Dr. Todd J. Treangen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rice University and leads the Ken Kennedy Institute AI and Computational Biology for Health Cluster (AI2Health, https://kenkennedy.rice.edu/ai-and-computational-biology-for-health). Dr. Treangen's research group at Rice University (www.treangenlab.com) focuses on developing computational approaches and open-source software tools to address unsolved challenges in microbial genomics and metagenomics. Dr. Treangen received an NSF CAREER award in 2023, focused on building a computational platform for detecting previously unseen microbial pathogens.