Amirali Kia
Illumina Inc., USA
Biography
Amirali Kia has completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s working on the application of various artifi cial intelligence algorithms in computational fl uid mechanics. He then started his PhD at Stanford University where his focus was on high performance computing and developing fast algorithms with applications in computational biology. He started his career at Illumina by joining Protein Engineering group to apply machine learning algorithms to enzyme engineering. He is now a senior manager at Illumina in the Computational and Applied Biology Department, leading Deep Learning group. The focus of his team is to bring new AI algorithms to genomics and Illumina’s internal technology.
Abstract
Abstract : Engineering Tn5 transposase enzyme to improve DNA sequencing library preparation