Jorge I. Vélez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla


I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. My research interests span applied analytics, bioinformatics, population genetics and Machine Learning.

I earned a PhD degree in Medical Sciences with emphasis in Genomics and Precision Medicine from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University under the supervision of Mauricio Arcos-Burgos. Before moving to Australia, I conducted research on statistical genetics and bioinformatics at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MD, USA under the supervision of Max Muenke and Mauricio Arcos-Burgos, within the Medical Genetics Branch.

Since October 2022, I lead the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) SGR study. This initiative is dedicated to unraveling the genetic landscape associated to AD susceptibility, age of onset, and disease progression in individuals from the Atlántico Department.

Please feel free to contact me by email. You can find my CV here.






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