
Stephanie Forrest’s unique integration of computation, biology and health
Bridging skills in biology and computation is producing knowledge to help provide solutions in numerous science and engineering endeavors. Stephanie Forrest’s team at ASU’s Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society is tackling challenges including modeling of immunological processes and evolutionary diseases, cybersecurity, software engineering and evolutionary computation. A professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Futon Schools, Forrest describes efforts to detect and mount defenses against malicious behavior across a wide range of complex systems to help thwart threats from malware, misinformation and similar ways of posing myriad dangers to society.