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Gustavo Stolovitzky

Gustavo Stolovitzky is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gustavo Stolovitzky rather than just read about it. In short: Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine-American computational systems biologist.

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Reference excerpt

Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine-American computational systems biologist. He was the CSO of Sema4 and then of GeneDx until December 2023. Between 1998 and 2021 he was a researcher and executive at IBM Research. At IBM he served in several roles including founding chair of the Exploratory Life Sciences Council and director of the Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program at IBM Research. From 2013 to 2018 he was Adjunct professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and from 2007 he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. His research has been cited more than 29,000 times Stolovitzky is a co-founder of the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM). DREAM is an international collaborative effort that leverages crowdsourcing to recognize effective methods in biomedicine and consists of more than 15,000 participants. Stolovitzky won the IBM Fellow award for pioneering the use of crowdsourcing for research in computational biology.

Career Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1987, and his PhD in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1994. In 1998, Stolovitzky joined IBM Research to work in the field of computational systems biology; he has since become the director of IBM's Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University. In 2005, Stolovitzky and Jared Roach developed sophisticated methods for the analysis of Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing (MPSS) data. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. Solovitztky has advocated the usage of crowdsourcing as a tool for scientific research.

Recognition Stolovitzky has received the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC)'s Pioneer Award for Great Minds in STEM and the World Technology Award in Biotechnology in 2013, and the Raíces Prize from the Argentinian government in 2017. Stolovitzky is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and has been inducted as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Technology Network, Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019, Stolovitzky was appointed as an IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor IBM bestows to its employees. In 2021, Stolovitzky was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

Family Stolovitzky resides in the Northeastern United States with his family.

History Stolovitzky received his M.Sc. in physics (with honors) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Yale University in 1994. He later explained that during a visit he paid to a friend studying in Yale, he met with K.R. Sreenivasan, who "called the provost and asked if he could add me as a PhD student, even though I hadn't formally applied to Yale and all the deadlines had already passed." He did his postdoctorate at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at The Rockefeller University, following which he joined IBM Research in 1998.

Titles and awards Among others, Gustavo has received the following awards and titles:

IBM Fellow Distinguished Research Staff Member in the IBM Computational Biology Center IBM Master Inventor Fellow of the NY Academy of Sciences Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science HEENAC Pioneer Award to Great Minds in STEM, awarded by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (2013) World Technology Awards in the Category "Biotechnology", awarded by the World Technology Network (2013) Henry Prentiss Becton Prize, awarded by the Faculty of Engineering at Yale University for Excellence in Engineering and Applied Science (1995) Fellow of the World Technology Network

Further reading The website of the DREAM program

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Gustavo Stolovitzky

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Gustavo Stolovitzky claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Gustavo Stolovitzky before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gustavo Stolovitzky ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gustavo Stolovitzky

In research: Gustavo Stolovitzky appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gustavo Stolovitzky in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gustavo Stolovitzky is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Argentine expatriates in the United States, Columbia University faculty, Computational biologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gustavo Stolovitzky outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Gustavo Stolovitzky in simple terms?

Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine-American computational systems biologist.

Why does Gustavo Stolovitzky matter?

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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