Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner (russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at

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. Accessed June 13, 2011 He serves on the Editorial Board of

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and he is a member of the

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scientific advisory board.

Education

Pevzner received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology while working for Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined

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's laboratory at the Department of Mathematics at the

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for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.

Career and research

Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, serving as a founding instructor for th
Bioinformatics Specialization
on Coursera and having written several books on

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and

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. In 1992, Pevzner took a position of an

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at the

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. In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Molecular Biology. Since 2000, he has been the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the

and he is the Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.

Books

* ''Computational Molecular Biology'', MIT Press, 2000
''An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms''
MIT Press, 2004 (co-authored with Neil Jones) * ''Bioinformatics for Biologists'', Cambridge University Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ron Shamir)
''Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach''
Active Learning Publishers, 2014 (co-authored with Phillip Compeau)

Awards and honors

NSF Young Investigator Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

(1994, 1995) * HHMI Professor award (2006) from the

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Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007) * ACM Fellow (2010), for ''contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics'' *

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degree (2011) from Simon Fraser University * ISCB Fellow (2012) *

ISCB Senior Scientist Award The ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award is an annual prize awarded by the International Society for Computational Biology for contributions to the field of computational biology. Laureates *2021 - Peer Bork *2020 - Steven Salzberg *20 ...

(2017) * ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2018)

References

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