Mandy Wilson is a senior research scientist at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia; prior to that, she was an employee of the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech from 2008 - 2018. Wilson has had a broad range of work experiences, including custom software development for the federal government and the private sector. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees at Virginia Tech. Wilson’s primary interests are database architectures and data mining, but she is also an expert in graphical user interface design, web development, and the design and development of other custom software. She worked as a computational synthetic biologist at the Biocomplexity Institute, developing software to support genomic design and sequencing verification. Wilson was also one of the original editors of the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) standard, which is a markup language for exchanging genomic data; more on this can be reviewed at http://sbolstandard.org.

Research Interests

Synthetic biology, modeling behavior on social media, epidemiology, database architecture, and data mining

Education

Virginia Tech, English, M.A., 1994 
Virginia Tech, Computer Science, B.S., 1992 
Virginia Tech, English, B.A., 1991