Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Karchin, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003, and she received their Distinguished Alumna Award in 2021. In 2003, she began a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, San Francisco and joined the Hopkins faculty in 2006. Dr. Karchin has a joint appointment in the Department of Oncology, a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science, and is a core member of the Institute for Computational Medicine at the Whiting School of Engineering. Her lab develops algorithms and tools to predict the impact of genomic variants and to model how tumors evolve and how they interact with the immune system. In 2017, she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for her contributions to translational computational biology. In 2025, she was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow.