Dr. Serdar Bozdag received his BS degree in Computer Engineering at Marmara University and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside. After a postdoctoral fellowship in National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, in 2012, he joined Marquette University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. In 2015, he received the Way Klingler Young Scholar Award. In 2019, he received the NIH's prestigious Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA), a 5-year single-PI research grant. In 2020, he joined UNT as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Mathematics with an affiliation with the BioDiscovery Institute. In 2024, he established the Center for Computational Life Sciences and is currently the Founding Director.
Dr. Bozdag has served as a Program Committee member in several bioinformatics and machine learning conferences including ISMB, ACM-BCB, BIBM, KDD, and SDM. He is in the steering committee of the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference. He is an editorial board member of Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, and Cancer Informatics journals. He has been co-organizing annual International Workshop on High Performance Computing, Big Data Analytics and Integration for Multi-Omics Biomedical Data since 2020. Dr. Bozdag's research goal is to develop open source integrative computational tools to analyze high dimensional biological, clinical and environmental exposure datasets to infer context-specific gene regulatory interactions and modules, and to predict disease associated genes and patient-specific drug response.