Bijan Mazaheri

Overview

Professor Bijan Mazaheri's work is currently focused on solving new problems that lie within biological and health data using methods from causal inference. He is more broadly interested in the task of combining data and knowledge from multiple places, topics, and modalities. Bijan is also an internationally competitive distance runner and enjoys applying his research to sports analytics.

Research Interests

Causal inference; data integration; mixture models; machine learning; biological datasets

Education

• BA, Physics and Computer Science, Williams College 2016
• PhD, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology 2023

Awards

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Amazon AI4Science Fellowship
• Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow
• Herchel Smith Fellowship

Professional Activities

• Creator, LACCTiC
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard