Haverford College

Talk by Gamze Gürsoy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

"Addressing the challenges of precision medicine: privacy,

sharing, and analysis at scale"

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

4:15 pm - Sharpless Auditorium

Abstract: Recent advances in biotechnology and medicine allow us to

collect an immense amount of physiological, contextual, and biological
data at the personalized and population level. This surge in data
gives rise to a paradigm shift in biology and medicine towards data
intensive discoveries. While this provides the perfect opportunity to
study human genetics and disease, it also presents daunting challenges
in maintaining the privacy of patients, secure sharing and movement of
large data, and inferring medically actionable knowledge. My lab aims
to address these challenges by developing scalable computational tools
to overcome privacy concerns associated with sharing and analyzing
omics and clinical data. In this talk, I will discuss an overview of

these tools that are based on various techniques such as machine

federated learning, homomorphic encryption, data sanitization, and blockchain

technology.