Oregon State University Michigan State University (PhD)
Known for
Smith-Waterman algorithm
Lander-Waterman formula
De Bruijn sequence assembly
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship (1995)[1]
Gairdner Foundation International Award (2002)[1]
ISCB Fellow (2009)[2]
Dan David Prize (2015)[3]
Scientific career
Fields
Computational biology
Probability
Statistics
Computer science
Discrete mathematics
Combinatorics
Institutions
University of Virginia
University of Southern California
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Idaho State University
Thesis
Some Ergodic Properties of Multi-Dimensional F-Expansions(1969)
Doctoral advisor
John Rankin Kinney[4]
Notable students
Pavel Pevzner (postdoc) Tandy Warnow (postdoc)
Website
dornsife.usc.edu/labs/msw/
Michael Spencer Waterman (born June 28, 1942) is a Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC),[1][6] where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously[when?] held positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University.
^ abcAnon (2017). "Michael S. Waterman: Professor of Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, University of Southern California". dornsife.usc.edu/labs/msw. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02.
^Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20.
^Anon (2015). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales among 2015 Dan David Prize winners". eurekalert.org. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
^Michael Waterman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2005 [ISBN missing]
^Maisel, M. (2006). "ISCB Honors Michael S. Waterman and Mathieu Blanchette". PLOS Computational Biology. 2 (8): e105. Bibcode:2006PLSCB...2..105M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020105. PMC 1526462.
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