About

Firas Khatib is interested in engaging the public to help us solve difficult scientific problems, such as harnessing the collective brainpower of humans worldwide to tackle critical problems posed in computational biology. Since 2008, Firas has been the lead scientist on the protein folding citizen science game Foldit. The long term goal of this citizen science project is to utilize the combined power of humans and computers in order to build accurate models of disease-related proteins by introducing a new approach: distributed computing driven by human intuition.

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Foldit is a one-of-a-kind protein folding computer game developed by university scientists.

Organizational Affiliations

Department of Computer and Information Science, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Past Affiliations

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington (United States, Seattle) - UW

Education

Bioinformatics
2002–2008, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Santa Cruz (United States, Santa Cruz) - UCSC
Applied Mathematics
1997–2001, Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of California, Berkeley (United States, Berkeley) - UCB