Prof. Mark Gerstein is a specialist in bioinformatics with a particular interest in large-scale data science, especially as it pertains to personal genome analyses. Current research foci in his lab include disease genomics (particularly neurogenomics and cancer genomics), human genome annotation, genomic privacy, network science (especially gene regulatory networks), wearable and imaging data analysis, and macromolecular simulation. Prof. Gerstein has received awards such as being elected as a fellow of AAAS and the International Society of Computational Biology. He has chaired the analysis groups of numerous national and international projects, including ENCODE, modENCODE, PsychENCODE, 1000 Genomes, PCAWG, ERCC, and SCORCH. Prof. Gerstein completed his PhD training in Computational Chemistry and Biophysics at Cambridge University, followed by postdoctoral training at Stanford.