He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in January 2006, and his B.Sc. from the National Technical University of Athens in 1998. Dr. Tsirigos' research focus is primarily in computational genomics and involves the design of statistical/computational methods and pipelines to model biological systems and generate novel biological hypotheses. Dr. Tsirigos is a member of Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Genome Technology Center, and is affiliated with Center of Health Informatics and Bioinformatics.