Mona Singh, an assistant professor in the computer science department, has received a 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the University announced Tuesday. The honor, bestowed by President George W. Bush's Office of Science and Technology Policy, was created by former President Clinton in 1996 to recognize young leaders in the scientific and engineering research community.
Singh — who earned her Ph.D. in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after completing undergraduate work at Harvard University — works in both computer science and biology.
Singh is a member of the University's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
She explores methods of computing that quickly examine biological data.
The speed of such functions — like the in-depth study of proteins — is a key contribution to the study and treatment of disease.
To describe her own place in the process of disease treatment, Singh used a pipeline as a metaphor. Her work with computing would begin the process that ends in the treatment of disease.
"I work on the first part of the pipeline," she said. "Computational approaches may help direct the more time-consuming and expensive experimental approaches that are necessary to uncover and verify the actual interactions between proteins."
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