Christoph Hafemeister received the MSc degree in bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin, in 2008. From 2005 to 2009, he was a research assistant at the algorithms group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Department of Computational Molecular Biology, in Berlin. In 2010, he joined the New York University doctoral program in computational biology. His research interests include sequence analysis and machine learning methods such as clustering using mixture models and semisupervised learning, and the application of these models to elucidate gene regulation and developmental processes.