Yakir Reshef 1stnamelastinitial at broadinstitute.org

I'm an MD/PhD computer scientist interested in the immune system. I'm currently a fellow in rheumatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. My research focuses on developing quantitative methods for characterizing immune state from high-dimensional molecular data.

In 2020, I completed an MD at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I wrote my MD thesis with Soumya Raychaudhuri on analysis of single-cell data.

In 2018, I completed a PhD in computer science at Harvard University, advised by Ryan Adams and Michael Mitzenmacher and working on problems in statistics, machine learning, and statistical genetics. I also collaborated closely with Alkes Price and Pardis Sabeti.

In 2011, I was a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Applied Math and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

In 2009, I graduated from Harvard College with a BA in mathematics. I wrote my BA thesis on pseudorandomness with Salil Vadhan.

Selected publications (full list on Google Scholar)

Funding

I'm grateful for prior funding from the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program, the PD Soros foundation, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship, and the United States Fulbright Program.