GHGA Lecture Series: Gunnar Rätsch (virtual)
- 21 Jan 2026
Gunnar Rätsch from ETH Zürich will talk about “MetaGraph and its application to collections of human sequencing data” at the GHGA lecture series "Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine" on January 21, 2026.
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Biography:
Data scientist Gunnar Rätsch develops and applies advanced data analysis and modeling techniques to data from deep molecular profiling, medical and health records, as well as images.
He earned his Ph.D. at the German National Laboratory for Information Technology under supervision of Klaus-Robert Müller and was a postdoc with Bob Williamson and Bernhard Schölkopf. He received the Max Planck Young and Independent Investigator award and was leading the group on Machine Learning in Genome Biology at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen (2005-2011). In 2012, he joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as Associate Faculty. In May 2016, he and his lab moved to Zürich to join the Computer Science Department of ETH Zürich.