Robert F. Murphy (computational biologist)

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Bob Murphy
Alma mater	Columbia University (B.A., Biochemistry) California Institute of Technology (PhD, Biochemistry)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational biology Machine learning
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
Doctoral advisor	James F. Bonner
Website	www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/murphy/

Robert F. Murphy is Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology Emeritus and Director of the M.S. Program in Automated Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to his retirement in May 2021, he was the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology as well as Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning. He was founding Director (with Jelena Kovacevic^[1]) of the Center for Bioimage Informatics at Carnegie Mellon and founded (with Ivet Bahar) the Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology. He also founded the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University (originally the Lane Center for Computational Biology) and served as its head from 2009 to 2020.