Overview
Dr. Gamze Gürsoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and a Core Member at the New York Genome Center. She is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Holding the Herbert Irving Assistant Professorship, Dr. Gürsoy’s work spans biomedical informatics and computational sciences.
Before joining Columbia, she worked under Dr. Mark Gerstein as a K99/R00 postdoctoral fellow in Yale University's Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program. Dr. Gürsoy earned her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, supervised by Dr. Jie Liang, and completed her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Bo?aziçi University in Istanbul.
Her research group focuses on developing privacy-preserving analytical tools for large-scale omics data to explore disease and phenotypic correlations. This includes creating software, file formats, and data pipelines for secure sharing and public analysis of sensitive genetic and phenotypic data.
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Gender
- Female
Research
Research Interests:
- Epigenetics
- 3D genome
- Bioinformatics
- Clinical informatics
- Machine learning
- Patient privacy