Rick Farouni

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University, USA, 2017.
M.Sc., The Ohio State University, USA, 2015.
BA, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2012.

Professional Interests

bioinformatics Explainable/interpretable AI Deep Learning Machine Learning Bayesian statistics

Employment history

Bioinformatics Scientist. 2020-2026.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Switzerland.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biology. 2018-2020.

McGill University-Génome Québec. Canada.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biology. 2017-2018.

Harvard Medical School-MGH. USA.

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Statistics. 2013–2017.

The Ohio State University. USA.

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Sep

2026

A Comfortable Environment and Computing Power: Why International Researchers Choose HSE

Rick Farouni received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2017 and has worked at Harvard University, McGill University, and ETH Zurich. In spring 2026, he was selected through the International Academic Career programme as part of HSE University’s international recruitment drive and joined the Big Data and Information Retrieval School at the Faculty of Computer Science as an Associate Professor. Dr Farouni told the HSE News Service why he decided to move to Russia and work at HSE.