BIN-RDI Leadership

Dr. Richard Hughey, BIN-RDI Director

Richard Hughey

Richard Hughey is Director of the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI).  As a faculty member in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he is Chair of the B.S. in Bioengineering, and a Professor of Computer Engineering and of Biomolecular Engineering. His research interests include high-performance computing and bioinformatics. He is co-creator of the SAM sequence analysis package. In collaboration with Roberto Manduchi, he leads SURF-IT, a 9-week summer undergraduate research program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  Prior to becoming Director of the BIN-RDI, he served as Chair of Computer Engineering, Vice Chair of Biomolecular Engineering, chair of the faculty committee responsible for undergraduate education, and chair of the faculty committee responsible for undergraduate admissions and financial aid. He led development of UCSC's B.S. in Bioengineering, and helped create the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs in Bioinformatics and the Department of Biomolecular Engineering. In 2008 he received a UCSC Chancellor's Achievement Award for Diversity in recognition of his work within the Baskin School of Engineering. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is a member and UCSC chapter advisor of the Society of Women Engineers and of Tau Beta Pi, and is member and UCSC chapter president of Phi Beta Kappa. He received the B.A. in Mathematics and B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College, and the Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University.