Aziz is an Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at MBZUAI, leading the Computational Biology and Cancer Regulatory Genomics (CBCRG) Lab in Abu Dhabi. He has a PhD in Bioinformatics from Tsinghua University with Xuegong Zhang followed by a Postdoc at NCMM, University of Oslo with Anthony Mathelier. His research bridges computational biology, genomics, epigenomics, machine learning, and software engineering to understand gene regulation in diseases such as cancer.
Previously, Aziz was a senior research scientist at Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University with Christina Curtis where he led a bioinformatics team and developed scalable infrastructure for analyzing large-scale cancer multi-omic datasets. He contributed to major consortiums, including the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) and the Metastasis Research Network (MetNet). At Stanford University he also served as an Instructor for Stanford Biosciences to develop and teach a course on the art of reproducible science.
He is a strong advocate for open, reproducible, and collaborative science. He has developed widely used bioinformatics tools and resources such as JASPAR, Intervene, dbSUPER, and UniBind, which have become essential resources in gene regulation. He is also a Certified Instructor for The Carpentries, providing hands-on training in software and genomics data science. He was an eLife and ASAPbio Community Ambassador and actively promoted preprints, open-science, and reproducibility.
Damla Ovek Baydar, Ieva Rauluseviciute, Dina R Aronsen … Aziz Khan et al. (all authors)
Damla Ovek Baydar, Ieva Rauluseviciute, Dina R Aronsen, Romain Blanc-Mathieu, Ine Bonthuis, Herman de Beukelaer, Katalin Ferenc, Alice Jegou, Vipin Kumar, Roza Berhanu Lemma, Jérémy Lucas, Mathis Pochon, Chang M Yun, Vivekanandan Ramalingam, Salil Sanjay Deshpande, Aman Patel, Georgi K Marinov, Austin T Wang, Alejandro Aguirre, Jaime A Castro-Mondragon, Damir Baranasic, Jeanne Chèneby, Sveinung Gundersen, Morten Johansen, Aziz Khan, Marieke L Kuijjer, Eivind Hovig, Boris Lenhard, Albin Sandelin, Klaas Vandepoele, Wyeth W Wasserman, François Parcy, Anshul Kundaje, Anthony Mathelier
Debra Van Egeren, Ryan O. Schenck, Aziz Khan et al. (all authors)
Debra Van Egeren, Ryan O. Schenck, Aziz Khan, Aaron M. Horning, Shanlan Mo, Clemens L. Weiß, Edward D. Esplin, Winston R. Becker, Si Wu, Casey Hanson, Nasim Barapour, Lihua Jiang, Kévin Contrepois, Hayan Lee, Stephanie A. Nevins, Tuhin K. Guha, Hao Zhang, Zhen He, Zhicheng Ma, Emma Monte, Thomas V. Karathanos, Rozelle Laquindanum, Meredith A. Mills, Hassan Chaib, Roxanne Chiu, Ruiqi Jian, Joanne Chan, Mathew Ellenberger, Bahareh Bahmani, Basil Michael, Annika K. Weimer, D. Glen Esplin, Samuel Lancaster, Jeanne Shen, Uri Ladabaum, Teri A. Longacre, Anshul Kundaje, William J. Greenleaf, Zheng Hu, James M. Ford, Michael P. Snyder, Christina Curtis
Noah F. Greenwald, Iris Nederlof, Cameron Sowers … Aziz Khan et al. (all authors)
Noah F. Greenwald, Iris Nederlof, Cameron Sowers, Daisy Yi Ding, Seongyeol Park, Alex Kong, Kathleen E. Houlahan, Sricharan Reddy Varra, Manon de Graaf, Veerle Geurts, Candace C. Liu, Jolene S. Ranek, Leonie Voorwerk, Michiel de Maaker, Adam Kagel, Erin McCaffrey, Aziz Khan, Christine Yiwen Yeh, Christine Camacho Fullaway, Zumana Khair, Brennan G. Simon, Yunhao Bai, Hadeesha Piyadasa, Tyler Risom, Alea Delmastro, Felix J. Hartmann, Lise Mangiante, Cristina Sotomayor-Vivas, Sean C. Bendall, Ton N. Schumacher, Zhicheng Ma, Marc Bosse, Marc J. van de Vijver, Robert Tibshirani, Hugo M. Horlings, Christina Curtis, Marleen Kok, Michael Angelo
Kathleen E. Houlahan, Lise Mangiante, Cristina Sotomayor-Vivas … Aziz Khan et al. (all authors)
Kathleen E. Houlahan, Lise Mangiante, Cristina Sotomayor-Vivas, Alvina Adimoelja, Seongyeol Park, Aziz Khan, Sophia J. Pribus, Zhicheng Ma, Jennifer L. Caswell-Jin, Christina Curtis
Angelo Fortunato, Diego Mallo, Luis Cisneros … Aziz Khan et al. (all authors)
Angelo Fortunato, Diego Mallo, Luis Cisneros, Lorraine M. King, Aziz Khan, Christina Curtis, Marc D. Ryser, Joseph Y. Lo, Allison Hall, Jeffrey R. Marks, E. Shelley Hwang, Carlo C. Maley
I discuss the importance of open source software for the scientific discovery in the current data-intensive century. I also shared my experience about the ISMB/ECCB and BOSC 2019 in Basel.
