Azim Dehghani Amirabad

Azim Dehghani Amirabad

Principal AI Scientist at J&J, previously Postdoc @MIT, Ph.D. @Max Planck

About me

I am an AI scientist (Machine Learning & Bioinformatics) by education. My main focus is on the problems at the interface of Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics. I develop and use state of the art deep learning and machine learning algorithms to learn, infer and predict the regulatory circuitry in biological systems. Previously, I’ve developed systems biology models and machine learning algorithms to model and analyze complex genomic data.


Short Bio

I am currently a principal Artificial Intelligence scientist at J&J working on AI/ML for single cell omics/target ID applications. I received a master’s in Bioinformatics from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University in Germany. I did my PhD with the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. While at Max Planck, I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Marcel Schulz. I was also a visiting student at Prof. Ernest Fraenkel’s lab. From April 2019 - February 2021, I was a postdoctoral research associate at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) under the supervision of Prof. Manolis Kellis. In my spare time, I play soccer and go hiking. My favorite soccer player is Cristiano Ronaldo.

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