Shima Dastgheib received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Georgia and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, School of Medicine.
Her research interests include semantic technologies, knowledge representation and visualization, with a focus on biomedical and healthcare domain. She has more than 6 years of experience in developing knowledge bases for scientific discoveries.
Dr. Dastgheib is currently a data scientist at NuMedii, a California-based startup company, translating Big Data into drug discovery.