Lior Pachter
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| File:Lior Pachter 2013.jpg
Lior Pachter in 2013
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| Born | May 3, 1973 Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Domino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bonnie Berger |
| Spouse | Ingileif Bryndís Hallgrímsdóttir |
| Children | Three daughters |
Lior Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology; he is also a professor of molecular and cell biology, mathematics, and computer science at Berkeley. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics.[1]
Pachter was born in Israel, and grew up in South Africa.[2] He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994.[1] He completed his doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, supervised by Bonnie Berger,[3] with Eric Lander and Daniel Kleitman as co-advisors.[1] He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1999, and was given the Sackler Chair in 2012.[1]
As well as for his technical contributions, Pachter is known for using new media to promote open science,[4] and for a thought experiment he posted on his blog according to which 'the nearest neighbor to the "perfect human"' is from Puerto Rico.[5][6]
References
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