Aviv Regev

Computational biologist Aviv Regev joined the Broad Institute as a core faculty member in 2006. Her research centers on understanding how complex molecular networks function and evolve in the face of genetic and environmental changes. She studied for a direct M.Sc. at the Interdisciplinary Program for the Fostering of Excellence at Tel Aviv University, where she focused mostly on biology, computer science and mathematics, and did research in theoretical biology (on the evolution of development) and experimental biology (on genomic instability). In her Ph.D. research (with Eva Jablonka at Tel Aviv University and Ehud Shapiro at the Weizmann Institute) she developed a novel representation language for biomolecular processes based on a computer process algebra — a framework originally developed for studying concurrent computation systems.

In parallel, Aviv worked for several years in the biotech industry in Israel, where she established and directed a bioinformatics R&D team at QBI, a functional genomics company. In the past several years she has been a fellow at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, where she worked on the reconstruction of regulatory networks and modules from genomics data.

Aviv was recently awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface to support her research on the function and evolution of molecular networks. In addition to her position at the Broad Institute, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at MIT.