Bio
Phillip Compeau
is a visiting researcher at UC San Diego. He is a Teaching Professor of Computational Biology and the Assistant Dean for Innovation in Computing Education in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Computational Biology and co-founded the Precollege Program in Computational Biology, a program teaching high school students computational biology that is the only program of its kind in the world. Together with Nikolay Vyahhi, he co-founded Rosalind, a free online resource for learning algorithmic biology , and he serves as the site's content editor. He is the co-author (with Pavel Pevzner) of the bestselling textbook, Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach, which has been adopted by over 100 institutions around the world. He also is the founder of Programming for Lovers, a free programming course with fun scientific applications.
