Tandy Warnow
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 | 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
Biography
Warnow did both her undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics at the
Research and career
After
In 1995, research by Warnow,
In 2009, Warnow and her colleagues released their SATé software for co-estimating biological multiple sequence alignments and evolutionary trees.[10] Their software is based less strongly on firm mathematical principles than some previous co-estimation methods (such as BAli-Phy[11]), but is significantly faster, allowing the fast construction of highly accurate trees and alignments for thousands of species. In comparison, the slow performance of previous methods limited them to only comparing dozens of species at a time.[12][13]
Her work since 2014 has focused on three topics: scaling multiple sequence alignments to ultra-large datasets, species tree estimation using multiple genes (and addressing gene tree heterogeneity due to incomplete lineage sorting), and metagenomics. Her major contributions in these topics include the PASTA method for co-estimation of alignments and trees, which improves on SATé, and can produce highly accurate alignments with up to 1,000,000 sequences.[14] She has also developed the ASTRAL method for species tree estimation, which is a statistically consistent method for constructing species trees in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting.[15]
Awards and honors
Warnow was named a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering in 2020 and Founder Professor of Engineering in 2014 (both at UIUC), and the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professorship in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.[5] Warnow also received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2011, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship in 2003, a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1994.[5] In 2015, she was named a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "For contributions to mathematical theory, algorithms, and software for large-scale molecular phylogenetics and historical linguistics".[16] In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).[17] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[18]
Personal life
Warnow's mother was noted archivist
References
- ^ Tandy Warnow publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ ProQuest 303937362.
- ^
Nakhleh, Luay (2004). Phylogenetic networks (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. hdl:2152/2126.
- ^ Tandy Warnow's Official website
- ^ a b c d "Tandy Warnow Curriculum vitae" (PDF)., retrieved 2020-09-10.
- ISBN 9781107184718
- ^ Tandy Jo Warnow at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- New York Times.
- S2CID 162958.
- S2CID 8667974.
- PMID 16679334.
- ^ "Method For Computing Evolutionary Trees Could Revolutionize Evolutionary Biology", ScienceDaily, June 18, 2009.
- ^ Kloc, Joe (July 1, 2009), "How to build a better tree of life: An unconventional approach to analyzing molecular sequences allows researchers to construct larger evolutionary trees", Seed, archived from the original on July 4, 2009.
- PMID 25549288.
- PMID 26072508.
- ^ "ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age". ACM. 8 December 2015. Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ^ "February 13, 2017: The International Society for Computational Biology Names Seven Members as the ISCB Fellows Class of 2017". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "2021 Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
- ^ University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Archivedfrom the original on 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Archivedfrom the original on 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2023-04-17.