Larry Hunter

Dr. Lawrence Hunter is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He is widely recognized as one of the founders of bioinformatics; he published some of the first papers in biomedical NLP and in machine learning predictions of molecular function; he served as the first President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB); and he created several of the most important conferences in the field, including ISMB, PSB and the Rocky Mountain Conference on Bioinformatics. Dr. Hunter’s research interests span a wide range of areas, from cognitive science to rational drug design. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, holds two patents and has been elected a fellow of both the ISCB and the American College of Medical Informatics.