David Sankoff
Canadian scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Sankoff (born December 31, 1942) is a Canadian mathematician, bioinformatician, computer scientist and linguist. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Genomics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Ottawa, and is cross-appointed to the Biology Department and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He was founding editor of the scientific journal Language Variation and Change (Cambridge)[6] and serves on the editorial boards of a number of bioinformatics, computational biology and linguistics journals.[7][8][9][10] Sankoff is best known for his pioneering contributions in computational linguistics and computational genomics.[3] He is considered to be one of the founders of bioinformatics. In particular, he had a key role in introducing dynamic programming[11] for sequence alignment and other problems in computational biology. In Pavel Pevzner's words,[2] "[ Michael Waterman ] and David Sankoff are responsible for transforming bioinformatics from a ‘stamp collection' of ill-defined problems into a rigorous discipline with important biological applications."
David Sankoff | |
---|---|
Born | (1942-12-31) December 31, 1942 (age 81) |
Nationality | Canadian |
Alma mater | McGill University (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
Known for | |
Awards |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Historical Linguistics as a Stochastic Process (1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Donald Andrew Dawson[5] |
Website | albuquerque |