Cemal Erdem

I am a postdoctoral fellow at Clemson University in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, working with Dr. Marc Birtwistle. I received my Ph.D. in Computational & Systems Biology from CMU-Pitt Joint Ph.D. Program under the guidance of Drs. Timothy Lezon and D. Lansing Taylor. My doctoral thesis incorporated data analytics, statistical/mechanistic computational modeling, and wet-lab experimentation. I developed a framework to analyze proteomics datasets. My current research projects include creating a new format for large-scale mechanistic model construction using the multi-omics datasets generated by the LINCS Consortium. My other project integrates multiple omics data types using the framework I developed during my doctoral training. Applying penalized regression machine learning models, I find robust statistical associations between multi-omics datasets. Going forward, merging these statistical and mechanistic modeling approaches with experimentation is my proposed research direction, focusing on better descriptive (of patient data) and clinically predictive large-scale computational models.