Noga Aharony

Noga Aharony is a PhD candidate in the AlQuraishi Lab at Columbia University's Department of Systems Biology in New York. She holds a B.Sc. in Neuroscience from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Biology from the Technion Institute, where she was in the Kishony Lab and received the Gutwirth Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Research for using genomic approaches and big data to study how bacterial pathogens evolve during recurring infections. Her doctoral research focuses on developing foundational genome language models using machine learning architectures derived from state space models, with the goal of annotating unknown DNA sequences and enabling whole-genome generation for synthetic biology applications. She has been engaged in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness work since 2018, co-authoring a 2023 paper on policy considerations for widespread metagenomic biosurveillance published in Health Security. She is a recipient of Open Philanthropy Early Career Funding for global catastrophic biological risk work, and has also received LTFF grant support for part-time work buyout and equipment to develop computational techniques for novel pathogen detection.

No endorsements yet.

Personal Website

https://noga.science/

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Twitter / X

Twitter

LessWrong

-

EA Forum

-