Tandy Warnow

Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born
Tandy Jo Warnow
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD)
SpouseGeorge Chacko
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Computational Biology
Phylogenetics
Metagenomics
Multiple Sequence Alignment[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas
ThesisCombinatorial algorithms for constructing phylogenetic trees (1991)
Doctoral advisorEugene Lawler[2]
Other academic advisorsMichael Waterman
Simon Tavare[citation needed]
Doctoral studentsLuay Nakhleh[3]
Websitetandy.cs.illinois.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Tandy Warnow is an American computer scientist and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[4][5] She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.[6]

  1. ^ Tandy Warnow publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Warnow, Tandy Jo (1991). Combinatorial algorithms for constructing phylogenetic trees (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 25765772. ProQuest 303937362.
  3. ^ Nakhleh, Luay (2004). Phylogenetic networks (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. hdl:2152/2126.
  4. ^ Tandy Warnow's Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Tandy Warnow Curriculum vitae" (PDF)., retrieved 2020-09-10.
  6. ^ Warnow, Tandy (2017), Computational Phylogenetics: An Introduction to Designing Methods for Phylogeny Estimation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107184718