Lawrence Hunter
| Lawrence E. Hunter | |
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Larry Hunter in 2002
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| Born | Lawrence E. Hunter January 18, 1961 United States |
| Fields |
Computational Biology Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Thesis | Knowledge acquisition planning: Gaining expertise through experience (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roger Schank |
| Doctoral students | J. Gregory Caporaso Imran Shah Lorraine Tanabe Ronald Taylor Anis Karimpour-Fard Steve Russell Sonia Leach Zhiyong Lu |
| Known for |
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) |
| Notable awards |
Engelmore Prize for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2003 (presented by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) |
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Engelmore Prize for Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2003 (presented by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 2002-
Regent's Award for Scholarship and Technical Achievement 1994
Meritorious Service Award, National Library of Medicine, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Excellence in Research Award, University of Colorado School of Medicine Dept. of Pharmacology, 2007
Professor Lawrence E. Hunter is Director of the Center for Computational Biology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an internationally known scholar, focused on computational biology, knowledge-driven extraction of information from the primary biomedical literature, the semantic integration of knowledge resources in molecular biology, and the use of knowledge in the analysis of high-throughput data, as well as for his foundational work in computational biology, which led to the genesis of the major professional organization in the field and two international conferences.
Hunter completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1989, Knowledge Acquisition Planning: Gaining Expertise Through Experience, on diagnosis of lung cancer from histological images using Case-based reasoning, under the guidance of Roger Schank. Faced with a choice between careers in the main applications of artificial intelligence---game programming and defense work—Hunter chose to create a new discipline, bioinformatics. From 1989 to 2000, Hunter worked as a computer scientist and section chief for National Institutes of Health sections devoted to statistical and bioinformatic research. He was an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University from 1991 through 2000 and an associate professor in the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine from 2000 to 2008. He was promoted to professor in 2008.
In 1997, Hunter founded what has become the largest professional organization in computational biology and bioinformatics, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
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