Pavel A. Pevzner

Pavel Pevzner
Pavel Pevzner in 2011
Born	Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner
Fields	Bioinformatics, Computational biology Systems biology
Institutions	University of Southern California Pennsylvania State University University of California, San Diego
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Thesis	(1988)
Academic advisors	Michael Waterman
Doctoral students	Max Alekseyev, Vineet Bafna, Nuno Bandeira, Guillaume Bourque, Mark Chaisson, Phillip Compeau, Nitin Gupta, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Earl Hubbell, Neil Jones, Qian Peng, Son Pham, Sing-Hoi Sze, Degui Zhi[1]
Notable awards	ACM Fellow ISCB Fellow ISCB Senior Scientist Award
Website cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ppevzner

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 University of California, San Diego.^[2][3] He serves on the Editorial Board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.^[4]

Research

Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level,^[5][6] serving as a founding instructor for the Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera^[7] and having written several books on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.^{[3][8][9][10]}

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 Michael Waterman's laboratory at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.

Career

In 1992, Pevzner took a position of an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University.

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 University of California, San Diego 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

• NSF Young Investigator Award (1994, 1995)^[11][12]
• HHMI Research Professor award (2006) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute^[13]
• UCSD Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007)^[14]
• ACM Fellow (2010), for contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics^[15][16]
• Honoris causa degree (2011) from Simon Fraser University^[17]
• ISCB Fellow (2012)
• ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2017)^[18]

References

External links

• Pavel Pevzner's CV