Background
University of California Santa Cruz, BS, 2021
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics
University of California Santa Cruz, MS, 2022
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics

Current Research
Stephen is interested in developing efficient computational methods for large-scale genomic analysis. He has previously worked on reducing bias in the human reference genome by developing sequence alignment methods to graph pangenomes and identifying population-specific variants using complete telomere-to-telomere human genome assemblies. He is currently working on developing methods for compressed indexing for pangenome substring queries and analyzing genome similarity. Stephen is a member of the Langmead Lab in the Department of Computer Science. 

PI Information
Dr. Ben Langmead
Department of Computer Science
https://www.langmead-lab.org/