CHIP is excited to welcome 2 new faculty members to our program! Melissa Haendel, PhD, FACMI, joined UNC as the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics within the School of Medicine in April 2024. In addition to her primary appointment, she has a role of professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and School of Data Science and Society. She joins UNC-CH from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where she led the Translational and Integrative Sciences Lab and was the Chief Research Informatics officer, Marsico endowed chair in data science, and a Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the CU School of Medicine.
Can Chen, PhD is an assistant professor at the School of Data Science and Society with a secondary appointment in the department of mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of California and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Ph.D. degree in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics from the University of Michigan. His research interests span a diverse range of fields, including control theory, network science, tensor algebra, numerical analysis, data science, machine learning, deep learning, hypergraph learning, data analysis and computational biology.
