Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering
Lead Scientist and Research Computational Biologist, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
taner@berkeley.edu
For more information, see: https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/
Research Interests
Dr. Sen is the Director (Lead Scientist) of the GrainGenes database, which is the USDA’s flagship centralized database for wheat, barley, rye, and oat data. Dr. Sen’s research interests are (1) biological data management and sharing using the FAIR principles, (2) the analysis of genomes, protein structures, and protein and gene networks using bioinformatics and machine learning, and (3) development of web -based tools to serve research communities.
Education
2003 PhD Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, OH
1998 MS Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey
1996 BS Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey
Professional Experience
2016-present Lead Scientist and Research Computational Biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
2022-present Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2007-2021 Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology & Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University
2007-2016 Computational Biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
2003-2007 Postdoc, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University