Benedict Paten

Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Benedict Paten is an associate professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and an associate director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. He oversees the Computational Genomics Lab and Computational Genomics Platform groups at UCSC, which together are broadly focused on computational genomics, creating algorithms, software, and services addressing biomolecular challenges.