{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2024-08-06T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:53:13","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael S Waterman"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          Michael S Waterman\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <h5>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n<p><strong>UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usc.edu\">University of Southern California<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/qcb-dornsife.usc.edu\">Quantitative &amp; Computational Biology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/math.usc.edu\/\">Mathematics<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.usc.edu\/\">Computer Science<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>DISTINGUISHED RESEACRH PROFESSOR<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/biocomplexity.virginia.edu\/person\/michael-s-waterman\">University of Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/MSW-QCB40-cropped-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/MSW-QCB40-cropped-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Waterman is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California. He came to USC in 1982 after positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree in Mathematics from Oregon State University, and a PhD in Statistics and Probability from Michigan State University. He has held visiting positions at the University of Hawaii (1979-80), the University of California at San Francisco (1982), Mt. Sinai Medical School (1988), Chalmers University (2000), and in 2000-2001 he held the Aisenstadt Chair at University of Montreal. At the beginning of 2020, he became University Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California and was appointed Distinguished Research Professor at University of Virginia from 2020 to 2024.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; padding: 10px 0px 40px 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/GettingOutsideBookCover-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/GettingOutsideBookCover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/GettingOutsideBookCover.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Michael Waterman was named a Guggenheim Fellow (1995). He is an elected member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amacad.org\/\">American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(1995), the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nas.edu\/\">National Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(2001) and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nae.edu\/\">National Academy of Engineering<\/a>\u00a0(2012). Also he is a elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imstat.org\/\">Institute of Mathematical Statistics<\/a>\u00a0(1991), Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), International Society of Computational Biology (2009) and National Academy of Inventors (2018). In fall 2000 he became the first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmb.usc.edu\/people\/celera.html\">Fellow of Celera Genomics<\/a>. Waterman received a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gairdner.org\/\">Gairdner Foundation International Award\u00a0<\/a>(2002), the Friendship Award from the Chinese government (2013), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandavidprize.org\/laureates\/2015\/191-future-bioinformatics\/756-prof-michael-waterman\">Dan David Prize<\/a> (2015) and the Walter Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics (2020). He is an elected Foreign Member of the French Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences (2005) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013). He received honorary Doctorates from Tel Aviv University (2011), Southern Denmark University (2013) and Oregon State University (2024).<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2023\/08\/msw100-framed1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During 2003-2008, Professor Waterman held a 5-year term as Faculty Master of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www-scf.usc.edu\/~pirc\/\">Parkside International Residence College<\/a>\u00a0at USC. PIRC is a residential college that is home to over 600 undergraduates and serves as a center for internationally oriented cultural, academic and social events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From May 2008 to May 2014, in addition to his USC appointment Michael Waterman became Chair Professor at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsinghua.edu.cn\/docse\/eindex.html\">Tsinghua University<\/a>\u00a0in Beijing.\u00a0 He led\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/166.111.72.3\/news\/isapi\/readnews.asp?NID=113\">a team\u00a0<\/a>of distinguished scientists which collectively worked to enhance Tsinghua&#8217;s programs in bioinformatics and computational biology. He was Cao Xingcheng Chair Professor at Tsinghua University (2008-2017) and Distinguished Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2014-2019).\u00a0<a title=\"Mike at Tsinghua\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsifelive.usc.edu\/labs\/msw\/tsinghua-photo\/\" target=\"_self\">Tsinghua Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Waterman is a founding editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/cmb\">Journal of Computational Biology<\/a>\u00a0and is on the editorial board of several journals. He is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crcpress.com\/shopping_cart\/products\/product_detail.asp?sku=C9391\">Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences and Genomes\u00a0<\/a>and is a co-author of the text\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springeronline.com\/sgw\/cda\/frontpage\/0,11855,4-10128-22-35889511-0,00.html\">Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduction<\/a>. Also with Istrail and Pevzner in 1997 he began the international conference Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB).<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 10px 40px 40px 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1072 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-500x700.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final-900x1260.jpg 900w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/msw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2024\/04\/OutsidePassages3Final.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Professor Waterman works in the area of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmb.usc.edu\/index.html\">Computational Biology<\/a>\u00a0and Bioinformatics, concentrating on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA and protein sequence data. He is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formula for physical mapping. His paper with Idury in 1995 introduced the use of Eulerian and De Bruijn graphs for sequence assembly. Beginning in 2002 he took alignment-free sequence analysis in a new direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--contact-details \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--contact-details\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n          <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Michael S Waterman\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n        \n      <\/div>\n    \n    \n      <div class=\"contacts-container\">\n\n        \n                      <div class=\"contact-card\">\n\n                              <h3>Michael S Waterman<\/h3>\n              \n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>University of Southern California<br \/>\nUniversity Park Campus<br \/>\n1050 Childs Way<br \/>\nBuilding: RRI<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California 90089-2910<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n              \n                              <div class=\"f--phone\">\n                  <a href=\"tel:(213) 740-8631\">(213) 740-8631<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n              \n                              <div class=\"f--email\">\n                  <a href=\"mailto:msw@usc.edu\">msw@usc.edu<\/a>\n                <\/div>\n              \n            <\/div>\n                    \n      <\/div>\n\n        \n     \n    \n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":1030,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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