Steven Salzberg
| Steven Salzberg | |
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Steven Salzberg in 2010.
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| Born | 1960 (age 56–57) |
| Institutions |
University of Maryland, College Park The Institute for Genomic Research Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Harvard University |
| Thesis | Learning with nested generalized exemplars (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Aaron Woods |
| Doctoral students |
Sreerama Murthy Samuel Angiuoli David Kelley Benjamin Langmead Daehwan Kim Derrick Wood |
| Other notable students | Olga Troyanskaya |
| Known for |
GLIMMER MUMmer AMOS assembler Bowtie TopHat Cufflinks |
| Notable awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2013) |
| Spouse | Claudia Salzberg (née Pasche) |
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Website salzberg-lab |
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Sreerama Murthy
John Sheppard
Mihaela (Ela) Pertea
Jonathan Allen
Adam Phillippy
Michael Schatz
Bruce Cole Trapnell
Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology.
Salzberg did his undergraduate studies at Yale University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1980. In 1981 he returned to Yale, and he received his Master of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees in Computer Science in 1982 and 1984. After several years in a startup company, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1989.
Before joining Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2011, he was the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was also the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science. From 1998-2005, he was the head of the Bioinformatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research, one of the world's largest genome sequencing centers, and prior to that he was a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University.
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