Recognition continues to add up for Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Lane Center for Computational Biology and Machine Learning Department.
Already the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for Young Investigators, he has been awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), which is a scholarly society dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation.
The society awards the Overton Prize annually to one early- to mid-career scientist who has made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology.
Bar-Joseph, who joined the School of Computer Science faculty in 2003, applies machine learning, statistical algorithms, and signal processing techniques to massive biological databases. He has led international research efforts that have identified genes important to human cell division, including a subset associated with cancer cells, which uncovered new insights into gene regulatory networks.
In a study published last year in the journal Science, he and his colleagues observed methods that have evolved to organize cells during nervous system development. The same methods, they concluded, could be used to improve the deployment of wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing applications.
“It’s stunning how he is able to handle such a diverse set of technical methods,” says Burkhard Rost, president of the ISCB. “He’s a perfect example of a new generation of scientists.”
—Byron Spice
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