Bernard M. E. Moret (born 1953) is a Swiss-American
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
, an emeritus professor of Computer Science at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. He is known for his work in computational phylogenetics, and in particular for mathematics and methods for computing phylogenetic trees using genome rearrangement events.
Biography
Moret was born in 1953 in
Vevey Switzerland, and did his undergraduate studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), graduating in 1975. He went on to graduate studies at the
University of Tennessee, earning a Ph.D. in 1980. He then joined the faculty of the
University of New Mexico, where he remained until 2006, when he moved to EPFL.
[Curriculum vitae](_blank)
as of 2016, retrieved 2019-10-24. He retired from EPFL in December 2016.
In 1996, Moret founded the ''
ACM
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Aviation
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* Air chief marshal
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* Air cycle machine
* Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia
Computing
* ...
Journal of Experimental Algorithmics'', and he remained editor in chief of the journal until 2003. In 2001, Moret founded the Workshop in Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI) and remains on the Steering Committee for the conference.
In 2018, Moret was elected as a
Fellow of the
International Society for Computational Biology, for his outstanding contributions to the fields of
computational biology
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and
bioinformatics
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.
Publications
Moret is the author of ''The Theory of Computation'' (Addison-Wesley, 1998). With H. D. Shapiro, he is the co-author of ''Algorithms from P to NP, Volume I: Design and Efficiency'' (Benjamin Cummings, 1991).
He has also written many highly cited research papers in bioinformatics, including papers on calculating the minimum genetic rearrangement distance between a pair of related genomes
and on
evolutionary tree reconstruction.
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References
External links
Lab pageat EPFL
Old home pageat the University of New Mexico
Citationsat Google Scholar
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1953 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Swiss bioinformaticians
University of Tennessee alumni
University of New Mexico faculty