User:Jwintersinger/sandbox/Quaid Morris

Quaid Morris is a Canadian scientist and Professor in computational biology and machine learning at the University of Toronto, Vector Institute for artificial intelligence , and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Morris is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and is noted for his work on gene function prediction, post-transcriptional regulation, and cancer evolution.

Education
Morris completed a Doctor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. His thesis developed an approximate inference algorithm for a Bayesian network that diagnosed disease.

Career
Morris was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto from 2002 to 2005 under the supervision of Brendan Frey and Tim Hughes. He began work as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Departments of Molecular Genetics and Computer Science in 2005, where he was a founding member of the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. Morris was promoted to associate professor in 2011, and became a full professor in 2018. Morris joined the Vector Institute for artificial intelligence in 2017. Previously, Morris held affiliations as a visiting scientist at the Centre de Regulació Genòmica in 2013 and at New York University in 2017.

Research
Morris' research focuses on understanding how cancer evolves in patients, post-transcriptional regulation (including regulatory mechanisms of RNA-binding proteins, 3'-end mRNA processing, and alternative splicing). His notable past work includes GeneMANIA, a network-based gene function prediction platform, and PhyloWGS , an algorithm for reconstructing the history of cancer development in individual patients.

Awards & Honours
Morris was named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair in 2018.