Research
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.
Education
- Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Campus Affiliations
- Associate Head, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
- W. W. Grainger Chair, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
- Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
- Professor, Mathematics
- Professor, Statistics
- Professor, Coordinated Science Lab
- Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- Affiliate, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
- Affiliate, Entomology
- Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Co-Chief Scientist, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Select Honors and Recognitions
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010
- AAAS Fellow, 2021
- ACM Fellow, 2015