Bar Jacobi

Researcher, engineer

Bar Jacobi

Bar Jacobi

I am an incoming PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, where I will work on computational approaches for modeling biological systems.

I am completing an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University in Prof. Adi Stern’s lab. I develop methods for annotating viral proteins using sequence, predicted structure, evolutionary information, and protein language models.

Before pursuing research in computational biology, I earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technion and later worked as a Production Engineer at Meta.

Publications

  1. Diverse patterns of intra-host genetic diversity in chronically infected SARS-CoV-2 patients

    Adi Ben Zvi*, Natalie Rutsinsky*, Bar Jacobi, Ido Fabian, Shir Segev, Sheri Harari, Suzy Meijer, Yael Paran, Adi Stern

    Virus Evolution, 2025

    An analysis of the diverse trajectories of viral genetic diversity during chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection.