Assistant Professor
Email: marmar.moussa@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5427
Office: Devon Energy Hall Room 253
Website: Google Scholar
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering
Alexandria University
B.S., Computer Science
Alexandria University
Research Focus
Experience
Biography
Dr. Marmar Moussa joined the University of Oklahoma in July 2023 as assistant professor at the School of Computer Science, Gallogly College of Engineering. Prior to that, Dr. Moussa served as assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut (2021-2023) where she was a postdoctoral fellow (2019-2021). She is an experienced computer engineer and basic scientist with research interests in computational biology and cancer immuno-omics. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering 2019 with a focus on Computational Genomics from UConn, where she also received the prestigious CSE Taylor Booth Fellowship. Additionally, Dr. Moussa holds two M.Sc. degrees in CSE focus areas Bioinformatics (2018, University of Connecticut) and Cryptography(2004, Alexandria University, EG).
Dr. Moussa’s research passion includes the design of advanced algorithms and machine learning methods for single cell genomics applied to Cancer Immunology. Her work includes publications in Science Immunology, Nature, Journal of Clinical investigations, Nature Communications, BMC Genomics, Journal of Computational Biology, and others. Dr. Moussa's recent funding includes the NIH-NCI K25 Career Development Award (K25CA270079 M. Moussa PI, $993,605) and NSF2212512 (M. Moussa PI, $200,000) for projects studying tumor etiology, evolution, and the tumor microenvironment in single cell resolution.