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Sat - Wed (8.00 - 16.00)
HBC 2026 Presentations
Prof. Heidi Rehm
Chief Genomics Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital & Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Chief Genomics Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
- Institute Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Genetics, Harvard University
- M.S. in Biomedical Science, Harvard Medical School
Presentation Title:
- Global Strategies to Decipher Rare Diseaseis
Language of Presentation:
- English
Prof. Marcus Kaiser
Professor of Neuroinformatics at the University of Nottingham
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Co-director of the Centre for Neurotechnology, Neuromodulation, and Neurotherapeutics
- Chair of Neuroinformatics UK
- Chair of the Neuroinformatics SIG of the British Neuroscience Association (BNA)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
- Member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Data Science Advisory Group
- Author of the book 'Changing Connectomes'
Presentation Title:
- Non-invasive Neuromodulation: Challenges and Solutions for At-home Devices
Language of Presentation:
- English
Prof. Anshul Kundaje
Associate Professor of Genetics and Computer Science at Stanford University
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Associate Professor of Genetics and Computer Science, Stanford University
- Principal Investigator of the Kundaje Lab (Deep Learning for Genomics)
- Member of Stanford Bio-X, Stanford Cancer Institute, and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia University
- Postdoctoral Research in Computational Biology, Stanford University & MIT
Presentation Title:
- Decoding regulatory DNA with deep learning models
Language of Presentation:
- English
Prof. Arjun Krishnan
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz
- Former Faculty Member at Michigan State University (MSU)
- Principal Investigator of the Krishnan Lab (Data-driven integration for biomedicine)
Educational Background:
- Postdoctoral Research, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
- Ph.D. in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech
Presentation Title:
- ~ To Be Announced
Language of Presentation:
- English
Dr. Mohieddin Jafari
Principal Investigator (PI) & IAS Senior Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Principal Investigator, Systems Pharmacology Group
- Faculty Member, Dept. of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Faculty Member, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Finland
Educational Background:
- Docent in Bioinformatics
- Ph.D. in Proteomics
Presentation Title:
- SOORENA: Systematic Discovery of Autoregulatory Nodes in Biological Networks
Language of Presentation:
- English
Prof. Kathryn Roeder
UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Professor of Computational Biology, CMU
- Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University
- B.S. in Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho
Presentation Title:
- Genomic Inferences in the era of black box predictions
Language of Presentation:
- English
Dr. Waqar Hanif
Founder & CEO at BioCode | Researcher at DZNE
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Founder & CEO, BioCode (Learn Bioinformatics Platform)
- Researcher, DZNE (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases)
- Academic & Research Affiliate, NUST (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)
Educational Background:
- Advanced Research & Studies in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NUST / DZNE)
Presentation Title:
- ~ To Be Announced
Language of Presentation:
- English
Dr. Iman Dehzangi
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rutgers University
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Faculty Member at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Academic and Research Affiliations with Morgan State University, Griffith University, and The University of Iowa
- Researcher in Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and Computational Biology
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Griffith University
- Extensive research in biomedical image analysis and deep learning frameworks
Presentation Title:
- Hippocampal Tissue Image Analysis Using Generative and Foundation Models
Language of Presentation:
- English
Dr. Delaram Pouyabahar
Researcher at the Broad Institute & Wellcome Sanger Institute
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Researcher / Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Researcher / Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, University of Toronto
Presentation Title:
- Modeling sources of variability to interpret single cell RNAseq maps
Language of Presentation:
- English
Prof. Olga Vitek
Raymond Bradford Bradstreet Professor & Director of the Barnett Institute at Northeastern University
Academic & Industrial Background:
- Raymond Bradford Bradstreet Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
- Director of the Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis at Northeastern University
- Former Faculty and University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University
- Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and President-elect of the US Human Proteome Organization (USHUPO)
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Purdue University
Presentation Title:
- Statistics, machine learning and AI for design and analysis of mass spectrometry imaging experiments
Language of Presentation:
- English