Adam Siepel: Biography

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Adam Siepel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University. His research focuses on comparative genomics, particularly of mammals, and includes a mixture of statistical modeling, algorithms development, software implementation, and scientific discovery. Siepel received a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell in 1994, then worked in software development for bioinformatics for several years in the late 1990s, first at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then at the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe. In 2001, he received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico, and, in 2005, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. Siepel is a winner of a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship, and an National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Genome Research and PLoS Computational Biology, on advisory/review panels for the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Science Foundation, and on the Program Committees of the RECOMB and WABI computational biology conferences. He teaches courses in computational genomics and machine learning at Cornell, and is a member of the graduate fields of Computational Biology, Computer Science, Biometry, and Genetics & Development.

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