معرفی
Siavash Mirarab is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty in Genome Engineering II at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of California, San Diego. He is affiliated with the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department, Bioinformatics program, and the Center for Microbiome Innovation. His research bridges computational biology and algorithm development for large-scale evolutionary analysis.
- Education: PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin (advisor: Tandy Warnow and Keshav Pingali)
Research Focus: The Mirarab lab develops statistically rigorous, scalable algorithms for phylogenomic analyses using dynamic programming, graph theory, and machine learning. Key applications include species tree reconstruction, genome skimming, metagenomics, HIV transmission networks, and multiple sequence alignment.
Scientific Contributions: The lab created widely used tools like ASTRAL, Skmer, and DEPP, and maintains a focus on empirical validation and biological domain knowledge integration.
- Awards: NSERC PGS, Howard Hughes Fellowship, Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER, NIH/NIGMS MIRA, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2023, 2024)
- Collaborations: Member of the Vertebrate Genome Project council
Training & Outreach: Conducts workshops and tutorials for tool adoption, with resources available on lab wiki and GitHub repositories.
