Fadhl Alakwaa
, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
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Dr. Fadhl Alakwaa is a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses is on the extraction of biological insight from big data and the development of a data-driven approach for personalized medicine using multi-omics data and modern machine learning algorithms. He developed many bioinformatics pipelines for analyzing multi-omics data such as transcriptomics, metabolomics, microbiome, proteomics, and single-cell omics data. He leads multi-disciplinary projects and has more than 8 federal and non-federal grants as co-I. Dr. Alakwaa has more than 10 years of experience teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and he got nominated as an outstanding UROP mentor for the 2020-2021 academic year.