Committees
Organizing committee
Joaquín Dopazo
Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, and
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain
Diane Kovats
International Society for Computational Biology, USA.
Boku University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Paweł P Łabaj
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, and
Boku University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Weida Tong
FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, USA
Wenzhong Xiao
Stanford Genome Technology Center, and
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Local organizer
Jesse Shapiro
School of Biomedical Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Challenges committees
The Synthetic Clinical Health Records Challenge
Francisco Ortuño (Curro)
Carlos Loucera
Joaquin Dopazo
Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health-FPS, and
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/University of Sevilla, Seville, Spain
The Anti-Microbial Resistance Prediction Challenge
Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, U.K.
Paweł Łabaj
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
The Gut Microbiome based Health Index Challenge
Kinga Zielińska
Paweł Łabaj
Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Scientific committee
Tim Beißbarth
Statistical Bioinformatics
University Medical Center Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Daniel Berrar
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
Yana Bromberg
Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Germany
and
Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA
Djork-Arné Clevert
Pfizer
Head of Machine Learning Research, Vice President
Berlin, Germany
Susmita Datta
Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA
Joaquin Dopazo
Fundación Progreso y Salud
(Andalusian Ministry of Health),
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío
Seville, Spain
Eran Elhaik
Department of Animal & Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, U.K.
Sepp Hochreiter
Institute of Machine Learning
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Linz, Austria
David P. Kreil
Chair of Bioinformatics
Boku University Vienna
Austria
Wolfgang Huber
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
Simon M. Lin
Chief Research Information Officer
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH USA
Yves Moreau
K.U. Leuven
ESAT-SCD (Bioinformatics)
Leuven, Belgium
Maria Peña
Fundación Progreso y Salud
(Andalusian Ministry of Health),
University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
Ziv Shkedy
Center of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics
University Hasselt
Hasselt/Leuven, Belgium
Shraddha Thakkar
FDA National Center for Toxicological Research
Jefferson, USA
Armand Valsesia
Genetics Group
Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences
Lausanne, Switzerland
Wenzhong Xiao
Immuno-Metabolic Computational Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
and
Computational Genomics lab, Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford CA, USA
Julie Zhu
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA
