Barbara Engelhardt | |
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Born | Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt |
Alma mater | Stanford University (BS, MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Awards | Overton Prize (2021) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistical genetics Bayesian statistics Machine learning Statistical inference Genomics[1] |
Institutions | Princeton University Chicago University Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Thesis | Predicting protein molecular function (2007) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael I. Jordan[2] |
Website | www |
Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt is an American computer scientist and specialist in bioinformatics. Working as a Professor at Stanford University, her work has focused on latent variable models, exploratory data analysis for genomic data, and QTLs.[1] In 2021, she was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology.