Farzaneh Khajouei, Ph.D.

Farzaneh Khajouei is a senior computational scientist and the computational lead of pipeline development in the Data Sciences Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She works on developing and implementing computational pipelines for analyzing large-scale genomic data, with a focus on single-cell genomics. Her group develops novel methods and designs efficient pipeline architectures for new assays from single cell genomics data. These designs must overcome significant computational challenges due to the large amount of data that must be processed and analyzed — hundreds of gigabytes of sequencing data per sample and thousands of samples per assay. These assays come from consortiums such as the Human Cell Atlas, MalariaGen, BICCN, and the Brain Initiative Cell Atlas Network.

Khajouei joined Broad in April 2020 after receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she worked on mathematical and statistical modeling of gene expression data and regulatory genomics. She also holds a master’s degree in mathematics from UIUC, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University, Iran.