Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:03:27 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 23:26:46 GMT Content-length: 3354 Michael S. Waterman

Michael S. Waterman

Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Biological Sciences
Professor of Computer Science

University of Southern California

MAIL: Denney Research Building, DRB 155
ADDRESS: Los Angeles, California 90089-1113
PHONE: (213) 740-2409
FAX: (213) 740-2424
OFFICE: DRB 284
EMAIL: msw@hto.usc.edu


Michael Waterman holds an Endowed Associates Chair at USC. He came to USC in 1982 after positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University. His bachelors in Mathematics is from Oregon State University, and his PhD in Statistics and Probability is from Michigan State University. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow (1995) and was elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences in 1995. Also he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Professor Waterman works in the area of Computational Biology, concentrating on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA, and protein sequence data. He is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formula for physical mapping. He is a founding editor of Journal of Computational Biology, and author of the text Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, sequences and genomes.

Books Research Papers
Papers Online

USC Computational Biology Home Page


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