Center for Computational Biology

Karthik Shekhar, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received the 2026 Philomathia Prize, which provides $200,000 to support his research over three years. Shekhar will use the award to advance research into the bioelectric basis of neural activity, investigating...Read more about Karthik Shekhar Wins Philomathia Prize for Bioelectricity Research

Rasmus Nielsen, Professor of Statistics and Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution alongside Ziheng Yang of University College London. The prize recognizes their pioneering and complementary contributions to molecular evolution,...Read more about Rasmus Nielsen Receives 2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution

Yun Song, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Statistics, and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at UC Berkeley, led a team of researchers in developing GPN-Star, a new genomic language model that uses evolutionary patterns across species to identify...Read more about Yun Song and Collaborators Develop AI Model to Unlock Secrets of the Human Genome