Scholar
Ben Raphael
Google Scholar ID: GhvZjJUAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Citations & Impact
Citations
38,087
H-index
57
i10-index
119
Publications
20
Co-authors
16
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024
- Test of Time Award, RECOMB Conference, 2023
- Test of Time, Runner Up, RECOMB Conference, 2022
- Innovator Award, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 2021
- Best Paper, Runner Up, RECOMB Conference, 2021
- Fellow, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 2020
- AACR Team Science Award, 2020
- Best Paper, RECOMB Conference, 2013
- NSF CAREER Award, 2011
- Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology, 2010–2012
Research Experience
- Joined Princeton University as Professor of Computer Science in 2016
- Previously served on the faculty at Brown University in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) for a decade (approx. 2006–2016)
- Directed the CCMB at Brown University from 2013 to 2016
- Associated Faculty at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, and Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
- Affiliate Faculty at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (Columbia University), and New York Genome Center
Background
- Research focuses on the design and application of computational methods to analyze large-scale biological data
- His group employs diverse computational approaches including combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, machine learning, and statistical methods
- Recent research emphases include cancer evolution, network/pathway analysis of genetic variants, and structural variation in human and cancer genomes
- His algorithms have been used in multiple projects from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)
- Co-led the TCGA Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma project and the network analysis in the ICGC Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG)
- Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, with affiliated faculty appointments across multiple interdisciplinary institutes
