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Public Biography
I am an assistant professor in the center for precision health, School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI), UTHealth. I studied Physics and and later shifted into bioinformatics and computational biology during my graduate studies. During two consecutive postdoctoral training in Tel Aviv University and Stanford University, I gained expertise in systems biology methods and pharmacogenomics. Prior to my position as an assistant professor, I was a associate researcher in Machine Learning for Healthcare group at IBM research. I am interested in understanding and modeling drugs mode of action and their relation to drug efficacy, adverse reaction and pharmacogenomics, focusing of chronic conditions. My lab employs an integrative computational approach, combining multiple types of data and applying methodologies from systems medicine, machine learning and causal inference domains to identify population and patient-level factors associated with drug efficacy and adverse reactions and to suggest candidates for drug repurposing. Additionally, my research leverages electronic health records for hypothesis generation and validation of therapeutic outcomes.