The challenge is organized by the Health Analytics Center, part of the Columbia University Data Science Institute.
Noémie Elhadad
Noémie is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and the Chair of the Health Analytics Center. Her research is in biomedical informatics, natural language processing, and data mining. She develops techniques to support clinicians, patients, and health researchers in their information workflow by automatically extracting and making accessible information from unstructured, large clinical datasets (e.g., the electronic patient record) and patient platforms (e.g., online health communities). Itsik Pe'er
Itsik is an Associate Professor in Computer Science, is affiliated with the Department of Systems Biology, and is the co-Chair of the Health Analytics Center. His laboratory develops and applies computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput data in germline human genetics. The Pe’er Lab has developed methodology to identify hidden relatives — primarily in such isolated populations — that involves inferring their past demography, detecting associations between phenotypes and genetic segments co-inherited from the joint ancestors of hidden relatives, and establishing the exceptional utility of whole-genome sequencing in population genetics. |