Anna C. Belkina is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Boston University School of Medicine. Anna’s research is focused on the intersection of immunology and computational biology and her research efforts include investigating the immune landscape of chronic inflammatory diseases and developing computational techniques to assess high-parameter single cell cytometry data. She has designed the opt-SNE algorithm that is now widely used for the visualization of multidimensional cytometry datasets. Over the last several years, Anna has been working on spectral cytometry applications in immunology and stem cell research as well as computational analysis of spectral cytometry data. Anna is an active member of ISAC (International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry) and has been named 2015-2019 ISAC SRL Emerging Leader. She is a member of the ISAC Council elected for the 2020-2024 term.