Itsik Pe'er

About

Itsik Pe'er is a Professor of Computer Science & Systems Biology at Columbia University, where he leads the Pe'er Lab. His research focuses on developing computational methods, including probabilistic models and machine learning, to analyze high-throughput biological data, particularly in microbiome dynamics, cancer evolution, and single-cell systems.

Selected publications

• Objective-Specific Privileged Bases via Full-Prefix Matryoshka Learning
• Transcriptomic plasticity is a hallmark of metastatic pancreatic cancer
• CLADES: Contrastive Learning Augmented DifferEntial Splicing with orthologous positive pairs
• Distributional bias compromises leave-one-out cross-validation
• Processing-bias correction with DEBIAS-M improves cross-study generalization of microbiome prediction models