David Haussler

David Haussler
David Haussler
Born	David Haussler; October 1953 (age 70)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Connecticut College (BA); California Polytechnic State University (MS); University of Colorado Boulder (PhD);
Known for	Hidden Markov models; Human Genome Project;
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006); Member of the National Academy of Engineering - Bioengineering (2018); Weldon Memorial Prize (2011); Curt Stern Award (2009); ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2008); ISCB Fellow (2009); Dickson Prize (2005); Dan David Prize (2015); AAAI Fellow (1993);
	Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience; Genomics; Computer science; Molecular biology; Evolution; Cancer;
Institutions	University of California, Santa Cruz; University of Colorado
Thesis	Insertion and iterated insertion as operations on formal language (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
Doctoral students	Yoav Freund; Adam Siepel; Jim Kent; Kimmen Sjölander; Melissa Cline;
Other notable students	Anders Krogh Katherine Pollard; Jian Ma; Karen Miga; Mathieu Blanchette; Anders Krogh;
Website	stemcellgenomics.ucsc.edu

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.

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.

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