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Gustavo Stolovitzky

Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine-American[1] computational systems biologist. He was the CSO of Sema4 and then of GeneDx until December 2023. Between 1998 and 2021 he was a researcher and executive at IBM Research. At IBM he served in several roles including founding chair of the Exploratory Life Sciences Council and director of the Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program at IBM Research. From 2013 to 2018 he was Adjunct professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and from 2007 he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. His research has been cited more than 29,000 times[2][3]

Stolovitzky is a co-founder of the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM). DREAM is an international collaborative effort that leverages crowdsourcing to recognize effective methods in biomedicine and consists of more than 15,000 participants.[4][5] Stolovitzky won the IBM Fellow award for pioneering the use of crowdsourcing for research in computational biology.[6]

Career

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Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1994. In 1998, Stolovitzky joined IBM Research to work in the field of computational systems biology; he has since become the director of IBM's Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program.[7][better source needed] He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University[8] and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University.[citation needed] In 2005, Stolovitzky and Jared Roach developed sophisticated methods for the analysis of Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing (MPSS) data.[9] In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.[10]

Solovitztky has advocated the usage of crowdsourcing as a tool for scientific research.[11]

Recognition

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Stolovitzky has received the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC)'s Pioneer Award for Great Minds in STEM[12][non-primary source needed] and the World Technology Award in Biotechnology in 2013,[13][non-primary source needed] and the Raíces Prize from the Argentinian government in 2017.[14][15] Stolovitzky is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology[citation needed] and has been inducted as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences,[16] Fellow of the World Technology Network,[17][non-primary source needed] Fellow of the American Physical Society,[18] and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[19]

In 2019, Stolovitzky was appointed as an IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor IBM bestows to its employees.[1][20]

In 2021, Stolovitzky was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.[21]

Family

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Stolovitzky resides in the Northeastern United States with his family.[22]

History

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Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in physics (with honors) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1994. He later explained that during a visit he paid to a friend studying in Yale, he met with K.R. Sreenivasan, who "called the provost and asked if he could add me as a PhD student, even though I hadn't formally applied to Yale and all the deadlines had already passed."[6] He did his postdoctorate at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University, following which he joined IBM Research in 1998.[5]

Titles and awards

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Among others, Gustavo has received the following awards and titles:[5][22][23]

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gustavo Stolovitzky". IBM. 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  2. ^ "Loop | Gustavo Stolovitzky". loop.frontiersin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  3. ^ "G Stolovitzky - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  4. ^ "Gustavo Stolovitzky | Columbia University Department of Systems Biology". systemsbiology.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  5. ^ a b c "Gustavo A. Stolovitzky - IBM". researcher.watson.ibm.com. 2016-07-25. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  6. ^ a b "2019 IBM Fellow Gustavo Stolovitzky". 2019 IBM Fellow Gustavo Stolovitzky. 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  7. ^ "Translational Systems Biology and Nanotechnology Group". IBM Research Groups. September 9, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "Gustavo Stolovitzky". Columbia University Department of Systems Biology. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  9. ^ Yegnasubramanian, Srinivasan (September 2, 2010). Modern Molecular Biology: Approaches for Unbiased Discovery in Cancer Research. Springer New York. p. 102. ISBN 9780387697451.
  10. ^ "Gustavo A. Stolovitzky". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  11. ^ Baker, Monya (August 2012). "The author file: Gustavo Stolovitzky" (PDF). Nature Methods. 9 (8): 767. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2113. PMID 23019684.
  12. ^ "2013 HENAAC Award Winners". Great Minds in STEM. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  13. ^ "The 2013 World Technology Award Finalists". The World Technology Network. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  14. ^ "Premiados 2017". Argentina.gob.ar. 29 April 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  15. ^ "Entregaron los premios RAÍCES y Luis Federico Leloir". El 1 Digital (in Spanish). November 17, 2017.
  16. ^ "Honorary Members and Academy Fellows". The New York Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  17. ^ "Members". The World Technology Network. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  18. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS Physics. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  19. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. January 11, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  20. ^ "IBM Fellows". IBM. 13 April 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  21. ^ "March 02, 2021: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2021 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  22. ^ a b "Gustavo A. Stolovitzky". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  23. ^ "Gustavo Stolovitzky" (PDF). Nature Methods. 9. August 2012.
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