Michael S. Waterman

  • USC University Professor
  • Holder of the USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences
  • Affiliate, Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics
  • Head, Computational and Mathematical Statistics Section
  • Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Biological Sciences and Computer Science
  • USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-2408

Expertise Summary

Expert in using organic compounds to create light and power

Expertise

  • mathematical approaches to molecular biology and studies of human genetics
  • computational and molecular biology
  • bioinformatics
  • genetic mapping and DNA sequencing
  • probability and statistics
  • combinatorics
  • algorithms

Additional Information

    • Member, National Academy of Sciences

 

    • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Association for

 

    • the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

    • Editor or co-editor of Mathematical Methods for DNA Sequences (1989);

 

    • Introduction to Computational Biology: Sequences, Maps and Genomes

 

    • (1995); Genetic Mapping and DNA Sequencing (1996); Proceedings

 

    • First Annual Conference on Computational and Molecular Biology

 

    • (1997); Proceedings Second Annual Conference on Computational

 

    • and Molecular Biology (1998); Proceedings Third Annual Conference

 

    • on Computational and Molecular Biology (1999); and Mathematical

 

    Support for Molecular Biology (1999)