Barbara Engelhardt
Barbara Engelhardt | |
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| Born | Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (BS, MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistical genetics Bayesian statistics Machine learning Statistical inference Genomics |
| Institutions | Princeton University Chicago University Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Thesis | Predicting protein molecular function (2007) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael I. Jordan |
| Website | www |
Barbara Elizabeth Engelhardt is an American computer scientist and specialist in bioinformatics. Working as a Professor at Stanford University, her work has focused on latent variable models, exploratory data analysis for genomic data, and QTLs. In 2021, she was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology.