He is a multi-disciplinary researcher with cross-appointments in the Departments of Computer Science, Engineering, and Molecular Genetics. He founded his lab in 2005 after having received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003. His doctoral training was in machine learning and computational neuroscience under the supervision of Peter Dayan (with some help from Geoffrey Hinton) at MIT and the Gatsby Unit at University College London. His undergraduate training was in computer science and biology at the University of Toronto. His lab uses statistical learning to make biological discoveries. He is currently interested in post-transcriptional regulation, automated prediction of gene function (see http://www.genemania.org), and understanding cancer and other complex diseases using genomics.