About

Tiffani L. Williams is a Teaching Professor and Director of Onramp Programs in the Department of Computer Science, and a Dean’s Fellow in Inclusion, Belonging, and Engagement in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a background in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computational Phylogenetics, Computers and Education, and High-Performance Computing.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Data Mining
• Mathematics
• Computational biology
• Geometry
• Genetics
• Psychology
• Biology
• Computer graphics (images)
• Mathematics education
• Applied mathematics
• Mathematical optimization
• Evolutionary biology
• Database
• Human–computer interaction

Selected publications

• Tree House Explorer: A Novel Genome Browser for Phylogenomics

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2022 · 9 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Data Mining
  • Biology

  Tree House Explorer (THEx) is a genome browser that integrates phylogenomic data and genomic annotations into a single interactive platform for combined analysis. THEx allows users to visualize genome-wide variation in evolutionary histories and genetic divergence on a chromosome-by-chromosome basis, with continuous sliding window comparisons to gene annotations (GFF/GTF), recombination rates, and other user-specified, highly customizable feature annotations. THEx provides a new platform for interactive phylogenomic data visualization to analyze and interpret the diverse evolutionary histories woven throughout genomes. Hosted on Conda, THEx integrates seamlessly into new or pre-existing workflows.

  DOI

• The lives of hidden figures matter in computer science education

  Communications of the ACM · 2022 · 3 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computer graphics (images)

  "I cannot work on what I cannot see…" ---Katherine Goble, Hidden Figures

  DOI

• Path-Following Interior Point Method With Improved Iteration Bounds For Monotone Linear Complementarity Problem

  2020

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematical optimization

Recent grants

• III-CTX: Large-Scale Analysis of Collections of Phylogenetic Trees

  NSF · $424k · 2007–2011

• III: Small: Collaborative: Novel Techniques for Understanding Convergence in Large-Scale Markov Chain Monte Carlo Phylogenetic Analyses

  NSF · $397k · 2010–2013

• Collaborative research: Automated and community-driven synthesis of the tree of life

  NSF · $300k · 2012–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Karen Cranston

  University Health Network

  662 shared

• Tanja Stadler

  Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology

  655 shared

• Vincent Savolainen

  Imperial College London

  654 shared

• John J. Schenk

  Ohio University

  654 shared

• Stacey Smith

  654 shared

• Alexei J. Drummond

  University of Auckland

  654 shared

• Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  Field Museum of Natural History

  654 shared

• Thomas R. Buckley

  Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

  654 shared

Awards & honors

• McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
• Alfred P. Sloan Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Edward, Frances, and Shirley Daniels Fellowship at the Radcl…
• Denice Denton Emerging Leader ABIE award
• PopTech Science Fellow award

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