4:15–5:15 pm
THURSDAY, February 11, 2021, at 4:15 PM via ZOOM
ORLY ALTER, Departments of Bioengineering and Human Genetics and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
"Multi-Tensor Decompositions for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutics in the Clinic"
Bio:
Orly Alter is a Utah Science, Technology, and Research (USTAR) associate professor of bioengineering and human genetics at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, and the principal investigator of a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Physical Sciences in Oncology U01 project grant. Inventor of the “eigengene,” she pioneered the matrix and tensor modeling of large-scale molecular biological data, which, as she demonstrated, can correctly predict previously unknown physical, cellular, and evolutionary mechanisms. Alter received her Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University, and her B.Sc. magna cum laude in physics at Tel Aviv University. Her Ph.D. thesis on "Quantum Measurement of a Single System," which was published by Wiley-Interscience as a book, is recognized today as crucial to the field of gravitational wave detection.
Website:
https://alterlab.org/orly/biography.html
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