Michael J. Stringer



Principal, DataScope Analytics LLC


Bio

I was born in Colorado in 1982, and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder. After a stint studying Mechanical Engineering there, I became particularly interested in single molecule biophysics and switched to the Engineering Physics program, which I graduated from in

  1. Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics at Northwestern University, under the research supervision of Dr. Luis Amaral.

Education

  • Ph. D. Physics, Northwestern University (2009)
  • B. Sc. Engineering Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder (2004)

Awards and Honors

  • Travel Grant to present at US / Hungarian Workshop on Large-scale Random Graph Methods, National Science Foundation (2006)
  • Poster Award, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (2006)
  • Huang Graduate Fellowship, Northwestern University (2004)
  • Senior Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, University of Colorado, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (2003)
  • Undergraduate Biomedical Research Grant, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder (2002)
  • Scholarships, Micro Motion Scholarship, Oscar L. Robertson Scholarship, Ranald J. Fox Scholarship, Jessie Kaplan Mintz Scholarship, ITT Industries Advanced Engineering & Science Scholarship (2000)

Selected Communications

  • Bioinformatics Reading Group Northwestern University, ?????? (December 2008)
  • Complex Networks: from biology to information technology Statphys 23 satellite conference, Pula, Italy (July 2007)
  • Large-Scale Random Graph Methods for Modeling Mesoscopic Behavior in Biological and Physical Systems Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary (September 2006)