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   is the Assistant Dean for Innovation in Computing Education and Teaching Professor in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department. He directs the undergraduate program and co-founded (with Josh Kangas) the PreCollege Program in Computational Biology.

Dr. Compeau also teaches a variety of courses, and he is passionate about how online and offline educational materials can inform and enrich each other as we build an effective 21st Century classroom.  He completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at UC San Diego, where he co-founded , a platform for learning computational biology and algorithms through problem solving that has reached over a million learners. Phillip also helped lead the development of the first massive open online course (MOOC) in computational biology in 2013, which has since grown into the Bioinformatics Specialization on . He is the co-author (with Pavel Pevzner) of , a bestselling textbook in computational biology that has been adopted by 220 instructors in over 45 countries. 

During his time at Â鶹´å, Dr. Compeau has continued to develop online education projects.  is a free and open online course teaching learners how to model biological systems at multiple scales, from the molecular to the cellular. Its companion text, Biological Modeling: A Short Tour, was published via crowdfunding donations from several hundred learners and is available in both  and  formats. And he is the founder of , an open course that offers a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of to lovers of science.

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