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Yana Bromberg
Emory University, USA
Dr. Yana Bromberg is a professor in the Depts. of Biology and Computer Science at Emory University.
She joined Emory in 2022, transferring from Rutgers, where she was a professor since 2010.
Yana received her BSc in Biology and BEng in Computer Science from SUNY Stony Brook and her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University.
She is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich, Principal Fellow of the Center for AI Learning at Emory, and a Director and Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
The primary focus of Yana’s research is biological "function.” She is particularly interested in understanding the origins and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that underpins life.
To this end, her lab uses machine learning models. Specifically, Yana asks what aspects of function can be captured by protein and DNA language models and how these models can infer the impact of sequence variants and annotate metagenome functionality.