Bruce Randall Donald
James B. Duke Professor
      of Computer Science and Biochemistry

Duke University

Ph.D. MIT, 1987


Short Biography:

Bruce Donald is the James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Chemistry at Duke University, and Professor of Biochemistry in the Duke University Medical Center. He was a professor in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University from 1987-1998.

Donald received a B.A. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has been a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on algorithms for structural proteomics. Donald is a Fellow of: the ACM, the AAAS, and the IEEE. He is the author of five books, including Algorithms in Structural Molecular Biology (MIT Press).