Vineet Bafna
Vineet Bafna | |
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| Education | |
| Awards | ISCB Fellow (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics, Computational biology |
| Institutions | University of California San Diego |
| Thesis | Approximation algorithms for multiple alignment and genome rearrangements (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pavel Pevzner |
| Website | http://proteomics.ucsd.edu/vbafna/ |
Vineet Bafna is an Indian bioinformatician and professor of computer science and director of bioinformatics program at University of California, San Diego. He was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2019 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. He has also been a member of the Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) conference steering committee.