Brief Bio

Professor Derek Aguiar is an associate professor in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut. Professor Aguiar graduated from the University of Rhode Island with B.S. degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University, advised by Professor Sorin Istrail, and completed his postdoctoral work at Princeton University with Professor Barbara Engelhardt. Dr. Aguiar's research aims to develop probabilistic machine learning models, combinatorial algorithms, and scalable inference methods to better understand high-dimensional data, particularly genomics and genetics data applied to complex disease.

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