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David van Dijk, PhD, MSc, BSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Computer Science
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Yale School of Medicine

300 George Street, 2nd Floor, rm 2312

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

United States

About

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Computer Science

Biography

Dr. David van Dijk is Assistant Professor at Yale Dept. of Internal Medicine and Yale Dept. of Computer Science where he leads a research group that focuses on the cutting-edge application of machine learning methods to big biomedical data. His group develops new algorithms for discovering hidden structure, signals, and patterns in complex high-dimensional and high-throughput data, including single-cell RNA sequencing, microbiome, medical imaging, and electronic health records. His research team comprises trainees from diverse backgrounds, including computer science, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, and neuroscience. Dr. van Dijk completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam and the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he used machine learning to understand how gene regulation is encoded in DNA sequence. As a postdoc at Yale Genetics and Computer Science, he developed machine learning methods for single-cell data that are widely used in the biomedical community.

Website: vandijklab.org

Appointments

Education & Training

Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University (2015)
PhD
University of Amsterdam, Computer Science (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science (2013)
MSc
Free University of Amsterdam, Computer Science (2008)
BSc
Free University of Amsterdam, Computer Science (2005)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Computational Biology; Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Neurosciences; Single-Cell Analysis

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of David van Dijk's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Yale CBB program

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    CBB/BIDS Seminar Series

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    Learning the Language of Biology

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    Learning the language of biology using foundation models for brains and cells

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    Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology

Teaching & Mentoring

Mentoring

  • Emanuele Zappala

    Postdoc
    2022 - 2024
  • Neal Ravindra

    Postdoc
    2019 - 2022
  • Antonio Oliveira Fonseca

    Graduate student
    2019 - 2024

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Yale School of Medicine

300 George Street, 2nd Floor, rm 2312

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

United States