Mona Singh (scientist)


Mona Singh is a Professor of Computer Science in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.

Education

Singh was educated at Indian Springs School, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was awarded a PhD in 1996 for research supervised by Ron Rivest and Bonnie Berger.

Career and research

Singh's research interests are in computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics and their interfaces with machine learning and algorithms.

Awards and honors

Singh was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation in 2001. She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2018 for “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.
She was elected an ACM Fellow in 2019 “for contributions to computational biology, spearheading algorithmic and machine learning approaches for characterizing proteins and their interactions”.