Afsaneh M. Nejad
Principal Investigator (PI)
Associate Professor, IMADA, SDU

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I am an associate professor at Data Science and Statistics Section at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) at SDU. I received my PhD degree in Bioinformatics 2021, then started as assistant professor and promotion to associate professor in October 2025. I did my PhD in analysis of high-dimensional omics data which was focused on methodologies and applications for omics association studies and gene regulatory network analyses at SDU. Before my PhD studies, I studied applied mathematics in IMADA (SDU). 

My research focuses on developing and applying computational methods for the analysis of high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and sparse multi-omics data, with a focus on the interpretable integration of multi-omics data, including human-in-the-loop frameworks, network-based approaches, and systems biology to enable domain researchers to understand the biological evidence. Applications include bulk, single-cell, spatial data, multi-omics. Additionally, improving causal inference methodologies with application to health and biological data as well as scalable framework for heritability estimation in multivariate non-Gaussian phenotypes.