Pavel Pevzner#
| Membership Number: | 4189 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ppevzner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Director, Center for Algorithmic Biotechnology, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
- 2011 - 2014 Director, Laboratory for Algorithmic Biology, Saint Petersburg Academic University, Russia
- 2008 - present Director, NIH National Technology Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry
- 2008 - 2012 Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at UCSD
- 2006 - present Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
- 2000 - present Ronald R. Taylor Chair Professor of Computer Science, UCSD
- 1995 - 2000 Professor, Departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
- 1992 - 1995 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University
- 1990 - 1992 Postdoctoral Researcher (with M.Waterman), Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
- 1985 - 1990 Junior-Senior Scientist, Lab. of Mathematical Methods, Natl. Center for Biotechnology NIIGENETIKA, Moscow, Russia
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms and software tools for analyzing genome rearrangements
- Algorithms and software tools for de novo antibody sequencing
- Algorithms and software tools for de novo antibiotics sequencing
- Algorithms and software tools for genome assembly
- Algorithms and software tools for computational proteomics
Honours and Awards
- 1994 NSF Young Investigator Award
- 2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Award
- 2007 UCSD Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research
- 2010 Election as Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
- 2011 Recipient of the Honorary Degree and the commencement speaker, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- 2011 Leading Scientist, Megagrant Program of Russian Government
- 2011 Jon Postel Distinguished Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2012 Election as International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Fellow
- 2013 RECOMB Test of Time Award
- 2015 Alberto Apostolico Memorial Lecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2015 James Kelly Distinguished Lecture, Pennsylvania State University
- 2015 Margaret Dayhoff Distinguished Lecture, Atlanta
