Carl Kingsford is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department. He is the director of the Center for Innovation in Health and the Center for Machine Learning and Health. Kingsford’s research focuses on developing new, efficient algorithms for extracting knowledge from large biological data sets, particularly high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data. He has worked recently on algorithms for accurately quantifying gene expression, identifying compact regions of chromatin and large-scale sequence search, among other topics. His group typically explores solutions using optimization, graph algorithms and machine learning.