Rate My Professor David Haussler

David Haussler is a Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, serving as Scientific Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1982, an MS in Applied Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1979, and a BA in Mathematics magna cum laude from Connecticut College in 1975. Haussler's academic career at UC Santa Cruz began in 1986 as Assistant Professor of Computer Science, progressing to Associate Professor in 1989, Professor in 1993, and Distinguished Professor in 2005. Earlier, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Denver from 1982 to 1986. His research at the interface of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology develops statistical and algorithmic methods to explore molecular function, evolution of the human genome, neural circuit development, gene regulation, and cancer biomarkers. Pioneering applications include hidden Markov models, stochastic context-free grammars, and discriminative kernel methods for DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis. As a collaborator on the Human Genome Project, his team posted the first publicly available computational assembly of the human genome on the Internet in 2000 and created the UCSC Genome Browser, widely used in biomedical research.