Jaak Vilo
| Jaak Vilo | |
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| Born | November 14, 1966 Tallinn, Estonia |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Estonia |
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| Known for | Bioinformatics: Expression Profiler, SPEXS, g:Profiler, ELIXIR-Estonia |
| 🏅 Awards | ACM Senior Member[1] |
Jaak Vilo (born 1966) is an Estonian computer scientist working in the field of bioinformatics and health informatics. He is known for his pioneering work on microarray gene expression data analysis and transcription factor binding site detection using novel pattern discovery methods[3], and Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME).
He is a professor at the Tartu University. From 2011 he is head of the Institute of Computer Science,[4] University of Tartu. The unit has undergone rapid growth and belongs now to the world top 200 computer science institutes by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2021).
Biography[edit]
Vilo earned his PhD from the University of Helsinki with a thesis "Pattern Discovery from Biosequences",[5] supervised by prof. Esko Ukkonen.
In 1999–2002 he worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL. He was an early member of the Array Express group led by Alvis Brazma. Vilo contributed the Expression Profiler gene expression data analysis suite consisting of expression data clustering and visualisation tool EPCLUST, pattern discovery tool SPEXS, and visualisation tool PATMATCH, the URL rewriting tool URLMAP, as well as the first Gene Ontology function enrichment tool EP:GO.[6]
At University of Tartu he established a research group BIIT.[7]
Vilo is Head of the ELIXIR Estonia (ESFRI Data infrastructure) node.[8]
Vilo is member of the Informatics Europe board from 2018[9].
He is a lifelong member of professional societies International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Honours[edit]
- 2012 Member of Estonian Academy of Sciences [10]
- 2013 Order of the White Star, 3rd Class[11]
- 2014 Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL) Person of the year 2013[12]
- 2016 Tartu University small medal[13]
- 2020 ACM Senior Member[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ACM Senior Member from December 2020
- ↑ Google Scholar
- ↑ Alvis Brāzma, Inge Jonassen, Jaak Vilo, Esko Ukkonen: Predicting gene regulatory elements in silico on a genomic scale. Genome research 8:11 (1998)
- ↑ Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
- ↑ Vilo, Jaak (November 2002). "Pattern Discovery from Biosequences".
- ↑ Jaak Vilo, Misha Kapushesky, Patrick Kemmeren, Ugis Sarkans, Alvis Brazma: Expression Profiler. In "The Analysis of Gene Expression Data". pp. 142-162. Springer, 2003
- ↑ BIIT - Bioinformatics and IT research group
- ↑ ELIXIR Estonia node
- ↑ Informatics Europe Board
- ↑ https://www.akadeemia.ee/en/member/vilo/
- ↑ President Ilves autasustab teenetemärgiga 99 inimest Eesti Päevaleht 7. veebruar 2013 (in Estonian)
- ↑ Arvutimaailm 15. mai 2014 (in Estonian)
- ↑ Tartu Ülikooli medal
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