Tarjei Mikkelsen is an accomplished software engineer who has designed and implemented medical applications in India, South Africa and the United States. He has previously worked at HP's Cambridge Research Laboratory and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Tarjei is pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. There his research focuses on comparative genomics and in 2005 he was lead author on a seminal study in Nature on the comparative sequencing of the chimpanzee and human genomes. Tarjei holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in biomedical engineering from MIT. |