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I am a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, and a member of NC State Bioinformatics Research Center. I received my PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Tennessee – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology, under Computer Science Professor Dr. Michael Langston. I started as a Bioinformatics Manager at Seattle BioMed (now Center for Global Infectious Disease Research) after graduation. In 2008 I joined the University of Washington Department of Microbiology as a Computational Research Scientist, and was promoted to a Research Assistant Professor in 2012. I moved here at NC State in July 2016 as one of the Dean’s Faculty Excellence cluster hires, in the field of “Translational Genomics of Infectious Diseases,” and to be part of the Bioinformatics Research Center.