Faruck Morcos is an assistant professor in the 
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also member of the Center for Systems Biology at UT Dallas. Before starting his lab at UT Dallas, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, first at the University of California San Diego and later at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (Computational Biology) from the University of Notre Dame. He also holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Notre Dame. He has a B.S. (Honors) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from ITESM Campus Monterrey. In 2010, he received the Research Excellence Award given by the Computer Science Department at the University of Notre Dame. In 2005, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies awarded him the Kellogg Fellowship for Graduate Studies at the University of Notre Dame and in 2002 he received the Werner von Siemens Excellence Award to pursue graduate studies in Germany. His research focuses on applications of information theory, statistical inference and physical modeling to study molecular structure, function and interactions. His current interests include molecular coevolution and the analysis of biological information to study disease.
