Berkeley alumna Tandy Warnow wins ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award

Berkeley Math alumna Tandy Warnow (Ph.D. ’91) has won the International Society for Computational Biology’s Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award.

The annual award recognizes a member of the computational biology community, more than two decades post-degree, who has made major contributions to the field. Warnow is currently a professor, and the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Warnow’s research focuses on reconstructing complex and large-scale evolutionary histories.

Warnow received her Ph.D. in Mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1991 under the direction of CS Professor Eugene Lawler. Her dissertation committee comprised notable CS and math luminaries such as Turing winners Manuel Blum and Richard Karp, computer scientist Dan Gusfield, and Mathematician David Gale.