Michael Schatz

Michael Schatz is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology at Johns Hopkins University. His research is at the intersection of computer science, biology, and biotechnology, and focuses on development of novel algorithms and computing systems for human genetics, comparative genomics, and personalized medicine. Schatz is also widely recognized as a passionate educator and relationship builder who leads several efforts to grow and diversify the genomics data science community.

For this work, he is the recipient of the 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an 2014 NSF CAREER award, and was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world in 2022 (TIME100).

He has also been a regular attendee at AGBT since 2010, and has presented several times throughout the years on long read sequencing and advanced computational approaches for plant, animal, and human genomics at AGBT, ABGT-Ag, and AGBT-Precision Health.

Schatz received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2010 and 2008, his B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. More information is available on his lab website: http://schatz-lab.org