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Tomer ​Altman, PhD

Lecturer, Biostatistics

Biography

Tomer Altman is a Lecturer in the Biostatistics Division of the School of Public Health, and in the College of Chemistry. He is also the Principal at Altman Analytics LLC, a data science and bioinformatics consulting practice. His research interests are in diagnostics & therapeutics development, Boolean Implications in association analysis, and in biological sequence embeddings using Deep Neural Networks.

He completed his doctoral degree at the Biomedical Informatics program at Stanford Medical School, with a focus on data mining and modeling of the human gut microbiome. His current research interests are in diagnostics & therapeutics development, Boolean Implications in association analysis, and in biological sequence embeddings using Deep Neural Networks.

Research Interests

  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • PhD – Biomedical Informatics
    Stanford University School of Medicine, 2015
  • MS – Biomedical Informatics
    Stanford University School of Medicine, 2012
  • BS – Bioengineering
    University of California, Berkeley, 2003

Publications

Courses Taught

    • PH 142
    • Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biology and Public Health