• Gene regulation
• Genetic networks
• Alternative splicing
• High-throughput data analysis (RNASeq, microarrays, imaging)
• Organisms: Human, mouse, yeast
• Machine learning algorithms
• Graphical models, factor graphs and Bayesian networks
• Probabilistic inference algorithms
  

Brendan Frey is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto in the faculties of Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Frey's primary research interests include understanding gene regulation and alternative splicing, computational models of vision, and information processing and machine learning. His notable contributions include deciphering the splicing code (Nature 2010), clustering by affinity propagation (Science 2007), factor graphs and the sum product algorithm (IEEE Trans IT 2001) and the wake-sleep algorithm for unsupervised neural networks (Science 1995). Dr. Freyis a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an NSERC EWR Steacie Fellow, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  His research group includes three postdoctoral fellows, seven graduate students and two technical staff. Dr. Frey has spent several years conducting research in the USA, England and India and has consulted for Microsoft Research and various information- and bio-technology companies.