Aleksandr Sahakyan

Alex is a senior researcher focused on integrative computational biology and machine learning in the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Radcliffe Department of Medicine. In past, he did his undergraduate studies in pharmaceutical sciences while actively researching in the areas of quantum/structural chemistry and NMR spectroscopy. He next moved to the University of Cambridge, first obtaining an MPhil degree in computational biology with distinction (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, supported by Cambridge Trust), followed by a PhD in theoretical chemical biology (Department of Chemistry) as a Herchel Smith Scholar. He then became an interdisciplinary research fellow in computational genomics and epigenetics (Department of Chemistry and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute). Alex joined the University of Oxford in 2017, when he started to lead a group in Integrative Computational Biology and Machine Learning as a principal investigator. He supervised multiple DPhil and post-doctoral trainees and summer interns, many getting notable awards. His research aims at combining machine learning, computational biology, computational chemistry with experimental data from genomics and biophysical techniques, to reach a new level of precision in biology, at both genome and proteome levels.