Lorin Crawford
Principal Researcher
About
I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA (opens in new tab) and co-lead Project Ex Vivo (opens in new tab), a collaborative effort with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard focused on defining, engineering, and targeting cell states in cancer. In general, the central aim of my research program is to build interpretable machine learning algorithms that help uncover how genetic effects and gene-by-environmental interactions contribute to the architecture of complex traits and disease progression.
Prior to joining Microsoft, I received my PhD from the Department of Statistical Science (opens in new tab) at Duke University where I was co-advised by Sayan Mukherjee (opens in new tab) and Kris C. Wood (opens in new tab). As a Duke Dean’s Graduate Fellow and NSF Graduate Research Fellow I completed my PhD dissertation entitled: “Bayesian Kernel Models for Statistical Genetics and Cancer Genomics.” I also received my Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics from Clark Atlanta University (opens in new tab).
For more details about my interests and work please see my external website (opens in new tab).