Adam Siepel: Biography

Brief Biography

I am from West Valley, NY, a small town south of Buffalo. From 1990-1994 I attended Cornell University, then I ventured west, living in Montana for a short time and then moving to New Mexico. I discovered computational biology while working on the HIV Database project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Initially I was more interested in the engineering side of the field than the scientific side, and I left Los Alamos in 1996 to take a job as a software engineer at the National Center for Genome Resources, a private not-for-profit organization in Santa Fe. While I was at NCGR, I did a Master's in CS at the University of New Mexico, where I was introduced to algorithms and theoretical computer science by Bernard Moret. My interests gradually shifted from engineering to mathematics and biology, and in 2002, I moved to Santa Cruz, CA, to join David Haussler's lab as a full-time Ph.D. student. In Santa Cruz, I became fascinated by molecular evolution, comparative genomics, and computational statistics, and these became the ingredients of my Ph.D. dissertation. In 2006, I took a faculty position in Cornell's Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology. I now live with my wife Amber and children Ella and Charlie in Ithaca's pleasant Belle Sherman neighborhood, a short walk away from the Cornell campus.

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