Christina Leslie

Christina Sunita Leslie is a Canadian-American computational biologist whose research applies machine learning to genomics and the patterns of gene transcription, particularly in the study of cancer. She is particularly known for her research on string kernels for support vector machine classification of biological sequences. She works at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a scientist in the Computational & Systems Biology Program, and holds an additional affiliation as a professor in the Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University.