Jason Ernst
Summary
Jason joined the faculty at UCLA in the Department of Biological Chemistry, the Computer Science Department, and the Bioinformatics Program in 2012. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Manolis Kellis' Computational Biology Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and affiliated with the Broad Institute. In 2008, Jason completed a PhD advised by Ziv Bar-Joseph where he was part of the Systems Biology Group, Machine Learning Department, and School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jason also earned BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park. He is a member of the editorial board at Genome Research and has been a program co-chair for the ISMB Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group (RegGenSIG) meeting. He is a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Siebel Scholarship, and a Goldwater Scholarship.
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