Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson

Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson serves as Division Director and Chief Scientist of computational biology in the Biological Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She holds multiple academic appointments including Clinical Volunteer Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Courtesy Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, and Clinical Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Sciences University.

Dr. Webb-Robertson earned her PhD in Engineering Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, an ME in Statistics from the same institution in 2000, and a BA in Mathematics from Oregon State University in 1997. With over 20 years of experience in statistics and data science, she has established herself as a leader in computational biology with an h-index of 30 and more than 100 publications.

Her research focuses on developing and applying advanced statistical and machine learning methods to address challenges associated with large and complex omics data. She specializes in mass spectrometry-based omics data analysis, statistical data integration, predictive modeling, and biomarker discovery. Her work has significant applications in biomedical research, particularly in understanding type 1 diabetes through multi-omics approaches.

Dr. Webb-Robertson's recent publications demonstrate a strong trajectory in type 1 diabetes biomarker discovery, multi-omics data integration, and the application of machine learning to biological problems. Her work spans proteomics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics with a focus on developing computational tools that can integrate multiple data types for improved biological insights.

• Chauncey and Doris Starr Graduate Fellowship, 1997
• GE Future Faculty Scholarship, 1999-2000
• National Science Foundation Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology Fellowship, 1999-2001
• HPC Analytics challenge in biology first place team member, 2007
• Spirit of nPOD award from the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes

Dr. Webb-Robertson serves in various editorial and advisory roles including Executive Editor for the Journal of Proteomics and Genomics Research, Review Editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund IBM Machine Learning Project, and member of the American Statistical Association. She actively contributes to the scientific community through these service roles while maintaining a productive research program focused on computational methods for biological data analysis.

Her laboratory develops computational tools for multi-omics data analysis with particular emphasis on applications in type 1 diabetes research. She leads a team that integrates expertise in statistics, machine learning, and biological domain knowledge to tackle complex biomedical problems, with a focus on biomarker discovery and early disease prediction.