Dvir Aran

Dvir Aran is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Biology at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, with a secondary appointment in the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science. His research spans two complementary fields. As a computational biologist, he develops methods for decoding genomic and single-cell data: his tools SingleR and xCell, used to map immune cells in cancer and other diseases, have been adopted by more than 100,000 researchers worldwide, and his work has been cited nearly 17,000 times. In parallel, his lab builds artificial intelligence for the clinic — language-model agents that catch diagnostic errors in the emergency room, models that learn from electronic health records, and deep learning that reads pathology slides to guide cancer treatment.

Trained in computer science and computational biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof. Aran was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and UCSF before joining the Technion in 2020; he received tenure earlier this year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his real-time analyses of Israel’s vaccination campaign provided some of the world’s earliest evidence that the vaccines were working, quoted in Nature, Science, Reuters, and The Telegraph. At the Technion, he serves on the executive board of TERA, the Technion–Rambam initiative for AI in medicine, and as scientific advisor of the university’s multi-omics core. He is spending this year as a visiting scholar at UCSF and is cofounder and CTO of MedBAR.ai, a startup for simulation-based testing and certification of both physicians and medical AI systems. He is married and a father of three.