Draft:Donna Slonim

Donna Slonim is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments in the Tufts University School of Medicine and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Education
Slonim is a graduate of Yale University. She received her M.S from the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was in the Theory of Computation Group at the  MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Her doctoral thesis, "Learning from imperfect data in theory and practice" , was advised by Prof. Ronald L. Rivest, and included collaborative work with the mapping group at the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research on algorithmic challenges for the Human Genome Project.

Early Career
After graduate school, Slonim joined the research staff of the MIT/Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research, leading the mapping informatics group and designing methods for analyzing data from emerging expression microarray technology. She was a leading contributor to pioneering work on cancer classification and microarray data interpretation . Slonim went on to join Genetics Institute (later incorporated into Wyeth Research) as a principal scientist, working on drug discovery and clinical pharmacogenomics.

Academic Career, Research, and Professional Roles
Currently, Slonim is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University, with a secondary appointment in the faculty of Genetics, Molecular, and Cellular Biology at the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Her research focus includes computational biology, particularly developing methods for  precision medicine in applications to human developmental disorders.

Slonim has held many professional positions in the bioinformatics field. She has served on the Scientific Advisory Boards(SAB) of the Gene Ontology and the Mouse Genome Database, and on the  National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Scientific Counselors. She also served two terms on the International Society for Computational Biology(ICSB) Board of Directors . She has served as Proceedings Co-chair for both Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology(ISMB), and the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB), two key bioinformatics conferences. She has also served in associate editor or editorial board member roles for PLOS Computational Biology,  ACM/IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Journal of Biomedical Informatics,  and Biomed Central (BMC) Bioinformatics.