Bo Wang
Assistant Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology and Department of Computer Science
Bo Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine’s Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology and the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Computer Science. He also holds a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute.
Wang’s PhD work covers statistical methods for solving problems in computational biology with an emphasis on integrative cancer analysis and single-cell analysis. His long-term research goal is to develop integrative and interpretable machine learning algorithms that can help clinicians with predictive models and decision support to tailor patients’ care to their unique clinical and genomic traits.
Wang obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and has extensive industrial research experience at many leading companies such as Illumina and Genentech.