Manolis Kellis

Manolis Kellis is a professor of computer science at MIT and leads the MIT Computational Biology Group at MIT CSAIL and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

His research uses AI and machine learning to understand the mechanistic basis of human disease, develop therapeutics that reverse disease circuitry, and enable personalized medicine for Alzheimer’s, obesity, cancer, schizophrenia, cardiovascular and immune disorders. He has helped lead large-scale genomics projects including Roadmap Epigenomics, ENCODE and GTEx.