About me
Research staff member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Gyan Bhanot is a Research Staff Member in the Computational Biology Center (CBC) at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. In addition, he is a Visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, working with Professor Arnold Levine on Modeling Cancer Pathways. He is also Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.
Gyan got his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University in 1979 and worked in the field of modeling and simulations of statistical systems and field theories at Brookhaven National Labs, IAS Princeton, CERN, ITP Santa Barbara and Florida State University before going to Thinking Machines Corporation in 1989 to work on parallel computers and algorithms. In 1994, he joined the Theoretical Physics Division of IBM Research Yorktown and in 1999 switched his group to the CBC.
Since 2000, he has been working in the new field of computational biology. He is currently trying to identify clinically relevant tumor markers for breast cancer. He is also working on evolutionary biology and population genetics. The “Genographic Project” goal of these studies is to track human migration patterns. The more relevant goal is to identify mutations that correlate with disease risk. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Last updated 9 Jun 2006