Jérôme Waldispühl
Academic title(s):
Associate Professor
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Branch:
Université º«¹úÂãÎè
Department:
École d'informatique
Areas of expertise:
- Bioinformatics
- Citizen Science
- metagenomics
- video games
Biography:
Jérôme Waldispühl is an associate professor of Computer Science at º«¹úÂãÎè. He holds a PhD from École Polytechnique (France), and previously was an instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT (2006-2009). Jérôme conducts research in RNA structural bioinformatics and cheminformatics. He pioneered the use of video games to engage millions of online users in genomic research with Phylo (2010), Colony B (2016), Borderlands Science (2020) and Project Discovery Phase 3 (2020). He presented these projects at the White House OSTP (2013), Québec Parliament (2016) and French Academy of Science (2018). He is a recipient of the Tomlinson Scientist Award and the Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation.
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Projects:
D2R Projects
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