Hilary Kiyo Finucane is an American computational biologist who is Co-Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute.
[1] She was an undergraduate student at Harvard College, where eventually majored in mathematics and spent her spare time taking part in chamber music.
She developed an analytical tool (the maximal information coefficient) that allows users to search complex data sets in an effort to identify meaningful relationships.
[1][4] She eventually started working with Alkes Price, with whom she developed statistical methods for understanding the genetic basis of human disease.
In particular, Finucane considered how specific parts of the genome relate to activity in different cell types, making use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to model these relationships.