Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman
Nir Friedman
Fields Machine Learning and Computational Biology
Institutions Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alma mater Tel-Aviv University,Weizmann Institute of Science,Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Joseph Halpern
Other academic advisors David Harel, Stuart Russell
Notable awards Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2010)[1], European Research Council Research Award (2009-2014), Juludan Prize (2007), Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize (2007)[2]

Nir Friedman (born 1967) is an Israeli Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem[3][4]

His research combines Machine Learning and Statistical Learning with Systems Biology, specifically in the fields of Gene Regulation, Transcription and Chromatin.

Education and Research

Friedman earned his B.Sc degree from Tel-Aviv University (1987) and his M.Sc from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1992)[5]. In 1997, he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, in the field of Artificial Intelligence[6].

After some postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, he accepted a faculty position at the School of Computer Science[7], the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His highly-cited research[8][9] includes work on Bayesian network classifiers[10] (with Danny Geiger and Moises Goldszmidt), Bayesian Structural EM[11], and the use of Bayesian methods to analyzing gene expression data[12][13][14][15] (with Aviv Regev, Dana Peer, Eran Segal, Daphne Koller and David Botstein). More recent works focus on Probabilistic Graphical Models, reconstructing Regulatory Networks, Genetic Interactions, and the role of Chromatin in Transcriptional Regulation (with Oliver Rando)[16]

In 2009, Friedman and Koller published a textbook on Probabilistic Graphical Models[17]. Later that year, he joined the Institute of Life Sciences[18], and opened an experimental lab where he uses advanced robotic tools to study transcriptional regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae[19].

References

  1. ^ http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/recipient/nir-friedman
  2. ^ http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=62988 Jerusalem Post on Friedman's prize
  3. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nir Nir Friedman's homepage at the Hebrew University
  4. ^ http://systemsbio.cs.huji.ac.il/Friedmans_Lab/Home.html Nir Friedman's lab at the Hebrew University
  5. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nir/resume.pdf Nir Friedman's CV
  6. ^ http://www-robotics.stanford.edu/~nir/Abstracts/Thesis.html Nir Friedman's PhD Dissertation from Stanford
  7. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il The School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  8. ^ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=nir+friedman List of publications from Google Scholar
  9. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Friedman%20N%22%5BAU%5D List of publications from PubMed
  10. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nir/Abstracts/FrGG1.html Bayesian network classifiers (1997) Machine Learning
  11. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nir/Abstracts/Fr2.html The Bayesian structural EM algorithm (1998) UAI
  12. ^ Friedman, N.; Linial, M.; Nachman, I.; Pe'er, D. (2000). "Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze Expression Data". Journal of Computational Biology 7 (3–4): 601–620. doi:10.1089/106652700750050961. PMID 11108481.  edit
  13. ^ Segal, E.; Shapira, M.; Regev, A.; Pe'er, D.; Botstein, D.; Koller, D.; Friedman, N. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics 34 (2): 166–176. doi:10.1038/ng1165. PMID 12740579.  edit
  14. ^ Friedman, N. (2004). "Inferring Cellular Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models". Science 303 (5659): 799–805. doi:10.1126/science.1094068. PMID 14764868.  edit
  15. ^ Segal, E.; Friedman, N.; Koller, D.; Regev, A. (2004). "A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer". Nature Genetics 36 (10): 1090–1098. doi:10.1038/ng1434. PMID 15448693.  edit
  16. ^ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nir/publications-area.html Publications of Nir Friedman
  17. ^ Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman (2009). Probabilistic Graphical Models. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-01319-3. 
  18. ^ http://bio.huji.ac.il/eng The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  19. ^ http://systemsbio.cs.huji.ac.il/Friedmans_Lab/Robotic_Facility.html Friedman Lab Robotic Facility

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