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Population genomics

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New York University
Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences , education = , alma_mater = New York University (PhD) , thesis_title = Algorithmic techniques in Computational Genomics , thesis_url = https://cs.nyu.edu/media/publications/parida_laxmi.pdf , thesis_year = 1998 , doctoral_advisor =

Bud Mishra Bhubaneswar Mishra (born 9 November 1961) is an Indian American computer scientist and professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He is known for his applied contributions to bioinformatics, cybersecur ...

, academic_advisors = , doctoral_students = , notable_students = , known_for = , influences = , influenced = , awards = , website = Laxmi Parida is an IBM Master Inventor and group leader in computational genomics at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York.

Education

Parida was educated at New York University (NYU) where she was awarded a

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in 1998 for research on algorithms for computational genomics supervised by

Research and career

Parida's research interests are in computational genomics, population genomics,

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 ...

cancer genomics Oncogenomics is a sub-field of genomics that characterizes cancer-associated genes. It focuses on genomic, epigenomic and transcript alterations in cancer. Cancer is a genetic disease caused by accumulation of DNA mutations and epigenetic alterati ...

, topological data analysis and their applications to

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Awards and honors

Parida was awarded Fellowship of the ISCB in 2020 for outstanding contributions to

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

and bioinformatics. She was also awarded an IBM Fellowship and IBM Master Inventor status in 2019. She is a member of the

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(ACM) and the

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(SIAM).

References

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