Mihai Pop

About

Mihai Pop is a professor of computer science and co-director of the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Microbiome Sciences. He develops computational approaches for analyzing microbial communities, particularly for characterizing their strain-level diversity. Other interests include biological databases, antibiotic resistance, and software testing. His lab has developed several widely used open-source software tools for the analysis of genomic and metagenomic data, including software for sequence alignment, genome and metagenome assembly, sequence clustering, and for assessing metagenome associations with phenotypes. Pop teaches at all academic levels and is a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity within the scientific community. He has a particular interest in developing

Education

• Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2000