Raphael Gottardo

Dr. Gottardo is a Full Professor of Biomedical Data Science at the University of Lausanne and the founding director of the Biomedical Data Science Center at the University Hospital of Lausanne. Before that, he was a Full Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutch, an affiliate Professor of statistics at the University of Washington, and scientific director of the Fred Hutch Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center. Dr. Gottardo’s current research interests center on the development of computational tools and new machine learning methods for analyzing high-dimensional single-cell data with applications to immunology, vaccine research, and immunotherapy. He has led a large number of projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, to name a few. In 2018 he received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award, which honors a statistician below the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics.