Sara Mostafavi
Associate Professor
Develops machine learning models for genomics that link genetic variation to gene regulation and disease.
Sara Mostafavi's lab at UW works on genomics & computational biology and medical imaging & healthcare AI. 12 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly Nature Methods and Nature. 4 PhD students. 25 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 25%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 25
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 0
- 3 papers2024 · T1 2
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Methods, Nature
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Genomics & computational biology1 paper
- genetic1 paper
- variation1 paper
- gene regulation1 paper
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- Nature Methods (T1)A scalable approach to investigating sequence-to-expression prediction from personal genomes
- COLMBenchguard: Who guards the benchmarks? automated auditing of LLM agent benchmarks
- RECOMBDeep genomic models of allele-specific measurements
20251 paper
- Bioinformatics AdvancesRefining the cis-regulatory grammar learned by sequence-to-activity models by increasing model resolution
20243 papers
- Nature (T1)AIRE relies on Z-DNA to flag gene targets for thymic T cell tolerization
- RECOMB-seqQuick and effective approximation of in silico saturation mutagenesis experiments with first-order Taylor expansion
- Nature Methods (T1)Unlocking gene regulation with sequence-to-function models
20235 papers
- Nature GeneticsBenchmarking of deep neural networks for predicting personal gene expression from DNA sequence highlights shortcomings
- Nature GeneticsCell sub-type specific effects of genetic variation in the aging and Alzheimer cortex
- Genome BiologyExplaiNN: interpretable and transparent neural networks for genomics
- RNAImpact of random 50-base sequences inserted into an intron on splicing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Stem Cell ReportsIn silico discovery of small molecules for efficient stem cell differentiation into definitive endoderm
Where alumni went25 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 1
Also to
- University of Wisconsin--Madison
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UW Allen School Computer Science PhD
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