Teaching Professor and Assistant Dean for Innovation in Computing Education, Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department
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Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, SCS
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Gates-Hillman Center 7403
Work Phone: 412-268-7876
Administrative Assistant: Tara Seman
is the Assistant Dean for Innovation in Computing Education and Teaching Professor in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department. He directs the undergraduate program and co-founded (with Josh Kangas) the PreCollege Program in Computational Biology.
Dr. Compeau also teaches a variety of courses, and he is passionate about how online and offline educational materials can inform and enrich each other as we build an effective 21st Century classroom. He completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at UC San Diego, where he co-founded , a platform for learning computational biology and algorithms through problem solving that has reached over a million learners. Phillip also helped lead the development of the first massive open online course (MOOC) in computational biology in 2013, which has since grown into the Bioinformatics Specialization on . He is the co-author (with Pavel Pevzner) of , a bestselling textbook in computational biology that has been adopted by 220 instructors in over 45 countries.
During his time at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV, Dr. Compeau has continued to develop online education projects. is a free and open online course teaching learners how to model biological systems at multiple scales, from the molecular to the cellular. Its companion text, Biological Modeling: A Short Tour, was published via crowdfunding donations from several hundred learners and is available in both and formats. And he is the founder of , an open course that offers a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of to lovers of science.
Highlighted Publications
P. Compeau, M. Inan, N. Lee, S. Li, C. Lee. Biological Modeling: A Short Tour. Philomath Press, (2023)
P. Compeau. Establishing a computational biology flipped classroom. PLoS Computational Biology 15 (5), (2019)
P. Compeau, P. Pevzner. Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (3rd Edition), Textbook (2018)