Barbara Engelhardt

Barbara Engelhardt
Born
Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt
Alma materStanford University (BS, MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
AwardsOverton Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical genetics
Bayesian statistics
Machine learning
Statistical inference
Genomics[1]
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Chicago University
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
ThesisPredicting protein molecular function (2007)
Doctoral advisorMichael I. Jordan[2]
Websitewww.cs.princeton.edu/~bee/ Edit this at Wikidata

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.