| Mona Singh | |
| Workplaces: | Princeton University |
| Education: | Harvard University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Fields: | Genomics Bioinformatics Computational biology |
| Thesis Title: | Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding |
| Thesis Url: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40579 |
| Thesis Year: | 1996 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Ron Rivest Bonnie Berger[1] |
| Awards: | ACM Fellow (2019) ISCB Fellow (2018) PECASE (2001) |
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Mona Singh is an American computer scientist and an expert in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. She is the Wang Family Professor in Computer Science in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.[2] Since 2021, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Biology.[3]
Singh was educated at Indian Springs School,[4] Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was awarded a PhD in 1996 for research supervised by Ron Rivest and Bonnie Berger.
Singh's research interests are in computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics and their interfaces with machine learning and algorithms.[5] [6] [7] [8]
Singh was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001.[9] She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.[10] She was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 “for contributions to computational biology, spearheading algorithmic and machine learning approaches for characterizing proteins and their interactions”.