Ken Chen (computational biologist)

Ken Chen is a computational biologist whose work spans cancer genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and computational oncology. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he directs bioinformatics programs in personalized cancer therapy and single-cell genomics. He is known for developing BreakDancer, a computational algorithm for detecting genomic structural variation, and for contributing bioinformatics methods to major international consortia including The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the 1000 Genomes Project, and the Human Cell Atlas.