Jerome Waldispuhl

Jerome Waldispühl is a professor and Canada Research Chair at McGill University's School of Computer Science. His research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology, with an emphasis on computational biology, human-computer interaction, and citizen science. He explores the use of video games to accelerate scientific discovery, particularly in metagenomics, and develops algorithms for predicting RNA structures and small-molecule interactions. Waldispühl received a PhD in Computer Science from École Polytechnique (France) in 2004 and has held post-doctoral and instructor positions at Boston College and MIT. He joined McGill University in 2009 and has contributed to citizen science projects such as Borderlands Science and Project Discovery, which were integrated into video games. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the President’s Prize for Public Engagement Through Media and the Fessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award.

Jérôme Waldispühl is a professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, specializing in RNA bioinformatics, citizen science, and algorithms. His research explores computational methods for RNA structure prediction, RNA-small molecule interactions, and the design of RNA sequences with targeted secondary structures. He also investigates crowdsourcing and citizen science platforms to enhance scientific research, such as open-source tools for multiple sequence alignment and microbiome studies. His work integrates algorithmic approaches with biological problems, emphasizing the development of efficient sampling and optimization techniques for RNA and protein structure prediction.