Dr. Saurabh Sinha

Biography

Saurabh Sinha is a distinguished professor and holds the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2002 before pursuing post-doctoral research at Rockefeller University with Eric Siggia. In 2005, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he held the title of Founder Professor in Computer Science and served as Director of Computational Genomics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology until 2022. Sinha's research primarily revolves around bioinformatics, with a particular focus on regulatory genomics and systems biology. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and has received funding from the NIH, NSF, and USDA. Additionally, Sinha has co-directed the NIH BD2K Center of Excellence and was a thrust lead at the NSF AI Institute at UIUC. His commitment to education is evident through his leadership in data science education at the Mayo Clinic-University of Illinois Alliance. Furthermore, Sinha served as Program co-Chair for the annual RECOMB Regulatory Systems Genomics conference and was a Board Director for the International Society for Computational Biology during 2018-2021. His contributions to the field have earned him the title of University Scholar at UIUC and recognition as a Fellow of the AIMBE since 2018.

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