| Laxmi Parida | |
| Birth Name: | or|ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ ପରିଡ଼ା |
| Birth Place: | Odisha, India |
| Fields: | Computational genomics Population genomics Bioinformatics Cancer Genomics Topological data analysis |
| Workplaces: | IBM Research New York University Thomas J. Watson Research Center Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Alma Mater: | New York University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Algorithmic techniques in Computational Genomics |
| Thesis Url: | https://cs.nyu.edu/media/publications/parida_laxmi.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Bud Mishra |
Laxmi Parida is an IBM Master Inventor and group leader in computational genomics at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York.[1]
Parida was educated at New York University (NYU) where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 for research on algorithms for computational genomics supervised by Bud Mishra.[2]
Parida's research interests are in computational genomics, population genomics, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, topological data analysis and their applications to coronavirus disease 2019.[3] [4]
Parida was awarded Fellowship of the ISCB in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.[5] She was also awarded an IBM Fellowship and IBM Master Inventor status in 2019.[6] [7] She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).