Alexander Alekseyenko

Alexander Alekseyenko, Ph.D.


Professor
Public Health Sciences
Cancer Focus

Panomics, unique individual factors, and data science in cancer related health outcomes

Research Interest

My area of expertise is in quantitative modeling and integrating human health data with heterogeneous panomic scale data using a translational bioinformatics toolset. I build and apply novel methods for analysis of data from novel high-throughput platforms to address new types of biological questions that these platforms enable. Moreover, as the Founding Director of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Program for Human Microbiome Research, which serves as a central hub for resources related to microbiome research on campus, I am developing novel approaches to launch and conduct population-scale microbiome studies as well as studies that characterize microbiomes in natural environments.

Positions and Scientific Appointments

2020-Present: Professor, Dept of Public Health Sciences, Dept of Oral Health Sciences, and Dept of Healthcare Leadership and Management, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, SC 2019-Present: Co-Lead, Quantitative Methods Shared Resource, South Carolina Cancer Disparities Research Center, MUSC 2017-2022: Graduate Director, Clemson-MUSC Biomedical Data Science and Informatics 2016-Present: Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept Public Health Sci, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 2016-2019: Associate Professor, Dept of Healthcare Leadership and Management, MUSC 2015-Present: Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 2015-Present: Founding Director, Program for Human Microbiome Research, MUSC, Charleston, SC 2015-2019: Associate Professor, Dept of Public Health Sciences and Dept of Oral Health Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC 2014-2015: Secondary appointment, Dept of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 2014-2015: Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine, Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 2011-2015: Director, Microbiomics Informatics Lab, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 2009-2014: Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, Division of Translational Medicine, Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Education

Postdoc
June 2009
Statistics
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Postdoc
December 2008
Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
PhD
May 2008
Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
MS
December 2003
Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
BS
August 2002
Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH