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About Me

I'm currently a staff scientist in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, working on computational immunology.

I was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the eScience group Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.
I received my Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, from the Hebrew University, working under the supervision of Prof. Daphna Weinshall.

Research Interests

  • Computational Immunology - development and application of computational tools for immunology, both for large-scale data analysis and for the discovery of novel biological findings.
  • Co-Evolution of the immune system and pathogens - Studying the co-evolution of the MHC system and the pathogens it faces using computational modeling tools. tools.
  • Transfer learning - Machine learning algorithms for transferring knowledge between related tasks.
  • Distance functions - Algorithms for learning distance functions and their applications.
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Arnold Bldg.
Room M2-C115
1100 Fairview Ave. N
Seattle, WA, 98109
USA

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