Profile
Sumner Magruder, Ph.D., joined the Stowers Institute in 2025 as the inaugural AI Fellow, advancing foundational biology through machine learning, data science, and explainable AI. Trained across computer science, biology, computational biology, and neuroscience, he holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University and a Ph.D. in biology from Universität Hamburg. His research spans single-cell analysis, neural modeling, and biomedical machine learning, with a focus on making complex models interpretable and useful at the bench.
