Dr Manolis Kellis: Cognitive Cartography

Dr. Manolis Kellis delivers a TEDx Berkshires talk about how we can create meaning and solve complex problems through AI tools. Manolis Kellis is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT, a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT where he directs the MIT Computational Biology Group. His research is in disease genetics, epigenomics, gene circuitry, non-coding RNAs, comparative genomics, and phylogenetics. He has authored more than 230 journal publications that have been cited more than 115,000 times. He has helped direct the Roadmap Epigenomics project, the comparative analysis of 29 mammals, the human and the Drosophila Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, and the Genotype Tissue-Expression (GTEx) project and others. He received the US Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT, where he received the Sprowls award for the best doctorate thesis in computer science. He has lived in Greece and France.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.