From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery

Dr. Kieran Campbell obtained his DPhil degree from the Oxford University, based on his work on statistical models of latent transcriptome progression in both single‐cell and bulk sequencing experiments. Dr. Campbell is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data Science Institute and Department of Statistics at UBC, and Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer. His research focuses on statistical modelling in cancer genomics, including methodology to integrate distinct modalities of data such as RNA & DNA‐seq, and on automating common analyses such as cell type annotation through scalable, probabilistic methods.