Daniel P. Miranker is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. His father is

Willard L. Miranker Willard L. Miranker (March 8, 1932 – April 28, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to applied mathematics and numerical mathematics. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned B.A. (1952), M. ...

. He co-founded Capsenta with Juan Sequeda in 2015, which stemmed from their research project, Ultrawrap. Capsenta was acquired by data.world in June 2019. His academic interests are in

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

and the Semantic Web

Education

Miranker earned an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from MIT in 1979 and a

PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ...

in Computer Science from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1987, under the supervision of

Salvatore Stolfo Salvatore J. Stolfo is an academic and professor of computer science at Columbia University, specializing in computer security. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Stolfo received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathemat ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miranker, Daniel P. Living people Columbia University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Semantic Web people Year of birth missing (living people)