Contact Info
Michael Cummings
Professor
Professor, UMIACS
Director, Data Science and Analytics M.S. Program
Director, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology M.S. Program
Teaching
- BSCI 471: Molecular Evolution
- BISI 620: Bioinformatics and Genomics
- BIOL 671: Molecular Evolution
- DATA 698: Research Methods and Study Design
- DATA 699: Capstone Research Project
Graduate Program Affiliations
- Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOI)
- Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
- Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
- Data Science (DATA)
Research Interests
Our research involves bioinformatics and computational biology with a particular focus on data analysis that spans a broad range of biomedical problems. We takes a broadly data science approach to research with objectives including description, hypothesis generation, hypothesis testing, prediction, and use machine learning, statistical and other methods.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.
