Tandy Warnow, brief vita

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics, 1991.

Honors

• NSF NYI (Young Investigator Award) 1994-2000
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship 1995-2001

Current Grants:

• NSF DEB 0733029 (ATOL): Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Simultaneous Multiple Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation. Collaborative grant with the University of Georgia, The University of Nebraska, and the University of Kansas (I am the overall project director). Total amount: $1.7 Million for the entire project.
• NSF ITR 0331453 (Large): Building the Tree of Life -- A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics. PI: Warnow, 2003-2008. Collaborative with 4 other institutions (UCSD, UNM, Florida State University, and UC Berkeley). I am the overall project director. Total amount: $11.6 Million for the entire project. See The CIPRES Project web page for more information on this project.
• NSF ITR BCS 0312830 (small): Collaborative Research, Algorithms for Inferring Reticulate Evolution in Historical Linguistics. PI: Warnow, (with Donald Ringe, at the University of Pennsylvania), 2003-2007. Total amount: $344,517. See our Computational Phylogenetics for Historical Linguistics web page.
• NSF ITR/AP 0121680 (medium): Collaborative Research, Reconstructing Complex Evolutionary Histories. PI: Warnow, 2001-2007. Total amount: $1,707,458. See The Complex Evolution Project web page for more information on this project.
• NSF IGERT DGE 0114387: Computational Phylogenetics and Applications to Biology. Pi: Hillis, Co-PIs Warnow, Jansen, and Gutell, 2001-2007. Total amount: $2,741,575.
• NSF DEB 0120709: Comparative Chloroplast Genomics: Integrating Computational Methods, Molecular Evolution, and Phylogeny. PI: Robert Jansen, Co-PIs Warnow and Raubeson, 2001-2007. Total amount: $1,350,000.

Academic Positions

• 1991-1992. Postdoc in the Mathematics Department at the University of Southern California.
• 1992-1993. Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories.
• 1993-1998. Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania
• 1998-1999. Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
• 1999-2003. Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
• 2003-present. Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Visiting Positions

• Research Associate, Yale University Department of Computer Science, 1997-1998
• Visiting Professor, Princeton University Department of Computer Science, 1997-1998
• Visiting Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Arizona, 1998-1999
• Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1998-1999
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 2002-2004.
• Visiting Researcher, The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, 2004-2005. <\li>

Students and Postdocs

Current PhD students:

• Kevin Liu
• Michelle Swenson
• Sindhu Raghavan

Former:

• Kevin Atteson (former postdoc)
• Francois Barbancon (former postdoc)
• Daniel Huson (formerly at Celera, now a Professor of Bioinformatics in Tuebingen, Germany)
• Ganesh Ganapathy (now a postdoc at Nescent).
• Libby Levison (former postdoc)
• Luay Nakhleh (former PhD student, now an assistant professor of Computer Science at Rice University)
• Ken Rice (former postdoc, now at Glaxo Smith-Kline).
• Usman Roshan (former PhD student, now an assistant professor in Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Katherine St John (former postdoc, now Associate Professor of Computer Science at Lehman College)
• Ann Taylor (former postdoc)
• Li-San Wang (former PhD student - now a postdoc in Biology (with Junhyong Kim) at the University of Pennsylvania in Biology)
• Shibu Yooseph (former PhD student, now at Celera Genomics)

Service

• Advisory Board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2006-2009.
• Advisory Board, Springer, Computational Biology Book Series, 2005 - present.
• Participant, Institutes of Medicine Workshop on Interdisciplinary Programs and Academic Health Centers on Tuesday, September 26th, 2006.
• Member, Board of Directors, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), 2001-2004.
• Committee member, National Academy of Sciences Commmittee on Interdisciplinarity (2003-2004).
• Committee member, National Research Council Committee on Interdisciplinarity. (2003).
• Committee member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee for Biological Cyberinfranstructure (BIOACCI). (2003).
• Co-chair, Organizing Committee for the National Academy of Sciences, Japanese-American Frontiers of Science, 2003.
• Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Computational Biology, 2002-2005.
• Editorial Board, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (to 2004), and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (current).
• Co-chair, Phylogeny and Evolution, ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2006 and 2007.
• Co-chair, Program Committee, COCOON (Combinatorics and Computing) 2003.
• Co-chair, Program Committee, SODA (ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) 1999.
• Program committee member: ICALP 2005, ALENEX 2004, Workshop on Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI) 2001, 2002, and 2004; Workshop for Algorithms and Datastructures (WADS) 2001; Fun with Algorithms 2001; RECOMB 2001 and 2004; and Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 1999.