Olga Troyanskaya

Olga Troyanskaya
Olga Troyanskaya speaking at ISMB 2010
Born	Olga G. Troyanskaya
Fields	Bioinformatics Genomics Machine learning Computational biology[1]
Institutions	Princeton University Stanford University University of Richmond
Alma mater	University of Richmond (BSc) Stanford University (PhD)
Thesis	Improving the specificity of biological signal detection from microarray data
Doctoral advisor	Russ Altman David Botstein[2][3]
Doctoral students	Curtis Huttenhower[4][5]
Notable awards	Overton Prize (2011)[2]
Website reducio.princeton.edu/cm/node/13

Olga G. Troyanskaya is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University and the Deputy Director for Genomics at the Simons Center for Data Analysis at the Simons Foundation in NYC.^[6][7] She studies protein function and interactions in biological pathways by analyzing genomic data using computational tools.^{[1][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Education

Troyanskaya completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Biology at the University of Richmond in 1999 and her Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University in 2003.^[2][3][14]

Awards

In 2011, she was awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology.^[15] In 2014, she was awarded the Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetics Society of America.^[16]

References

1. Olga Troyanskaya's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
2. Mullins, J.; Morrison Mckay, B. (2011). "International Society for Computational Biology Honors Michael Ashburner and Olga Troyanskaya with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2011". PLoS Computational Biology 7 (6): e1002081. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002081. PMC 3107244.
3. Troyanskaya, Olga (2003). Improving the specificity of biological signal detection from microarray data (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
4. Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E. (2015). "2015 ISCB Overton Prize Awarded to Curtis Huttenhower". PLOS Computational Biology 11 (6): e1004319. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004319. ISSN 1553-7358. PMID 26067840.
5. Huttenhower, Curtis (2009). Analysis of large genomic data collections (PhD thesis). Princeton University. OCLC 298182845.
6. http://imperio.princeton.edu/cm/node/13 Olga Troyanskaya
7. http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=243 Princeton University Olga Troyanskaya
8. Troyanskaya, O. G.; Dolinski, K.; Owen, A. B.; Altman, R. B.; Botstein, D. (2003). "A Bayesian framework for combining heterogeneous data sources for gene function prediction (in Saccharomyces cerevisiae)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (14): 8348–8353. doi:10.1073/pnas.0832373100.
9. Troyanskaya, O.; Cantor, M.; Sherlock, G.; Brown, P.; Hastie, T.; Tibshirani, R.; Botstein, D.; Altman, R. (2001). "Missing value estimation methods for DNA microarrays". Bioinformatics 17 (6): 520–525. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.6.520. PMID 11395428.
10. Garber, M. E.; Troyanskaya, O. G.; Schluens, K.; Petersen, S.; Thaesler, Z.; Pacyna-Gengelbach, M.; Van De Rijn, M.; Rosen, G. D.; Perou, C. M.; Whyte, R. I.; Altman, R. B.; Brown, P. O.; Botstein, D.; Petersen, I. (2001). "Diversity of gene expression in adenocarcinoma of the lung". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (24): 13784–13789. Bibcode:2001PNAS...9813784G. doi:10.1073/pnas.241500798.
11. Olga Troyanskaya's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
12. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
13. Olga Troyanskaya's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
14. http://reducio.princeton.edu/cm/sites/default/files/troyanskaya_cv_4_12_web.pdf Olga Troyanskaya CV
15. "Overton Prize winners".
16. "Yeast Genetics Meeting 2014".