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Mathieu Blanchette is a Professor at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where he founded the Computational Genomics Lab. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2002 and a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz in 2003. His research focuses on developing computational approaches to key questions in genomics and evolution, particularly in the areas of genome evolution, gene expression regulation, and transposable element annotation. He has published over 70 publications and has received various awards including the Outstanding Young Computer Scientist Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science in 2012 and the Leo Yaffe Prize for teaching in 2008. His lab collaborates with biologists, biochemists, and geneticists to utilize machine learning and statistical methods for significant biological discoveries.
McGill University • Montreal, QC, Canada
Head of the Computational Genomics Lab, focusing on computational approaches in genomics and collaboration with various biological disciplines.
Department: Department of Medicine. Program: Experimental Medicine.