Steven Salzberg
Professor at The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Salzberg is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins who bridges biomedical engineering, computer science, and biostatistics to lead computational genomics research and the Center for Computational Biology. Over a multi-decade academic career that includes faculty roles at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland and leadership at TIGR, he has translated algorithmic expertise into high-impact bioinformatics tools and research programs. A trained computer scientist with a PhD from Harvard and an uncommon background in English from Yale, he communicates complex science broadly as a long-time columnist and active newsletter author. Based in Baltimore, he combines rigorous computational methods with public engagement—on platforms from Twitter to Substack—and is also an avid tennis player, underscoring a balance of intellectual and athletic pursuits.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (34)
genome10
mer10
nmf10
classifier10
biodiversity10
pathogen10
taxonomy9
kraken9
classification9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
infectious-diseases9
metagenomics9
sequence9
genomics9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
salzberg/KrakenUniq-Chunking
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
mummer4/mummer4.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes in 13 days
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