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Phillip Compeau

Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University

About me

Phillip Compeau is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Computational Biology Department, where he serves as Assistant Director of the Master's in Computational Biology program. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from UC San Diego and completed his Master's degree at Cambridge University. Phillip co-founded Rosalind, an online platform for learning bioinformatics. A retired tennis player, he dreams of one day going pro in golf.