 Michael Waterman, Ph.D. Michael Waterman holds an Endowed Associates Chair at the University of Southern California. He came to USC in 1982 after positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University. His bachelors in Mathematics is from Oregon State University, and his PhD in Statistics and Probability is from Michigan State University. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow (1995), was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences (1995) and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2001). Also he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has held visiting positions at the University of Hawaii (1979-80), the University of California at San Francisco (1982), Mt. Sinai Medical School (1988) Chalmers University (2000) and in 2000-2001 he held the Aisenstadt Chair at University of Montreal. He is Professor-at-large at the Keck Graduate Institute of Life Sciences and in fall 2000 he became the first Fellow of Celera Genomics. Professor Waterman works in the area of Computational Biology, concentrating on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA, and protein sequence data. He is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formula for physical mapping. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Computational Biology, is on the editorial board of seven journals, and is author of the text Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences and Genomes. Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics University of Southern California 1042W 36th Place, DRB 155 Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113 Phone: (213) 740-2408 Fax: (213) 740-2437 msw@hto.usc.edu MORE INFORMATION For information on research projects, publications, etc. click here. |
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