Mikael Bodén is a group leader in bioinformatics and appointed as an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland. He has a PhD in computer science, AI and statistical machine learning but has spent the last 15 years in biological research environments, including the Institute for Molecular Bioscience/ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, where he is currently located. Funded by ARC, NHMRC and MRFF, research in his group centres on machine learning and data integration in genomics and proteomics, phylogenetics, and protein engineering. Bodén is the founding director of UQ’s postgraduate program in bioinformatics.
Mikael Bodén has expertise in statistical machine learning that will inform the study design and selection of machine learning approaches. In additional to machine learning methods, Bodén and his group have developed ancestral reconstruction to engineer novel proteins that perform in conditions suitable for medical, industrial and agricultural applications. This experience will inform methodological decisions, specifically to alleviate concerns around generalisation from combinatorial (sequence) data and its integration with biological information.
