With great pleasure, the Department announces the appointment of Professor Scott Schmidler as a secondary professor in Computer Science. Schmidler is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke, where he studies stochastic models and algorithms for complex biological and physical systems.

Schmidler joined the Duke community in 2000, following the completion of a PhD at Stanford University in Biomedical Informatics. Prior to his graduate work, Schmidler studied Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. "It's nice to come back home, in a way, to a computer science department," he says with a smile.

Today, Schmidler's work includes numerous projects that intersect with computer science, including research in computational biology and theoretical work related to probability in algorithm design. Schmidler is no stranger to the Department, having collaborated in the past with Department Chair Carlo Tomasi, Professor Pankaj Agarwal, and Professor Bruce Donald, among others.

"I’m looking forward to building more bridges between the CS department and the Statistical Science department," says Schmidler. "There's a good synergy between the two departments at Duke in areas like machine learning, computational biology, and high-dimensional data sets, and I hope we can develop that further."

See also: Scott Schmidler's Research Profile