Zoe Piran
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Genentech Research & Early Development, and Stanford Computer Science.
piranz [at] gene.com | zoep [at] cs.stanford.edu
I recently started my postdoc at Genentech and Stanford, hosted by Aviv Regev, and Jure Leskovec. I intend to develop tools which will provide a deeper biological understanding by merging advancements in single-cell genomics and machine learning.
I did my PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Mor Nitzan, where my research focused on decoding cellular identities in single-cell data to explore axes of biological variation. I developed computational frameworks to disentangle and reconstruct the multifaceted nature of cellular identity by filtering known biological signals and applying semi-supervised disentanglement methods.
I finished my MSc in Physics in 2020 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem advised by Naftali Tishby and Zohar Ringel. My thesis was at the interface between information theory and statistical mechanics suggesting a technique for dimensionality reduction. Previously I received my BSc, double major in Physics and Computer Science, from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018.