Computer Science Department News

 

Ben Shirley Awarded a MITACS Fellowship

 

Ben Shirley

Congratulations to Ben Shirley on receiving an MITACS Fellowship. The title of Ben's internship project is: "Development of an Information Theory-based Mutation Detector for a Commercial Bioinformatics Genome Server". The partner company for this internship is Cytognomix Inc. which was founded by Dr. Peter Rogan and the supervisor for the project is Dr. Bob Mercer.

 

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