Awarded in 2005
Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Serafim Batzoglou (Computer Science)

Research Title: The ENCODE pilot project

Research Description: Georgios was developing a next-generation whole-genome alignment pipeline in order to harvest the enormous wealth of genomic data that is becoming available, mainly the 12 Dro-sophila genomes and the impending 20 mammalian genomes. He used these alignments to predict putative functional elements based on constraint of evolution. The challenge was not only to identify such elements, but to understand how they act in the context of specific biological systems. He also investigated new high-throughput experimental techniques to study predicted elements during development of the Drosophila embryo.

WHERE IS HE NOW?

Georgios is the Chief Technology Officer at DNAnexus, a Stanford-spawned startup company which sits at the intersection of two of the most ground-breaking fields: cloud computing and genomics.