Dan DeBlasio

Dan DeBlasio is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology, a position he has been in since Fall of 2023. He is also the Director of the Integrated Masters in Computational Biology and Co-Assisitant Director of the MS in Computational Biology (MSCB) [with DJ Braiser]. In addition, he is the coordinator of Undergraduate Research for the Computational Biology Department. 

Dr. DeBlasio's course coordination focuses on algorithmic and computational foundations with applications in Computational Biology. Since arriving at CMU on the Teaching Track his courses offered are Algorithms and Advanced Data Structures, Essentials of Mathematics and Statistics, and Introduction to Computational Biology. He also leads the Professional Issues course for MSCB, MSAS, and the Integrated Masters in CB. His research focuses on similar areas to those in which his courses are offered, but additionally DeBlasio has worked on projects related to the use of Machine Learning to identify Unresolved Resident Space Objects from Hyperspectral Imagry. 

Before rejoining CMU in Fall of 2023, DeBlasio as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso from 2019, and before that was a Lane Fellow (postdoc) in his current department starting in 2016. He got his PhD at the University of Arizona, and his MS and BS from the University of Central Florida all in Computer Science. He has served on the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) Board of Directors (2017-2019) and maintains connections with the society in various roles.