Vineet Bafna

Vineet Bafna
Education
AwardsISCB Fellow (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics, Computational biology
InstitutionsUniversity of California San Diego
ThesisApproximation algorithms for multiple alignment and genome rearrangements (1994)
Doctoral advisorPavel Pevzner
Websitehttp://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.