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 Martin Tompa
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Martin Tompa, Professor, graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1978. For the next 7 years he was on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Washington, where he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984, the inaugural year for these awards. From 1985 to 1989 he was on the staff of the IBM Research Division at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and became manager of its Theory of Computation group. In 1989, he rejoined the Computer Science faculty at UW, and in 1998 and 1999 received the first two annual ACM Undergraduate Teaching Awards. In 2001 he became Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences and in 2009 he became Director of the UW's interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Computational Molecular Biology.

Martin's research interests are in computational molecular biology, with emphases on biological sequence analysis, regulatory analysis, and comparative genomics.

 

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