Pavel Pevzner
Pavel Pevzner · Technology & Engineering
Pioneer of the genome-assembly algorithms behind modern DNA sequencing; Kanellakis Award (2018)
1956, Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union · United States
Pavel Pevzner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneer of the genome-assembly algorithms behind modern DNA sequencing; Kanellakis Award (2018)
Pavel Pevzner is a computational biologist at the University of California, San Diego who pioneered the graph-based algorithms behind modern DNA sequence assembly, including the use of de Bruijn graphs for genome reconstruction. In 2018 he received the Paris Kanellakis Award for these foundational contributions. He was born into a Jewish family in Moscow and emigrated from the USSR to the United States.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award
Pioneer of the genome-assembly algorithms behind modern DNA sequencing; Kanellakis Award (2018)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Kanellakis Award
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