Dr. Taylor will join the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans (UNO) as an Assistant Professor in August of 2008. Dr. Taylor earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Mary Washington College (now known as University of Mary Washington). He earned a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia (UVa) with a thesis on discrete data mining algorithms. Dr. Taylor earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UVa with a dissertation in the area of computational biology. Prior to joining UNO's Computer Science Department he has been involved in an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at UVa designing algorithms and techniques for analysis of DNA replication in the human genome.

Dr. Taylor's primary research involves designing algorithms to analyze genomic data where he focuses on DNA replication, new sequencing technologies, and developmental cancer. He collaborates directly with molecular biologists to investigate biological phenomena using genomic tools such as DNA microarrays and high-throughput sequencing systems.

The vast quantity of data produced in genomic studies requires the design of efficient algorithms for processing, storage, retrieval and visualization. Exciting new technologies for high-throughput sequencing which are currently being developed will place an even heavier burden on computational resources in the future. New algorithms will be required in order to alleviate this burden and process these streams of sequencing data in real time. This work has strong implications not only for basic scientific research, but also for the public health sector which will begin to use high-throughput sequencing for personal health care in the future as the cost of sequencing the human genome continues to decline.