Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECpE PhD Alumnus Earns Iowa State’s Zaffarano Award

 

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Dana Schmidt, communications specialist, (515) 294-3071, schmidtd@iastate.edu

Ames Iowa – Scott Emrich, a 2007 PhD graduate in bioinformatics and computational biology, recently was honored with Iowa State University’s Zaffarano Award. The award recognizes superior performance in publishable research by an Iowa State graduate student. Emrich is the first student from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to receive this award.

Emrich’s research at Iowa State concentrated on interdisciplinary maize genomics. As a result, he was honored with the 2007 Science Editor’s Choice Award, 2006 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Best Paper Award, as well as university and departmental Research Excellence Awards.

After Emrich graduated in 2007, he began working as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He researches vector genomics, predominantly in mosquitoes that spread tropical diseases, and builds computational tools to carry out large-scale genome analyses. In the future, he hopes to research new sequencing machines, and more systems-level approaches to studying human disease.

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