Maxwell W. Libbrecht

Maxwell Libbrecht is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on developing machine learning methods applied to high-throughput genomics data sets. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Washington, advised by Bill Noble and Jeff Bilmes, and his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, advised by Serafim Batzoglou. He is a 2021 Michael Smith Foundation Scholar. He was the first author of a paper named one of ISCB’s Top 10 Regulatory and Systems Genomics papers of 2015.