Erich Baker
Professor
Baylor University
United States
Biography
Dr. Erich Baker is a Professor of Bioinformatics, in the Department of Computer Science. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, a M.S. in Biomedical Science in 1996 from Barry University and a Ph.D. in Comparative and Experimental Medicine from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before coming to Baylor in 2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Genome Annotation and System Modeling Group.
Research Interest
Dr. Baker research interests include areas of bioinformatics, data analytics, and distributed database design. He has published in areas of systems biology, functional genomics, and distributed analysis systems, where he has aided in the development of several large-scale analysis systems, including GeneWeaver.org and the MATRR resource. His research has been supported by NIH, NSF, DoE and DoD grants.