Lior Pachter

Lior Pachter
ליאור פאכטר
Lior Pachter in 2013
Born
Lior Samuel Pachter

(1973-05-03) May 3, 1973
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Computer science
Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisDomino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999)
Doctoral advisorBonnie Berger
Doctoral studentsCole Trapnell
Websiteliorpachter.wordpress.com

Lior Samuel Pachter (Hebrew: ליאור שמואל פאכטר) is a computational biologist. He works at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Bren Professor of Computational Biology. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics.