Jill P. Mesirov

Jill Mesirov
Born
Jill P. Mesirov
Other namesJill P. Mesirov-Kazdan
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
Brandeis University (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2012)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
Broad Institute
Boston University
ThesisPerturbation theory for the existence of critical points in the calculus of variations (1974)
Doctoral advisorRichard Palais
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Jill P. Mesirov (also published as Jill P. Mesirov-Kazdan) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and computational biologist who is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. She previously held an adjunct faculty position at Boston University and was the associate director and chief informatics officer at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.