Carl Kingsford is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on developing new computational methods for analysis of large biological data sets, especially genomic and transcriptomic data. He is the Director of CMU’s Center for Machine Learning and Health, Co-Director of CMU’s PhD program in computational biology, and CEO and Co-Founder of Ocean Genomics, Inc. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2005 and was named a Fellow of the ISCB in 2024.