Pavel Pevzner

Pavel Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Chair and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He also serves as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and directs the NIH National Technology Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.

• Education: B.S. from Moscow Technological Transport Institute (1979), Ph.D. from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1988).

His research spans genomic rearrangement algorithms, de novo sequencing, proteomics, and computational mass spectrometry. Notable contributions include the SPAdes genome assembler, algorithms for sorting signed permutations by reversals, and methods for top-down proteomics.

Recent publications highlight advancements in single-cell genome assembly (2016) and synthetic long-read processing (2013), alongside foundational work in DNA fragment assembly (2001) and tandem mass spectrometry (1999).

• Scientific Awards: ACM Fellow (2010), ISCB Fellow (2012), RECOMB Test of Time (2013), ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2019).

He has advised 28 doctoral/postdoctoral students, including professors at Harvard, Princeton, and UCSD, and co-founded Coursera's Bioinformatics Specialization (2015). His editorial roles include executiv editor of the Journal of Computational Biology.