Ziv Bar-Joseph

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Ziv Bar-Joseph
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Ziv Bar-Joseph speaking at ISMB in 2012
Born1971 (age 5152) [1]
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Awards Overton Prize (2012)
Scientific career
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Thesis Inferring Interactions, Expression Programs and Regulatory Networks from High Throughput Biological Data  (2003)
Doctoral advisor
Website www.cs.cmu.edu/~zivbj/

Ziv Bar-Joseph is an Israeli computational biologist and Professor in the Computational Biology Department and the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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Education

Bar-Joseph studied computer science at Bachelor of Science (1997) and Master of Science (1999) level, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He gained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in computer science in 2003, under the supervision of David K. Gifford and Tommi S. Jaakkola. [1] Following this, he was a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Whitehead Institute. [11]

Research

Bar-Joseph's research at Carnegie Mellon is primarily focused on developing computational methods to allow greater understanding of the interactions and dynamics of complex biological systems, particularly systems that change with time, such as the cell cycle. [3] [12]

At MIT, Bar-Joseph's group developed a novel algorithm to discover regulatory networks of gene modules in yeast. These modules are groups of genes that work together to perform tasks such as respiration, protein synthesis and response to external stress. [12] [13]

He is also interested in how insights from both computer science and biology can be used to affect the other field, in particular how algorithms from nature can be used in order to improve algorithms in distributed computing. [3] [14]

Awards and honours

Bar-Joseph has been awarded the DIMACS-Celera Genomics Graduate Student Award in Computational Molecular Biology and the NSF CAREER award. [15] He was awarded the ISCB Overton Prize in 2012 in recognition of his significant and lasting impact in computational biology. [16]

He co-chaired the Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) conference in 2009 and 2010 and joined the board of the journal Bioinformatics as an Associate Editor in 2013. [17]

Personal life

Bar-Joseph is a keen runner and has run several sub-3 hour marathons. [3] [12] [16] He lives in Pittsburgh and Shoham with his wife and three children. [12]

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References

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  2. "Have Israeli scientists discovered the fountain of youth?". www.israel21c.org. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
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  5. Bar-Joseph, Z. (2004). "Analyzing time series gene expression data". Bioinformatics. 20 (16): 2493–2503. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth283 . PMID   15130923.
  6. Bar-Joseph, Ziv's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. Ziv Bar-Joseph at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  8. Ziv Bar-Joseph publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  9. Ziv Bar-Joseph author profile page at the ACM Digital Library OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  10. Bar-Joseph, Z.; El-Yaniv, R.; Lischinski, D.; Werman, M. (2001). "Texture mixing and texture movie synthesis using statistical learning". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 7 (2): 120. doi:10.1109/2945.928165.
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