David Haussler
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David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome.[12][13][14]
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Born | David Haussler October 1953 (1953-10) (age 70)[1] |
Nationality | American |
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Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz University of Colorado |
Thesis | Insertion and iterated insertion as operations on formal language (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Andrzej Ehrenfeucht[8] |
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Other notable students | Anders Krogh[10] |
Website | stemcellgenomics.ucsc.edu |
Haussler was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for developments in computational learning theory and bioinformatics, including first assembly of the human genome, its analysis, and data sharing.
He is a distinguished professor of biomolecular engineering and founding scientific director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) on the UC Santa Cruz campus, and a consulting professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.[10][15]