Tandy Warnow | |
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Born | Tandy Jo Warnow |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD) |
Spouse | George Chacko |
Children | 2 |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science Computational Biology Phylogenetics Metagenomics Multiple Sequence Alignment[1] |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Pennsylvania University of Texas |
Thesis | Combinatorial algorithms for constructing phylogenetic trees (1991) |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Lawler[2] |
Other academic advisors | Michael Waterman Simon Tavare[citation needed] |
Doctoral students | Luay Nakhleh[3] |
Website | tandy |
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]