Faculty Information Details

All data is as of November 17, 2025.

Hayes Nelson: Associate Professor

Affiliation	Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Discipline	Medical Life Science
Academic Degrees	The Pennsylvania State University 　Doctor of Philosophy
Research Fields	Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy; Basic medicine; Virology Medicine,dentistry, and pharmacy; Basic medicine; Human genetics Biological Sciences; Genome science; Medical genome science Informatics; Computing Technologies; Software Informatics; Computing Technologies; High performance computing Biology; Basic biology; Evolutionary biology Biology; Basic biology; Ecology / Environment
Research Keywords	hepatitis / virology / liver / Java / next generation sequencing / supercomputer / database
Comments	I am a bioinformatician and Java programmer using a data science approach to investigate viral hepatitis and liver diseases. I use a supercomputer to analyze next-generation sequencing data and analyze experimental data using statistics and machine learning. I also develop relational and NoSQL database approaches for data management and build web applications using Java and Angular. Recently I have begun to focus on deep learning and graph analytics to identify host factors implicated in hepatitis B and C infection. In 2003, I received a PhD in biology from the Pennsylvania State University, where I studied evolutionary ecology of mating systems. In 2005, I became a postdoctoral fellow in the Kanehisa Laboratory in the Bioinformatics Center at Kyoto University, where I developed the varDB antigenic variation database to examine mechanisms of immune escape in Plasmodium falciparum and other human pathogens.
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Past media appearances
Topic	Cancer Treatment Data Science Information Technology Medical Science/Healthcare Robotics/Artificial intelligence
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Educational Programs	[Bachelor Degree Program] School of Medicine : Program of Medicine : Medicine [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Biomedical Sciences : Program of Medicine

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