{"id":6866,"date":"2025-08-11T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=6866"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:08:10","slug":"tarek-zikry-phd","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/directory\/tarek-zikry-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarek Zikry, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 24px\">Research Areas<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dimensionality reduction, statistical machine learning, validation and interpretation of unsupervised learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, precision medicine, cancer, neuroscience<\/p>\n<h3>Bio<\/h3>\n<p>Tarek Zikry is an assistant professor in the School of Data Science and Society. 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