Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins

Titles

Affiliate Member, Program for Mathematical Genomics

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

Affiliations

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Department of Systems Biology
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Program for Mathematical Genomics

Phone

(347) 878-1256

Chris Wiggins is an applied mathematician with a PhD in theoretical physics who develops machine learning applications for the study biological problems. His areas of focus include analysis of microarray data, comparative genomics and population genetics, design of computer vision applications for microscopy and microscopic time-lapse data, statistical inference in single-molecule biophysics, and biological network inference and analysis. Additional research interests in systems biology include the stochastic modeling of transcriptional regulatory networks and the identification of relationships between the topology of biological networks and their realizable information-processing functions. Wiggins has been a faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics since 2001 and is also a member of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 

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Columbia Investigators Awarded New NCI Physical Sciences in Oncology Center
The Center for Topology of Cancer Evolution and Heterogeneity will combine new mathematical approaches and single-cell experimental technologies to study cellular diversity in solid tumors.
Why the New York Times Hired a Biology Researcher as Its Chief Data Scientist
Fast Company magazine speaks with Department of Systems Biology Associate Professor Chris Wiggins about the shared challenges that the natural sciences and the media are both facing in the age of big data.