I am a full Professor at the University Paris-Saclay. My research interests include data science and bioinformatics, biological data integration, reproducibilty of bioinformatics pipelines, scientific workflows, provenance, and ranking. 

Current activities

Research
I am a senior member of the "Institut Universitaire de France" (2025). 
I am the project coordinator of the ShareFAIR project that aims at sharing reliable protocols to transform datasets into gold standards, applied to Neuro-Vascular Pathologies. ShareFAIR involves 9 partners and is an axis of the PEPR "Santé Numérique".
I am deputy director of the DATAIA institute and I co-coordinate the "DATAIA AI-cluster", pole of excellence in artificial intelligence research and training.  

Teaching
I co-coordinate the M1-M2 master tracks BIBS - AMI2B.
I am the project coordinator of the SaclAI-School training program at the Paris-Saclay University, which aims to train everyone in Artificial Intelligence, from AI acculturation to Artificial Intelligence expertise.

News

Bioinformatics paper accepted

Our paper on Supporting Workflow Reproducibility by Linking Bioinformatics Tools across Papers and Executable Code was accepted on July 30th 2026, you can find it here

CNRS silver medal

I am happy to share that I have been awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2024: https://www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/science-des-donnees-et-interdisciplinarite-sarah-cohen-boulakia-recompensee-par-le-cnrs.