Sorin Drăghici is a Romanian-American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and a program director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Previous positions include: Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of Wayne State University's College of Engineering, the Director of the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core at

Karmanos Cancer Institute The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, headquartered in Detroit, is the largest cancer research and provider network in Michigan and has 16 treatment locations. It is one of 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer treatme ...

, and the Director of the James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute. Draghici was elected a Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2022, for contributions to the analysis of high-throughput genomics and proteomics data. He has also been elected a Fellow of th
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
(AAIA).

Career

Draghici is a program director in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is also a Professor in the Department of Computer Science,

College of Engineering Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education (bachelor's and/or master's degree), and any advanced education and specializations that ...

and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the

School of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, MB ...

at Wayne State University. Draghici is also the founder and CEO o
AdvaitaBio

Research

His research area is

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

and

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, in particular GO analysis, pathway analysis, meta-analysis, and

drug repurposing Drug repositioning (also called drug repurposing) involves the investigation of existing drugs for new therapeutic purposes. Repurposing achievements A number of successes have been achieved, the foremost including sildenafil (Viagra) for ere ...

. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Health Institutes and others. He has published over 190 scholarly papers and two technical books: ''Statistics and Data Analysis for Microarrays Using R and Bioconductor'' and ''Data Analysis Tools for DNA Microarrays''. He is an editor for

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics ''IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics'' (abbreviated ''TCBB'') is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IE ...

, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics, ''Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology'', and a senior editor of the ''Discoveries Journal''.

References

External links

Home page
at Wayne State University
Citations
at Google Scholar {{DEFAULTSORT:Draghici, Sorin Wayne State University faculty 21st-century American engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Romanian computer scientists Alumni of the University of St Andrews Romanian expatriates in the United States