Anna Goldenberg

As a young child born and raised in Voronezh, Russia, Goldenberg faced antisemitism in school.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torontos-sickkids-announces-first-of-its-kind-artificial-intelligence/|title=Toronto's SickKids announces first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence position|access-date=2019-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119130932/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torontos-sickkids-announces-first-of-its-kind-artificial-intelligence/|archive-date=2019-01-19|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/russian-born-scientist-named-head-of-ai-at-sickkids|title=Russian-born scientist named head of AI at SickKids|last1=Csillag|first1=Ron|last2=Reporter|first2=Staff|date=2019-01-18|website=The Canadian Jewish News|access-date=2019-01-20}} Eventually, in 1995, when she was 17 years old, Goldenberg's family left Russia and moved to Kentucky, U.S.A. There, Goldenberg completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree, in Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, at the University of Louisville.

Goldenberg completed a Master's in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, followed by a PhD in machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where her thesis explored scalable graphical models for social networks.{{Cite web|url=http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/ml2007/CMU-ML-07-109.pdf|title=Scalable Graphical Models for Social Networks|last=Goldenberg|first=Anna|date=2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705220659/http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/ml2007/CMU-ML-07-109.pdf|archive-date=2017-07-05|url-status=live}} While in graduate school, Goldenberg was close with Joyce Feinberg - who was later one of 11 victims killed in the Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue shooting in October 2018.

Goldenberg moved to Canada in 2008 as a post-doctoral fellow. She is currently appointed as an associate professor at University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics and a scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children's Research Institute. Her laboratory explores how machine learning can be used to map the heterogeneity seen in various human diseases - specifically to develop methodologies to identify patterns in collected data and improve patient outcomes.{{Cite web|url=https://thevarsity.ca/2017/11/13/who-are-the-new-u-of-t-vector-institute-researchers/|title=Who are the new U of T Vector Institute researchers?|date=2017-11-13|website=The Varsity|access-date=2019-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119033318/https://thevarsity.ca/2017/11/13/who-are-the-new-u-of-t-vector-institute-researchers/|archive-date=2019-01-19|url-status=live}} She has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals.{{Cite web|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=anna+goldenberg|title=anna goldenberg - PubMed - NCBI|last=pubmeddev|website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-02-07}} Similarity Network Fusion, a networking method devised by her research group is the first data integration method developed to integrate patient data which improved survival outcome predictions in different cancers.{{Cite thesis|title=Machine learning methods for omics data integration|publisher=Iowa State University|first=Wengang|last=Zhou|year=2011 |doi=10.31274/etd-180810-4307|doi-access=free}} She has an h-index of 17, and her research has been cited over 2,000 times.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=cEepZOEAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Anna Goldenberg - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.ca|access-date=2019-01-20}}

In 2017, Goldenberg was appointed as a new Tier 2 CIHR-funded Canada Research Chair in Computational Medicine at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias/lists-listes/2017/october-octobre-eng.aspx|title=Canada Research Chairs|last=Government of Canada|first=Industry Canada|date=2012-11-29|website=www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca|access-date=2019-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923223704/http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias/lists-listes/2017/october-octobre-eng.aspx|archive-date=2018-09-23|url-status=live}}

On 15 January 2019, Goldenberg was named the first chair in biomedical informatics and artificial intelligence at the Hospital for Sick Children, which is the first of its kind to exist in a Canadian children's hospital. This position is partially funded by a $1.75 million donation from Amar Varma (a Toronto entrepreneur whose newborn son underwent surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children).

• Anna Goldenberg, Galit Shmueli, Richard A Caruana, Stephen E Fienberg. Early statistical detection of anthrax outbreaks by tracking over-the-counter medication sales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2002.
• Anna Goldenberg, Alice X Zheng, Stephen E Fienberg, Edoardo M Airoldi. A survey of statistical network models. Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning. 2010.
• Aziz M Mezlini, Eric JM Smith, Marc Fiume, Orion Buske, Gleb L Savich, Sohrab Shah, Sam Aparicio, Derek Y Chiang, Anna Goldenberg, Michael Brudno. iReckon: simultaneous isoform discovery and abundance estimation from RNA-seq data. Genome Research. 2013.
• Bo Wang, Aziz M Mezlini, Feyyaz Demir, Marc Fiume, Zhuowen Tu, Michael Brudno, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Anna Goldenberg. Similarity network fusion for aggregating data types on a genomic scale. Nature Methods. 2014.

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