Andrey Ptitsyn has over three decades of academic and industry experience in building the infrastructure, services, and research programs in Computational Biosciences. Ptitsyn is a computational generalist with a special interest in Algorithms, Big Data Analytics, HPC, AI, ML and applications in interdisciplinary research. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia with a Master of Science degree in Mathematical Biology and the University of Western Cape in South Africa with PhD in Bioinformatics in 2001.
Ptitsyn has published over 50 peer-reviewed research papers with over 4000 total citations. His current research interests include the development of novel approaches in AI to infer functional patterns in large-scale heterogeneous data, including personal genomes, multi-omics, insurance claims and electronic health records.