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Jian Ma

Jian Ma PhD

Health Informatics
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Jian Ma is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a faculty member in the Computational Biology Department. His lab develops machine learning algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome. During his Ph.D. and postdoc training, he developed algorithms to reconstruct the ancestral mammalian genome. He received an NSF CAREER award, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Computer Science. He leads an NIH 4D Nucleome Center to develop machine learning algorithms to better understand the cell nucleus.
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