Nir Friedman

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name	Nir Friedman
native_name	ניר פרידמן
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fields	Machine Learning and Computational Biology
workplaces	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
alma_mater	Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science, Stanford University
doctoral_advisor	Joseph Halpern
academic_advisors	David Harel, Stuart Russell
notable_students	Dana Pe'er
awards	Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2010), European Research Council Research Award (2009–2014), Juludan Prize (2007), Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize (2007)
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His research combines machine learning and statistical learning with systems biology, specifically in the fields of gene regulation, transcription and chromatin.

Education and research

Friedman earned his BSc degree from Tel Aviv University (1987) and his MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1992). In 1997, he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, in the field of artificial intelligence.

After some postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, he accepted a faculty position at the School of Computer Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His highly cited research includes work on Bayesian network classifiers (with Danny Geiger and Moises Goldszmidt), Bayesian Structural EM, and the use of Bayesian methods to analyzing gene expression data (with Aviv Regev, Dana Pe'er, Eran Segal, Daphne Koller and David Botstein). More recent works focus on Probabilistic Graphical Models, reconstructing Regulatory Networks, Genetic Interactions, and the role of Chromatin in Transcriptional Regulation (with Oliver Rando)

In 2009, Friedman and Koller published a textbook on Probabilistic Graphical Models. Later that year, he joined the Institute of Life Sciences, and opened an experimental lab where he uses advanced robotic tools to study transcriptional regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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References

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10. "Bayesian network classifiers".
11. "The Bayesian structural EM algorithm".
12. (2000). "Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze Expression Data". Journal of Computational Biology.
13. (2003). "Module networks: Identifying regulatory modules and their condition-specific regulators from gene expression data". Nature Genetics.
14. (2004). "Inferring Cellular Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models". Science.
15. (2004). "A module map showing conditional activity of expression modules in cancer". Nature Genetics.
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17. Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman. (2009). "Probabilistic Graphical Models". MIT Press.
18. "The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences".
19. "Robotic Facility".

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