Jian Ma
Ray And Stephanie Lane Professor Of Computational Biology
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJian Ma is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the newly launched Center for AI-Driven Biomedical Research (AI4BIO), specializing in AI/ML methods to decode genome structure, nuclear organization, and spatial single-cell omics. With a background from Fudan and a PhD from Penn State, he combines probabilistic modeling and deep learning to translate complex molecular interactions into testable biological hypotheses and is exploring large language models to read the “language of cells.” An NSF CAREER awardee and Guggenheim Fellow who is also an elected AIMBE and AAAS Fellow, Jian bridges rigorous computational theory with experimental collaboration and serves on advisory boards such as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago. Beyond publications and awards, he has a track record of building interdisciplinary centers and steering major conferences (RECOMB), signaling leadership in shaping the future of AI-driven biomedical discovery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. M.S. Computer Science, B.S. M.S. Computer Science at Fudan UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (9)
genomes7
genome7
bioinformatics6
hypergraph6
genomics4
spatial-transcriptomics4
machine-learning2
transcriptomics2
spatial2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ma-compbio/PSAR-Align
May 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 6 months
ma-compbio/PSAR
May 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 6 months
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