Email: Nafeh.Fananapazir@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu

Nafeh Fananapazir joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics in May 2002 as part of Vanderbilt University's M.D./ Ph.D. MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program). He is currently pursuing his Masters in Bioinformatics, studying the application of Machine Learning techniques to proteomics (mass spectrometry) data in the evaluation of cancer diagnosis. He obtained his bachelors degree (Interdisciplinary Studies) from the University of Virginia with concentrations in biology, chemistry, and Middle Eastern studies and maintains an active extracurricular interest in the history of religion and philosophy.

Education/Background

2000-Present	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, M.D.
2000-Present	Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MS, Ph.D.
1998-2000	1998-2000 Carden Jennings Publishing (ScholarOne Inc.) Manager/Head Programmer for Abstract CentralTM " Solely responsible for designing, programming, running, and providing technical support for on-line, web-based abstract submission, review, chair, admin, and itinerary modules
1994-1998	University of Virginia, B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning
• Causal discovery and Feature selection in Biomedical data sets
• Proteomics

Publications

1. C.F. Aliferis, I. Tsamardinos, P. Massion, A. Statnikov, N. Fananapazir, D. Hardin. "Machine Learning Models For Classification Of Lung Cancer and Selection of Genomic Markers Using Array Gene Expression Data." Proceedings of the 16th International FLAIRS Conference, 2003
2. K.S. Milani; N. Fananapazir; "Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings" Journal of Bahá'í Studies, Volume 9:1