Rate My Professor Travis Wheeler

Travis Wheeler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Arizona, with additional appointments as Associate Professor in the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, Applied Mathematics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, and the BIO5 Institute. He received a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona in 1995 (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, minors in Anthropology and English), an M.S. in Computer Science in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2009 from the same institution, with advisors John Kececioglu and Mike Sanderson and a minor in Evolutionary Biology. After his doctorate, Wheeler served as Postdoctoral Associate (2009-2011) and Senior Research Scientist (2011-2014) in Sean Eddy's group at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus. He then joined the University of Montana's Department of Computer Science as Assistant Professor from 2014 to 2019 and Associate Professor from 2019 to 2022. Earlier roles include Lead Architect and Developer for the Tree of Life Web Project at the University of Arizona (2000-2003) and software development at Intuit, Inc. (1995-2000). In 2022, he returned to the University of Arizona in his current position.