Biography

Bo Wang is an assistant professor at Dept. of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto. He leads the AI team for Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC) at University Health Network (UHN). He is also a CIFAR AI Chair at Vector Institute, Toronto.

Bo obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, and has extensive industrial research experience at many leading companies such as Illumina and Genentech. His PhD work covers statistical methods for solving problems in computational biology with an emphasis on integrative cancer analysis and single-cell analysis.

Bo Wang’s long-term research goals aim to develop integrative and interpretable machine learning algorithms that can help clinicians with predictive models and decision support to tailor patients’ care to their unique clinical and genomic traits.