Tandy Warnow

Tandy Warnow is an American computer scientist who holds the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a doctorate in 1991 under Eugene Lawler. She is known for her work on reconstructing evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and on methods for multiple sequence alignment. Her software includes SATé and PASTA for estimating alignments and trees together, and the species tree method ASTRAL. In 1995 she joined Donald Ringe and Ann Taylor in a perfect phylogeny analysis of the Indo-European languages. She was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 and of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2017.