Michael Waterman
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Michael Waterman in 2004
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Michael Spencer Waterman June 28, 1942 (age 75) Coquille, Oregon |
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Oregon State University Michigan State University (PhD) |
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| Website | dornsife |
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| Thesis | Some Ergodic Properties of Multi-Dimensional F-Expansions (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Rankin Kinney |
| Notable students | Pavel Pevzner (postdoc) |
| Influences | Temple F. Smith |
Michael Spencer Waterman (born June 28, 1942) is a Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously held positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University.
He grew up near Bandon, Oregon and earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Oregon State University, followed by a PhD in statistics and probability from Michigan State University in 1969.
Waterman is one of the founders and current leaders in the area of computational biology. He focuses on applying mathematics, statistics, and computer science techniques to various problems in molecular biology. His work has contributed to some of the most widely used tools in the field. In particular, the Smith-Waterman algorithm (developed with Temple F. Smith) is the basis for many sequence alignment programs. In 1988, Waterman and Eric Lander published a landmark paper describing a mathematical model for fingerprint mapping. This work formed one of the theoretical cornerstones for many of the later DNA mapping and sequencing projects, especially the Human Genome Project. A 1995 paper by Idury and Waterman introduced Eulerian-De Bruijn sequence assembly which is widely used in next-generation sequencing projects.
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