Justin Reese
Computational Research Scientist
Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
- Biosystems Data Science
Building: 977, Room 0258
Mail Stop: M/S 977
Phone: (415) 909-9418
justinreese@lbl.gov
Programs & Initiatives
National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
RECOVER
National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in using computational methods to extract actionable knowledge from biomedical and biological data. I am particularly interested in using these methods to address human disease.
My current research focuses on developing performant machine learning algorithms to extract knowledge from biomedical data. This involves for example applying unsupervised machine learning on EHR data for identifying subtypes of human diseases such as long COVID, and constructing and performing graph machine learning on knowledge graphs such as KG-COVID-19 (https://github.com/Knowledge-Graph-Hub/kg-covid-19) and using this knowledge to identify drugs that may have an effect on COVID-19 outcome.
I am also developing and applying epidemiological methods to validate knowledge extracted from computational experiments using EHR and other clinical data, for example describing the effect of metformin on COVID-19 outcome.