Olga Troyanskaya

Olga Troyanskaya
Olga Troyanskaya speaking at ISMB 2010
Born	Olga G. Troyanskaya
Fields	Bioinformatics Genomics Machine learning Computational biology
Institutions	Princeton University Stanford University University of Richmond
Alma mater	University of Richmond (BSc) Stanford University (PhD)
Thesis	Improving the specificity of biological signal detection from microarray data
Doctoral advisor	Russ Altman David Botstein
Doctoral students	Curtis Huttenhower
Notable awards	Overton Prize (2011)
Website function.princeton.edu

Olga G. Troyanskaya is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University and the Deputy Director for Genomics at the Simons Center for Data Analysis at the Simons Foundation in NYC. She studies protein function and interactions in biological pathways by analyzing genomic data using computational tools.

Troyanskaya completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Biology at the University of Richmond in 1999 and her Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University in 2003.

In 2011, she was awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). In 2014, she was awarded the Ira Herskowitz Award from the Genetics Society of America. In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB.