Manolis Kellis — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology at MIT and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Head of the Computational Biology Group at MIT and a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
Co-led large-scale genomics projects including the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project, ENCODE, and GTEx.
Authored over 250 journal publications cited more than 190,000 times as of April 2025.
Recipient of the US Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Obtained his Ph.D. from MIT, receiving the Sprowls award for the best doctorate thesis in Computer Science.

Biography

Manolis Kellis is a Professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He directs the MIT Computational Biology Group (compbio.mit.

edu) and is a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT. His research focuses on genomics, human genetics, epigenomics, gene regulation, genome evolution, disease mechanism, and single-cell genomics.