Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner () is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the

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Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at

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.HHMI Scientist bio

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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

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while working for the Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined

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's laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at the

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for two years as a

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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

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and having written several books on

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and

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. In 1992, Pevzner took the position of

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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

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

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

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Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007) *

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(2010), for ''contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics'' *

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degree (2011) from

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(2012) * ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2017) * ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2018)

References

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