I’m Abdelrahman Mahmoud, a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, developing AI agents powered by single-cell genomics data to generate and reconstruct causal paths underlying diseases.

Background

I did my Ph.D. in cancer single-cell genomics from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University, Germany.

I developed statistical models and machine learning approaches to understand the tumour microenvironment and immune co-evolution across many tumour entities. I analysed high-dimensional single-cell genomics data; for connecting cellular states and cell-cell wiring to predict cancer patients’ clinical outcomes.  

Through my Ph.D. research, I have been developing novel ideas for how we could tackle the causality questions in biological contexts, which are the foundation stones of my current postdoctoral research.