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Lenore Cowen is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Tufts University, with additional affiliation in the Graduate Biomedical Sciences program. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT (1993) and a B.A. from Yale (1987). After postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins, she joined Tufts in 2001, where her research bridges discrete mathematics, graph algorithms, and computational molecular biology.
- Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics, MIT (1993); B.A. in Mathematics, Yale (1987)
Her research spans computational molecular biology, focusing on protein structure/function prediction, network science for biological systems, and coral bioinformatics. Key projects include developing GLIDE and D-SCRIPT algorithms for protein interaction prediction, leading the Synthetic Coral NSF project, and advancing MEDFORD for metadata markup in ecological studies.
Recent publications highlight coral resilience, drug-target interaction prediction, and 3D network visualization. She co-chaired major conferences like RECOMB and SIAM ACDA, and serves as Associate Editor for Bioinformatics and on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM TCBB. Awards include CRA-E and NCWIT mentoring honors, and fellowships from SIAM and ISCB.
She mentors graduate students across computational biology and network science, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams like the Tufts BCB group and Wellesley College. Her work is funded by NSF and NIH grants, including contributions to the DREAM Disease Module Identification Challenge and high-dimensional data analysis in genomics.
