Co-host
Alex Feltus, Ph.D.
Alex is Professor in Clemson University’s Dept. of Genetics & Biochemistry and co-founder of Praxis AI. He has performed research in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, cyberinfrastructure, network biology, genome assembly, systems genetics, and bioenergy feedstock genetics. Feltus has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, released open-source software, and taught undergrad and PhD students in bioinformatics, biochemistry, and genetics. He is funded by multiple NSF grants and is engaged in tethering together extremely smart people from diverse technical backgrounds to propel genomics research from the Excel-scale into the Exascale.