007–2015 |
NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), R01 Project Grant, "Tensor Computations for Modeling Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data – from Discovery of Patterns to Discovery of Principles of Nature"10,11 |
| 2006 |
6th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA 2006) (Charleston, SC), Plenary Lecture, "Uncovering the Molecular Biological Principles That Govern Cellular Systems with Blind Source Separation Models" |
| 2005 |
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) Linear Algebra and Its Applications (LAA) Lecture, "Genomic Signal Processing: From Matrix Algebra to Genetic Networks"12 |
| 2000–2005 |
NIH/NHGRI, K01 Individual Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Genomic Research and Analysis, "Mathematical Tools for Gene Expression Data Analysis"13,14 |
| 1999–2003 |
DOE/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology, "Analytical and Computational Tools for Genome-Wide Gene Expression Data Analysis"15 |
| 1998 |
American Physical Society (APS), 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"16 |
| 1997 |
5th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (FICSSUR 1997) (Balatonfüred, Hungary), Plenary Lecture, "Impossibility of Determining the Quantum Wavefunction of a Single System and Fundamental Limit to External Force Detection" |
| 3/2025 |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25) (Fort Worth, TX), Organizing Committee Member |
| 1/2025– |
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) Speaker Selection Committee Member |
| 2/2024– |
University of Utah, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, Associate Director |
| 2/2023– |
NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI) -DOE Cancer Moonshot Collaboration, Scientific Advisory Board Member, "Innovative Methodologies and New Data for Predictive Oncology Model Evaluation (IMPROVE) Project" |
| 11/2024, 11/2023, 11/2022, 11/2020 | |
| Supercomputing (SC) NCI Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop (CAFCW) (Atlanta, GA;17 Denver, CO;18 Dallas, TX;19 Virtual), Workshop Organizing Committee Member | |
| 1–12/2023, 1–12/2019 | |
| NIH/NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON), Steering Committee Co-Chair | |
| 9/2015–12/2023 | |
| NIH/NCI PS-ON, Steering Committee Member | |
| 11/2023 |
NIH/NCI Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC) and PS-ON Joint Meeting (Bethesda, MD), Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, and Invited Speaker |
| 7/2023, 6/2022, 7/2021, 6/2017, 6/2016, 6/2015, 6/2014 | |
| International High-Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences (Atlanta, GA; Athens, Greece; Virtual; Boulder, CO; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Toronto, Canada; Budapest, Hungary), Mentor and Speaker | |
| 9/2022, 9/2019 | |
| NIH/NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology Symposium (Virtual; Minneapolis, MN), Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, and Panel Moderator | |
| 9/2020 |
NIH/NCI, Decade of the PS-ON at the NCI Virtual Symposium, Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, and Invited Speaker |
| 6/2020 |
2020 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting II, Education Session Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, and Invited Speaker "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from Research to the Cancer Clinic"20 |
| 10/2018 |
2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA), Speaker and Panelist, "Physical Sciences in Oncology" |
| 5/2018 |
2018 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (SIAM-ALA18) (Hong Kong, China), Three-Session Minisymposium Chair and Co-Organizer, "Discovery from Data" |
| 2/2017 |
1st Gordon Research Conference on the Physics of Cancer (Galveston, TX), Session Chair |
| 10/2016 |
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Broadcast (Boston, MA), Panelist, "Provocative Questions for Medical Physics in Oncology" |
| 9/2014 |
5th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) (Newport Beach, CA), Panel Co-Chair, Co-Organizer, and Participant, "Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology" |
| 7/2014 |
2014 SIAM Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL), Three-Session Minisymposium Chair, Organizer, and Speaker, "Discovery from Data:" "I. Mathematical Patterns in Nature," "II. Cancer Genomic Signals and Systems," "III. Decompositions for Big Data Applications" |
| 9/2013 |
2013 BMES Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA), Track Chair, Organizer, and Speaker, "Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology" |
| 7/2013 |
NSF–Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Connections 2013 Symposium (Washington, DC), Participant |
| 2/2009 |
NSF, Workshop Participant, "Future Directions in Tensor-Based Computation and Modeling" |
| 2/2008 |
SXSVD (South by SVD): Gene H. Golub's World Day Celebration (Austin, TX), Chair and Organizer |
| 1/2008 |
NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Planning Meeting Participant, "The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal" |
| 8/2006 |
NSF, Workshop Participant, "Petascale Computing in the Biosciences" |
| 7/2006 |
17th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) (Kyoto, Japan), Invited Session Chair and Organizer, "Genomic Signals and Systems" |
| 12/2001 |
NIH/NHGRI, Planning Meeting Participant, "A Vision for the Future of Genomics Research" |
| 2015–2023 | NCI U01 CA-20214421,22 | $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 |