Trevor Cickovski

Trevor Cickovski is an Assistant Professor at Florida International University's Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, with a focus on bioinformatics and computational biology. Holding Graduate Faculty status, he specializes in microbiome analysis, GPU computing, network analysis, and Unix systems. His academic journey began with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame (2008).

• Current roles: Associate Director, Assistant Teaching Professor
• Research affiliations: Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG), ACM, IEEE

Dr. Cickovski's research spans microbiome analysis, software engineering, and GPU-accelerated computing. His work explores the microbiome's role in neuropsychiatric disorders (ADHD), genetic conditions (A1AD), respiratory diseases (COPD), and environmental phenomena (red tides) through multi-omics integration.

His publications in Journal of Medical Microbiology, Bioinformatics, and IEEE/ACM TCBB reflect strengths in plugin-based software frameworks (PluMA), network analysis, and computational pipeline optimization. Awards include multiple teaching excellence honors and industry funding from NVIDIA.

• 2020 Graduate Faculty Status
• 2019 FIU CAT Fellow
• 2019 FIU Faculty Teaching Award
• 2017 Teaching Excellence Award
• 2014 Promotion to Associate Professor

As lead developer of PluMA, he enables cross-language plugin development for bioinformatics workflows. Funded by NIJ and NSF, his projects apply machine learning to epigenetics and computational approaches to vaccine discovery.