Tandy Warnow

W. W. Grainger Chair and Professor, Computer Science

Areas of Research

Algorithms, Big Data, Computer Science, Metagenomics, Statistics

Research Program and Theme

Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science
Theme: Computational Engineering and Data Science

Research Focus

Tandy Warnow’s research combines mathematics, computer science, probability, and statistics to develop algorithms with improved accuracy for large-scale, complex estimation problems in computing evolutionary trees (also known as phylogenies) from any kind of data. Warnow has active research projects in phylogenomics (genome-scale species tree estimation), multiple sequence alignment, and metagenomics. She is interested in statistical inference and NP-hard optimization problems for large datasets, where novel algorithms are needed to address heterogeneity and reduce computational requirements.