Affiliations

Professor, Biological Chemistry

Member, Bioinformatics GPB Home Area, Cell & Developmental Biology GPB Home Area, Gene Regulation GPB Home Area, Genetics & Genomics GPB Home Area, Medical Informatics GPB Home Area

Jason Ernst is a Professor of Biological Chemistry, Computer Science, and Computational Medicine at UCLA. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Manolis Kellis in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and affiliated with the Broad Institute. In 2008, Jason completed a PhD advised by Ziv Bar-Joseph in the Machine Learning Department and School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jason also earned BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park. He has developed a number of widely used bioinformatics methods and software include ChromHMM for chromatin state modeling and genome annotation and STEM and DREM for the analysis of time series gene expression data. He is a member of the editorial board at Genome Research and has been a program co-chair for the Regulatory Genomics Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB. He is a recipient of a NIH-Avenir Award, NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Fellowship, and a John H. Walsh Young Investigator Research Prize. 

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