Wendy K. Tam

Biography

Wendy K. Tam is Professor of Computer Science, Political Science, Law, and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, an affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Professional Researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. She has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Society for Political Methodology, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford).

Prof. Tam's general research interests are in the development of computational and statistical models across varied applications. Her research is driven by a desire to discover creative and important ways for societal advances to march alongside scientific and technological innovation. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, capitalizing on the strengths of many individual disciplines by recognizing and integrating them into a collective approach. Her aim is to harness the power of information by developing statistical and mathematical models to guide computing technology toward intelligent information extraction.