Juan De la Hoz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Precision Psychiatry and the Center for Genomic Medicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
His research focuses on the use of machine learning and statistical methods to better understand the molecular and clinical heterogeneity of psychiatric conditions. His work integrates large-scale biobanks with longitudinal clinical records and genetic data to map how psychiatric disorders evolve over time.
As part of his efforts to ensure that advances in precision psychiatry benefit diverse populations worldwide, he has developed NLP tools for analyzing clinical notes in Spanish, and worked on expanding research infrastructure in Colombia.
He earned his PhD in Bioinformatics from UCLA in 2023, working in the labs of Drs. Loes Olde Loohuis and Nelson Freimer. His earlier work spans areas of evolutionary biology, bioinformatic algorithms, and agricultural genomics.
Outside of the lab, Juan enjoys cycling, baking, and dancing salsa.
Postdoc
Harvard Medical School
PhD BioinformaticsUCLA, 2023
Applied StatisticsUniversidad del Valle, 2016
BA MicrobiologyUniversidad de los Andes, 2015
2021: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: BIG Summer, UCLA
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