Thomas W. Chittenden

Biography

Dr. Chittenden is the founding director of the WuXi NextCODE Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. This initiative includes a number of deep learning and probabilistic programming projects aimed at furthering scientific understanding of human disease initiation and progression, knowledge that can be directly applied in innovative products for better care and medicine in a range of disease areas. The principal focus of Dr. Chittenden’s work is the development and application of integrated systems biology models to investigate evolutionary factors of human disease. The broad objective is to understand how genetic variation and somatic mutation regulate aberrant gene activity and subsequent disease biology. To this end, Dr. Chittenden spent a year as a Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, where he formulated a general strategy for constructing machine learning models by integrating a priori biological knowledge with multiple types of high-throughput genomic and phenotype data.

Research Interest

 genetic