Olga Troyanskaya
Also known as Olga G. Troyanskaya
Olga Troyanskaya is a computational biologist at Princeton whose work includes deep learning models for noncoding variants. She earned a computer science and biology degree at the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics at Stanford. In 2015, she and Jian Zhou published a deep learning sequence model in Nature Methods. The Association for Computing Machinery named her an ACM Fellow in 2020, and ISCB named her its 2026 Innovator Award winner. As of October 2026, she is the Maduraperuma/Khot Professor of Computer Science at Princeton and directs Princeton Precision Health.
- Now at
- Princeton University and Simons Foundation
- Works
- 285
- Citations
- 31,132
- h-index
- 78
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1999–2003
A computer science and biology degree
In 1999, she completes a computer science and biology degree at the University of Richmond. A Ph.D. in biomedical informatics at Stanford follows in 2003.
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2003–2013
Joining Princeton's faculty
In 2003, she joins Princeton as an assistant professor, and in 2013 she becomes a full professor.
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2011
The Overton Prize
The International Society for Computational Biology gives her the Overton Prize in 2011, a prize for early to mid-career scientists.
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2015
Deep learning for noncoding variants
She and Jian Zhou publish a deep learning sequence model for noncoding variants in Nature Methods in 2015.
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2020
An ACM Fellowship
In 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery names her an ACM fellow for contributions to computational biology and data integration.
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2022
Princeton Precision Health begins
Princeton creates Princeton Precision Health in the summer of 2022, and the initiative focuses on three areas: kidney disease and diabetes, the immune system and inflammation, and neurodevelopment and mental health.
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2026
An ISCB Innovator Award
The 2026 ISCB Innovator Award goes to her, and she opens day 2 of ISMB by arguing that biomedicine needs purpose-built, context-aware models.
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As of October 2026
A named professorship at Princeton
Princeton appoints her Maduraperuma/Khot Professor of Computer Science in 2025. She directs Princeton Precision Health and serves as deputy director for genomics at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology.
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- Olga Troyanskaya - Wikipedia
- PacBio Announces the Appointment of Olga Troyanskaya from Princeton University to the Scientific Advisory Board - PacBio
- International Society for Computational Biology Honors Michael Ashburner and Olga Troyanskaya with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2011 | PLOS Computational Biology
- Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model | Nature Methods
- Troyanskaya named fellow of Association for Computing Machinery - Princeton Engineering
- Using the tools of computer science to improve health care - Princeton Engineering
- July 14, 2026: ISMB 2026 Day 2: Highlights and Recap
- Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Princeton University - Women In Academia Report
- Olga Troyanskaya