Niema Moshiri

Niema Moshiri has transitioned from a Ph.D. student to an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His academic journey began with a B.S. in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from UCSD, where he was co-advised by Siavash Mirarab and Pavel Pevzner. His research focuses on computational biology, particularly in phylogenetics and phylogenomics, as well as computational viral epidemiology. As an educator, Moshiri has made significant contributions to computer science education, including co-authoring the interactive online textbook "Data Structures: An Active Learning Approach" and developing Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts (MAITs) for use in flipped classrooms and MOOCs. He is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Halicioglu Data Science Institute. Moshiri's work extends to reviewing for numerous scientific journals and conferences in bioinformatics and computer science education.