Regular biography
Olga Troyanskaya is a Professor of Computer Science Research at Princeton University, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. She has been on the faculty since 2003 and is the director of Princeton Precision Health. She is also affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute. Troyanskaya holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University and has been recognized with several awards, including the Sloan Research Fellowship and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Her research focuses on computational biology and genomics.
Scholar-generated biography
Olga Troyanskaya is a researcher at Princeton University and the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, specializing in bioinformatics, genomics, machine learning, and computational biology. Her work focuses on understanding genetic interactions, gene function prediction, and the impact of noncoding variants on gene expression and disease risk. She has developed methods for missing value estimation in DNA microarrays and applied deep learning to predict variant effects on expression and disease risk. Her research also explores the genetic basis of complex diseases such as autism spectrum disorder and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Troyanskaya's contributions span from yeast genetics to human diseases, emphasizing the integration of computational approaches with biological data.