Taher Mun successfully completed his Ph.D. defense on 12/16. His thesis is titled “Using Pan-Genomic Data Structures to Incorporate Diversity Into Genomic Analyses” and spans his work on the r-index, reference flow, liftover of alignments, and the novel “marker array” structure to perform genotyping.

After graduation, Taher will join Illumina, Inc. in San Diego, CA as a Bioinformatics Scientist.

Huge congrats to Taher!!