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 of 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 |
2009–2015 |
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), NSF |
2005 |
Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA) Lecture, International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS)3,4 |
2000–2005 |
Individual Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Genomic Research and Analysis, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH |
1999–2003 |
DOE/Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Molecular Biology |
1998 |
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics (DAMOP) Award Finalist, American Physical Society (APS)5 |
11/2022 |
Invited Member, Program Committee, "8th National Cancer Institute (NCI) Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop," Supercomputing 2022 (SC22) (Dallas, Texas) |
9/2022 |
Invited Co-Organizer, Symposium, NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology (Rockville, MD) |
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 (Athens, Greece; Boulder, CO; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Toronto, Canada; Budapest, Hungary) | |
11/2020 |
Invited Member, Program Committee, "6th NCI Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop," Supercomputing 2020 (SC20) Virtual |
9/2020 |
Invited 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, Educational 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-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 Co-Organizer and Chair, Three-Session Minisymposium, "Discovery from Data," 2018 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (SIAM-ALA18) (Hong Kong, China) |
10/2016 |
Invited Panelist, International Association Panel, "Provocative Questions for Medical Physics in Oncology," American Association of Physicists in Medicine (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 Co-Organizer and Panelist, 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 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 |
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-2021446,7,8 |
2009–2015 | NSF CAREER DMS-08471739,10 |
2007–2015 | NHGRI R01 HG-00430211,12 |
2000–2005 | NHGRI K01 HG-00003813,14 |
1999–2003 | DE FG03-99ER6283615 |