Biography
Eytan Ruppin has served as a professor of Computer Science Medicine since 1995, conducting computational multidisciplinary research spanning computational neuroscience, natural language processing, machine learning and systems biology. In 2014, he joined the University of Maryland as director of its Center for Cioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB). In 2018, he moved to the NCI where he founded and is chief of its Cancer Data Science Lab (CDSL). His research is focused on developing new computational approaches for advancing transcriptomics-based precision oncology. Eytan is a member of the editorial board of Molecular Systems Biology, a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), a recipient of the NCI Director award and the Delano awards and is a co-founder of a few precision medicine startup companies.