Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems; Associate Professor of Computational and Systems Biology

Dr. Gopalakrishnan is interested in the design and development of computational methods for solving clinically relevant biological problems. She is fundamentally interested in technologies for data mining and discovery that allow incorporation of prior knowledge. For the last decade she has developed and applied novel rule learning methods to biomarker discovery and verification from proteomic profiling studies. Her current research projects involve the development and application of novel variants of rule learning techniques to biomarker discovery and disease prediction for early detection and better understanding of mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative diseases, lung and breast cancers. Methods for incorporating prior knowledge that are being researched in her laboratory include text mining and ontology construction.