Tandy Warnow

Tandy Jo Warnow is an American computer scientist, the Founder Professor of Engineering (and Professor of Bioengineering and Computer Science) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.

Biography

Warnow did both her undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of Eugene Lawler. After postdoctoral studies at the University of Southern California from 1991-1992 and at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque from 1992-1993, she took a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania, where she remained until moving in 1999 to the University of Texas. In 2014, Warnow joined the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Warnow is married to George Chacko, Chief Scientific Officer and Director, Program Evaluation, Policy Formulation, and Research Analytics, NETE.