Regev Schweiger

Starting Oct 2025, I will be a PI at the Gray Faculty of Medicine and the Blavatnik School of Computer Science & AI at Tel Aviv University.

I am currently the Director of Science at MyHeritage.

Before, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, with Prof. Richard Durbin. I completed my PhD at the Computer Science department of Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Eran Halperin; and my M.Sc with Prof. Michal Linial and Prof. Nati Linial at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I am also currently consulting to several biotech companies in subjects of data analysis, modeling and genetics.

I am interested in various aspects of statistical and population genetics, and the power they give us to understand our present and our past. Specifically:

• Theory and methods development, both from a classical model-based approach (coalescent theory etc.) and modern machine-learning methodologies
• Data analysis of mutations and recombinations, to understand the molecular mechanisms and patterns underlying genetic inheritance and disease
• Applications across various domains, such as demography inference, evolution, detecting selection, phylodynamics of pathogens, and more
• Analysis and applications of long-read sequencing technology