Orr Ashenberg is the Associate Director of Computational Biology at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He leads a group that develops machine learning approaches to understand the molecular drivers of autoimmune disease, cancer, and infectious diseases. He holds a PhD from MIT and an A. B. from Harvard University.
Outside of his primary research, Orr is dedicated to engaging the wider scientific community. He is passionate about science communication and has a history of teaching and mentoring students and fellow researchers. A recent news article mentioned him as the top male finisher in a local half marathon.
Unique fact: He designs public machine learning competitions that have each drawn over 1, 000 participants to tackle complex biological problems, with the results being experimentally tested in the lab.
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