Conor R. Walker

Welcome! I am a postdoc in the G² Lab at the New York Genome Center and Columbia University. I am currently leading research into privacy-preserving methods for analysing large-scale human functional genomics data.

I recently finished my PhD in the Goldman Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute and the University of Cambridge. The main focus of my PhD was to statistically model small-scale rearrangements in human genomes. I also developed deep learning-based tests for detecting interspecific positive selection that are robust to alignment error, as well as working on several projects involving sequence and molecular evolutionary analyses of SARS-CoV-2 genomes.

Before my PhD, I was at Newcastle University, where I completed my masters thesis on the optimisation of sequences for DNA computing systems using multi-objective genetic algorithms.