Rebecca Boiarsky

Rebecca Boiarsky

PhD Student in EECS at MIT

MIT

Broad Institute

Biography

Hello! I’m a final-year year PhD student in EECS at MIT, co-advised by David Sontag in MIT CSAIL and Gaddy Getz at the Broad Institute. I develop machine learning tools to better understand health and disease. My main focus is on understanding and leveraging RNA-sequencing data, especially to improve precision medicine in cancer. My main interests include deep representation learning and generative models (e.g. foundation models for RNA-seq), as well as multimodal integration/translation for biological data.

Education
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, expected 2025

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • MSc in Biomedical Engineering, 2016

    Columbia University

  • BA in Physics, 2014

    Yeshiva University

Contact

  • rboiar [at] mit [dot] edu