VICTORIA POPIC

VICTORIA POPIC

VICTORIA POPIC

PhD Schmidt Fellow, Principal Investigator | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA |

Victoria Popic is a Schmidt Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She designs algorithms for genome analysis and interpretation, with a focus on efficiency, scalability, and privacy. Her work leverages techniques from artificial intelligence (in particular, computer vision and deep reinforcement learning), sketching algorithms, and combinatorics to address problems such as structural variation discovery and clonal evolution in cancer, genome phasing, and assembly.

Popic earned her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. She also holds a B.S. in computer science, a B.S. in mathematics, and an M.Eng. in computer science from MIT. After earning her Ph.D., she conducted research on DNA sequencing at Illumina and most recently worked on compilers at an AI hardware startup.