Biography

Judith Somekh, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Information Systems Department at the University of Haifa. Her BSc (2001), MSc (2007), and Ph.D. (2013) in Information Systems Engineering are from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Judith Somekh received the Promoting Women in Science Award from the Israeli Ministry of Science during her Ph.D. studies. Between 2015-2017 she was a post-doctoral researcher at Isaac Kohane's lab at the Department for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, USA. Her research interests lie in the computational systems biology and biomedical informatics domain and concern developing methodologies combining data-driven methods and model-driven methods to better understand whole-body patterns and the development of diseases.