Danny Barash received his PhD degree in 1999 from the University of California at Davis. From 1999 to 2001, he was employed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories at the Technion, Israel, pursuing research on image processing and computer vision. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at New York University and a research fellow at the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa, Israel, where he made a transition to computational biology and later on to mathematical biology. Since 2004, he has been with the department of computer science at Ben-Gurion University. His research interests include computational & mathematical biology, viral dynamics, RNA structure prediction, computational imaging, scientific computing and applied numerical analysis for data science.
