Portrait of Mathieu Blanchette

Mathieu Blanchette

Associate Academic Member
Director and Associate Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Research Topics
Computational Biology
Deep Learning
Graph Neural Networks

Biography

Mathieu Blanchette is an associate professor and director of the School of Computer Science at McGill University.

After completing his PhD (University of Washington, 2002) and a postdoc (UC Santa Cruz, 2003), Blanchette joined the School of Computer Science at McGill, where he founded the Computational Genomics Lab. Research carried out in this lab has resulted in more than seventy publications.

Blanchette is an elected member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a 2009 Sloan Research Fellow. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Computer Scientist Researcher Prize by the Canadian Association for Computer Science in 2012, and the Overton Prize in 2006.

He loves teaching and supervising students, for which he was honoured with McGill’s Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008).

Current Students

Master's Research - McGill University
Master's Research - McGill University
Master's Research - McGill University
PhD - McGill University
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PhD - McGill University

Publications

Algorithms in Bioinformatics
P. Agarwal
Tatsuya Akutsu
Amir Amihood
Alberto Apostolico
C. Benham
Gary Gustaf Benson
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Olivier Gascuel
Raffaele Giancarlo
R. Guigó
Michael Hallet
D. Huson
G. Kucherov
Michelle R. Lacey
Jens Lagergren
Giuseppe Lancia
Gad M. Landau
Thierry. Lecroq
B. Moret … (see 21 more)
S. Morishita
Elchanan Mossel
Vincent Moulton
Lior S. Pachter
Knut Reinert
I. Rigoutsos
David Sankoff
Sophie Schbath
Eran Segal
Charles Semple
J. Setubal
Roded Sharan
S. Skiena
Jens Stoye
Esko Ukkonen
Lisa Allen Vawter
Alfonso Valencia
Tandy J. Warnow
Lusheng Wang
Rita Casadio
Gene Myers