Bio: Melanie Moses

Melanie E. Moses is a Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the University of New Mexico and an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute. She earned a B.S. from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems and a Ph.D. in Biology from UNM. Her interdisciplinary research crosses the boundaries of Computer Science and Biology by modeling search processes in complex adaptive systems such as ants collecting food and immune systems responding to viral infection. Her bio-inspired approach to computation has built of swarms of ant-like robots that autonomously cooperate to forage for resources, and bird-like UAVs that monitor environmental conditions, including gas emissions from volcanoes. 

Melanie has mentored dozens of graduate and undergraduate students, and led NM CSforAll and the NASA Swarmathon to engage thousands of students in computer science from high school through graduate school. She co-founded the UNM-SFI Working Group on Algorithmic Justice and is on the leadership team of the UNM ADVANCE program to support faculty success. She currently serves on the Computing Research Association's Widening Participation board, is an Advisor to the Vice President for Research for Artificial Intelligence and chairs the New Mexico AI Consortium.

For more information see https://moseslab.cs.unm.edu/.