Tandy Warnow

Tandy Warnow

W. W. Grainger Chair and Professor, Computer Science

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, in order to develop algorithms with improved accuracy for large-scale and complex estimation problems in computing evolutionary trees (also known as phylogenies) on 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.

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