Olga Troyanskaya

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Born
Olga G. Troyanskaya
Alma mater
Awards Overton Prize (2011) [1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Improving the specificity of biological signal detection from microarray data
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students Curtis Huttenhower [4] [5]
Website function.princeton.edu

Olga G. Troyanskaya is an American scientist. She is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University and the Deputy Director for Genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology in New York City. [6] She studies protein function and interactions in biological pathways by analyzing genomic data using computational tools. [2] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

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Education

Troyanskaya completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Biology at the University of Richmond in 1999 and her Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University in 2003. [1] [3] [13]

Awards

In 2011, she was awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). [14] In 2014, she was awarded the Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetics Society of America. [15] In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB. [16] In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) " for contributions to computational biology and data integration." [17]

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