User:Jeanette Schmidt

Jeanette P. Schmidt received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She received an M.S degree in Applied Mathematics in 1982 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science form the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1986. She held visiting professor positions at Rutgers University in New Jersey and at the Courant Institute of New York University. In 1989 she joined the Computer Science Department at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, where she was an Associate Professor. Her research has focused on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Combinatorial Algorithms. While on sabbatical from Polytechnic University, she spent a year at Stanford University in the Department of Biochemistry and the Section for Medical Informatics, supported by a National Science Foundation grant for Visiting Professors. In 1997, Dr. Schmidt joined Incyte Genomics, eventually serving as Vice President of Bioinformatics Research and Development, leading bioinformatics research, operations as well as product development. In 2004, she joined the newly funded National NIH Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures (Simbios) at Stanford University as Executive Director. Since September 2010 she is serving as Vice President of Informatics at Affymetrix.