Phillip Compeau is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Assistant Department Head for Education in the Computational Biology Department in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He directs the undergraduate program in computational biology, co-directs the Precollege Program in Computational Biology, and serves as Assistant Director of the Master's in Computational Biology program (http://www.cmu.edu/ms-compbio/). He is the co-author of Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach (http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.org).

Phillip co-created the first massive open online course (MOOC) in bioinformatics, which has grown into the Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/specializati...). He also co-founded Rosalind (http://rosalind.info), an online platform for learning bioinformatics that has reached tens of thousands of learners around the world.

Phillip is also the founder of Programming for Lovers (http://compeau.cbd.cmu.edu/programmin...), a free online course in introductory programming motivated by fun scientific applications.