Tandy Warnow

Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow
	Tandy Warnow speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born	Tandy Jo Warnow
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD)
Spouse	George Chacko
Children	2
Awards	David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow (1996); Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow (2003); John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2010); ACM Fellow (2015); ISCB Fellow (2017); AAAS Fellow (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science; Computational Biology; Phylogenetics; Metagenomics; Multiple Sequence Alignment
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ; University of Pennsylvania ; University of Texas
Thesis	Combinatorial algorithms for constructing phylogenetic trees (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Eugene Lawler
Other academic advisors	Michael Waterman; Simon Tavare
Doctoral students	Luay Nakhleh
Website	tandy.cs.illinois.edu

Tandy Warnow is an American computer scientist and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.

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