Mathieu Blanchette (computational biologist)

Mathieu Blanchette
Mathieu Blanchette
Born	Mathieu Daniel Blanchette
Alma mater	Université de Montréal (BSc, MSc); University of Washington (PhD);
Awards	Overton Prize (2006); Sloan Fellowship (2007);
	Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics; Genomics; Evolution;
Institutions	McGill University; University of California, Santa Cruz;
Thesis	Algorithms for phylogenetic footprinting (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Martin Tompa
Other academic advisors	David Sankoff; David Haussler;
Website	www.cs.mcgill.ca/~blanchem/

Mathieu Daniel Blanchette is a computational biologist and Director of the School of Computer Science at McGill University. His research focuses on developing new algorithms for the detection of functional regions in DNA sequences.