Dr. Peña-Castillo is a Professor at the Departments of Biology and Computer Science (jointly appointed) at Memorial University Faculty of Science. Her current main area of research is the application of statistical- and machine learning-based methods to decipher bacterial gene regulation. Throughout her academic career, she has developed and/or applied artificial intelligence or machine learning methods in various areas such as biomedical sciences, games, and augmented virtuality.
Postdoc in Bioinformatics
University of Toronto, Canada
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Doktoringenieurin)
Otto von Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
M.Sc. in Computer Science
University of Alberta, Canada
BSc in Information Systems Engineering
Technological Institute of Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico