Richard Karp is Professor of Computer Science at University of Washington. He is the recipient of the 1985 ACM Turing Award (the "Nobel Prize" in Computing) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Areas of interest: combinatorial algorithms and their application in molecular biology.
Jonathan King is Professor of Biology in the Department of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Biomedical Electron Microscope Facility. He is Councillor of the Biophysical Society and a recipient of the Antartic Service Medal of the National Science Foundation. Areas of interest: the folding of large proteins, the structure and assembly of virus particles, and the genetic control of biological assembly processes.
Irwin Kuntz is professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF Molecular Design Institute, and he is the 1996 UCSF Faculty Lecturer. He is one of the most influential pioneers in the area of rational drug design, the creator of the DOCK drug design program and the developer of the distance geometry methods widely used in biochemistry. Areas of interest: protein folding, protein structure determination, and ligand-macromolecule interactions.
Michael Waterman is the USC Endowed Associates Chair Professor of Mathematics and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His pioneering research in global sequence alignment, predicting RNA secondary structures and inferring evolutionary histories established rigorous foundations that fostered the development of the field of Computational Molecular Biology. He is the co-author of the Smith-Waterman local alignment algorithm, and the co-author of the Lander-Waterman formulas for the analysis and design of physical mapping experiments. Areas of interest: computational molecular biology.
Sarina Bromberg is a Computational Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Areas of interest: protein folding, stability, and cooperative conformational changes.
Steve Bryant is a Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. Areas of interest: protein structure modelling, structure comparison, structure database design.
Martin Farach is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. Areas of interest: algorithmic phylogeny, string matching, design and analysis of combinatorial algorithms.
Nat Goodman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Associate Director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, and Senior Staff Scientist at the Jackson Laboratory. Areas of interest: informatics systems for genomics.
Dan Gusfield is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Davis. Areas of interest: combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, string matching, computational molecular biology.
William Hart is a Computational Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Areas of interest: computational biology, stochastic methods for global optimization.
Tao Jiang is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at McMaster University, and is now on sabatical at the University of Washington. Areas of interest: multiple sequence alignment, restriction mapping, mathematical models for sequencing, evolutionary trees.
John Kececioglu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. Areas of interest: algorithms for DNA sequence assembly, genome rearrangements, and multiple sequence alignment.
Alan Lapedes is a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Areas of interest: protein folding.
Pavel Pevzner is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: computational molecular biology.
Cindy Phillips is a Computational Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Areas of interest: combinatorial optimization, scheduling theory, parallel computation, phylogenetic tree construction, multiple sequence alignment.
R. Ravi is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie-Mellon University. Areas of interest: approximation algorithms in molecular biology, combinatorial optimization.
Ron Shamir is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. Areas of interest: algorithms for genomic mapping, algorithmic graph theory and optimization.
Tandy Warnow is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Areas of interest: combinatorial optimization problems in phylogenetic tree construction, and methodological advances in historical linguistics.