Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner () is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego.HHMI Scientist bio , Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed June 13, 2011 He serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.Scientific Advisory Board , Genome Institute of Singapore.
Education Pevzner received his Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology while working for the Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined Michael Waterman's laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.
Career and research Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, serving as a founding instructor for the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera and having written several books on bioinformatics and computational biology.
In 1992, Pevzner took the position of associate professor at Pennsylvania State University.
In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a professor of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology. Since 2000, he has been the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego and he is the director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.
Books Computational Molecular Biology, MIT Press, 2000 An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, MIT Press, 2004 (co-authored with Neil Jones) Bioinformatics for Biologists, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ron Shamir) Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach, Active Learning Publishers, 2014 (co-authored with Phillip Compeau)
Awards and honors NSF Young Investigator Award (1994, 1995) HHMI Professor award (2006) from the Howard Hughes Medical InstituteHHMI Names 20 New Million-Dollar Professors: Top Research Scientists Tapped for their Teaching Talent , Howard Hughes Medical Institute news-release, April 5, 2006. Accessed June 13, 2011. UCSD Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007)UCSD Faculty Excellence Awards 2007 — Pavel Pevzner ACM Fellow (2010), for contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomicsACM Fellow profile, Association for Computing Machinery. Accessed June 13, 2011TWO UC SAN DIEGO COMPUTER SCIENTISTS RECOGNIZED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS SECURITY, BIOINFORMATICS, University of California, San Diego news release, December 8, 2010. Accessed June 13, 2011. Honoris causa degree (2011) from Simon Fraser UniversityHonorary Degree Citations: The degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, conferred on Dr. Pevzner, Friday, June 17, 2011 . ISCB Fellow (2012) ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2017) ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2018)
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