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Pierre Baldi, PhD
Chancellor's Professor, Computer Science-Systems, UC Irvine
Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, UC Irvine
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| Current PI funding: NIH/NLM (T15-LM07443), Biomedical Informatics Training Program (2002-2012)
NSF (IIS-0513376), Mining structured data: Applications in biology (2005-2009)
NSF (IIS-0514810), Characterizing Bayesian surprise in humans (2005-2008) |
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| Mentoring: Recipient of the 2006 Chancellor's Professor at UC Irvine Award, Dr. Baldi is a central participant in UC Irvine's Biomedical Informatics Training (BIT) program. One of only 18 such programs in the country, the NIH awarded the BIT program $5.6 million over five years to train students in the application of advanced computer and information technologies in the biological and medical sciences. As part of this program, Dr. Baldi mentors students from the Schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Information and Computer Sciences, and Engineering. Dr. Baldi has 12 current and 25 prior trainees, including Dr. Michael Sweredoski, a Research Scientist in Bioinformatics at Caltech. |
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| Research: As director of UC Irvine's Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB), Dr. Baldi conducts research across all areas of biomedical informatics, with particular emphasis in functional genomics, structural genomics, systems biology, and drug discovery. His translational research includes developing machine learning and other statistical methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and large-scale data analysis, computational screening, new drug design and chemical interactions, and modeling and understanding metabolic, signaling, and regulatory networks (systems biology). Among other distinctions, Dr. Baldi received the 1999 Laurel Wilkening Faculty Innovation Award (UC Irvine) and the 2007 Microsoft Research Award. |
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