Denis C. Bauer BSc, PhD

Dr. Denis Bauer is the team leader of the transformational bioinformatics team at Australia’s research agency, CSIRO. She has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Queensland and held Post-doctoral appointments in biological machine learning at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and high-throughput genetics at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Her machine learning solutions for processing genomic and genome engineering Big Data efficiently have been featured in Blogs (AWS Jeff Barr, Databricks), as well as the international press (GenomeWeb, CIO magazine) and, was included in ComputerWeekly’s “Top 10 IT stories of 2017”.

She presented the Keynotes at YOW! 2017 (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane 500 attendees each), AgileIndia 2018 (1500 attendees) and AI Dev Days 2018 (300 attendees) and is involved in national and international initiatives tasked to include genomic information into medical practice, funded with $200M in AU. She has 31 peer-reviewed publications (14 as first or senior author) with 7 in journals of IF8 (e.g. Nat Genet.) and H-index 12. To date, she has attracted more than $6.5Million in funding as Chief Investigator.