Speaker Profile
Ph.D., CEO, Lifebit
Biography
Maria is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing (HPC). She is also a passionate entrepreneur. She has already founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and the Techstars-backed Lifebit. As a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, Spain, she designed and deployed tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was also part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data. Dr. Chatzou is a frequent industry speaker and has spoken on the subject of HPC, Cloud & Big Data, Genomics Workflows, Personalized Medicine, Women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups and Deep Tech Innovation in many international conferences.
AI and Data Science: Lifebit
Lifebit is democratising muti-omics, biomedicine & big data analysis with its AI-powered cloud-based system.
How AI is Powering Genomics and Personalised Medicine
Application of different AI and ML approaches are currently radically changing the way we analyse and extract insights from genomics and personalised medicine data for the better. During this talk, I will present the main applications of these approaches.
