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Pavel Pevzner

Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at The University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego

Areas of expertise

  • - - Bioinformatics algorithms
  • - - Genome rearrangements
  • - - DNA sequencing
  • - - Computational proteomics

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About me

Pavel Pevzner is Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor (2006-present), an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (2010), and an International Society for Computational Biology Fellow (2012). In addition to Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach, he has authored the textbooks Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach (2000) and An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (2004) (jointly with Neil Jones).