Serghei Mangul
Affiliated Assistant Professor of Computational Biology
Research Interests
Professor Mangul's teaching and research interests span computational biology, bioinformatics, and data-driven approaches for integrating omics and biomedical data into translational research, with a focus on immunogenomics, genomic data infrastructure, and improving representation across diverse populations. Email
In addition to his position at MBZUAI, Professor Mangul serves on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Regents Working Group on the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) Strategic Transformation; previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Southern California and completed his postdoctoral training in computational genomics at UCLA.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Georgia State University, USA
- B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Moldova State University, Moldova
- Transformation, 2025–Present
- U.S. Fulbright Scholar, 2024-2025
- Founder, Bioinformatics for Ukraine International Initiative and the Eastern European Bioinformatics and Genomics Workshop (EEBG), 2022- present
- Recipient, ISCB Honorable Mention Award for Sustainability, 2025
- Mentor, Inaugural NIH cohort of the AIM-AHEAD Consortium, 2022-2023
- Collaboratory Fellow, QCBio Institute at UCLA, 2013-2019
- S Liu, J S Rodriguez, V Munteanu, C Ronkowski, N K Sharma, M Alser, F Andreace, R Blekhman, D B?aszczyk, R Chikhi, K A Crandall, K Della Libera, D Francis, A Frolova, A S Gancz, N E Huntley, P Jaiswal, T Kosciolek, P P Łabaj, W Łabaj, T Luan, C Mason, A M Moustafa, H S Muralidharan, O Mutlu, N Mansouri Ghiasi, A Rahnavard, F Sun, S Tian, B T Tierney, E Van Syoc, R Vicedomini, J P Zackular, A Zelikovsky, K Zielińska, E Ganda, E R Davenport, M Pop, D Koslicki, S Mangul: "Analysis of metagenomic data", Nature Reviews Methods Primers, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 23 2025, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00376-6.
- D Deshpande, K Chhugani, T Ramesh, M Pellegrini, S Shiffman, M S Abedalthagafi, S Alqahtani, J Ye, X Liu, J Leek, A Brazma, R Ophoff, G Rao, S Butte, J Moore, V Katritch, S Mangul: "The evolution of computational research in a data-centric world", Cell, Volume 187, Issue 17, August 22 2024, Pages 4463-4475, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.07.045.
- S Knyazev, K Chhugani, V Sarwal, R Ayyala, H Singh, S Karthikeyan, D Deshpande, P I Baykal, Z Comarova, A Lu, Y Porozov, T I Vasylyeva, J O Wertheim, B T Tierney, C Y Chiu, R Sun, A Wu, M S Abedalthagafi, V M Pak, S H Nagaraj, A L Smith, P Skums, B Pasaniuc, A Komissarov, C E Mason, E Bortz, P Lemey, F Kondrashov, N Beerenwinkel, T T Lam, N C Wu, A Zelikovsky, R Knight, K A Crandall, S Mangul: "Unlocking capacities of genomics for the COVID-19 response and future pandemics", Nature Methods, Volume 19, Issue 4, April 2022, Pages 374-380, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01444-z
- K Mitchell, J Brito, I Mandric, Q Wu, S Knyazev, S Chang, L S Martin, A Karlsberg, E Gerasimov, R Littman, B L Hill, N C Wu, H T Yang, K Hsieh, L Chen, E Littman, T Shabani, G Enik, D Yao, R Sun, J Schroeder, E Eskin, A Zelikovsky, P Skums, M Pop, S Mangul: "Benchmarking of computational error-correction methods for next-generation sequencing data", Genome Biology, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 17 2020, 71, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-01988-3
- S Mangul, L S Martin, B L Hill, A K Lam, M G Distler, A Zelikovsky, E Eskin, J Flint: "Systematic benchmarking of omics computational tools", Nature Communications, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 27 2019, 1393, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09406-4