Mona Singh (scientist)
{{Short description|American computational biologist}}
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| education = Harvard University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
| fields = Genomics
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| thesis_title = Learning algorithms with applications to robot navigation and protein folding
| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40579
| thesis_year = 1996
| doctoral_advisor = Ron Rivest
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PECASE (2001)
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Mona Singh is an American computer scientist and researcher in the field of computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. She is the Wang Family Professor in Computer Science in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mona|title=Mona Singh|website=cs.princeton.edu|access-date=2018-03-12}} Since 2021, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Biology.{{Cite web |title=Journal of Computational Biology {{!}} Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers |url=https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/journal-of-computational-biology/31}}
Education
Singh was educated at Indian Springs School,{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiansprings.org/notable-alumni|title=Notable alumni of Indian Springs|author=Anon|year=2019|website=indiansprings.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512094312/https://www.indiansprings.org/notable-alumni|archive-date=2020-05-12}} Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was awarded a PhD in 1996 for research supervised by Ron Rivest and Bonnie Berger.{{MathGenealogy}}
Career and research
Singh's research interests{{DBLP}}{{ACM Portal}} are in computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics and their interfaces with machine learning and algorithms.{{cite journal|last1=Capra|first1=John A.|last2=Singh|first2=Mona|title=Predicting functionally important residues from sequence conservation|journal=Bioinformatics|volume=23|issue=15|year=2007|pages=1875–1882|issn=1460-2059|doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/btm270|pmid= 17519246|doi-access=}}{{cite journal|last1=Nabieva|first1=E.|last2=Jim|first2=K.|last3=Agarwal|first3=A.|last4=Chazelle|first4=B.|last5=Singh|first5=M.|title=Whole-proteome prediction of protein function via graph-theoretic analysis of interaction maps|journal=Bioinformatics|volume=21|issue=Suppl 1|year=2005|pages=i302–i310|issn=1367-4803|doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1054|pmid= 15961472|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Capra|first1=John A.|last2=Laskowski|first2=Roman A.|last3=Thornton|first3=Janet M.|last4=Singh|first4=Mona|last5=Funkhouser|first5=Thomas A.|title=Predicting Protein Ligand Binding Sites by Combining Evolutionary Sequence Conservation and 3D Structure|journal=PLOS Computational Biology|volume=5|issue=12|year=2009|pages=e1000585|issn=1553-7358|doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000585|pmid=19997483 |pmc=2777313|bibcode=2009PLSCB...5E0585C |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal|last1=Zhao|first1=X.|last2=Singh|first2=M.|last3=Malashkevich|first3=V. N.|last4=Kim|first4=P. S.|title=Structural characterization of the human respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein core|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=97|issue=26|year=2000|pages=14172–14177|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.260499197|pmid=11106388 |pmc=18890|bibcode=2000PNAS...9714172Z|doi-access=free}}
=Awards and honors=
Singh was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awards/PECASE/recip_details.jsp;jsessionid=1EAF7ABD43852FA6274CB0FFEFEDBAD9?pecase_id=117|title=The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details {{!}} |publisher=National Science Foundation|author=Anon|year=2001|website=nsf.gov|access-date=2019-03-22}} She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.{{cite web|url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows|author=Anon|year=2019|title=ISCB Fellows|website=iscb.org|access-date=2018-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320114530/https://www.iscb.org/iscb-fellows|publisher=International Society for Computational Biology|archive-date=2017-03-20|url-status=dead}}
She was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 “for contributions to computational biology, spearheading algorithmic and machine learning approaches for characterizing proteins and their interactions”.{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/december/fellows-2019|title=2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|website=acm.org|access-date=2019-12-11|author=Anon|location=New York, NY|year=2019}}
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Category:American bioinformaticians
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Indian Springs School alumni
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
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Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers